Three days of workshops and panels, featuring local and international speakers. Online and in person at locations including Brisbane, Cairns, & Perth. Book tickets now!
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Andrew Chuter and Rachel Evans will run for the Socialist Alliance (SA) in the next New South Wales Senate election, with further candidates to be announced. The two long-term community and union activists were pre-selected at SA’s state conference on October 2.
Socialist Alliance is co-organising (with Green Left) the Ecosocialism 2021 conference on October 23-24.
The conference will open on the evening of Friday October 22 with a feature session on Capitalism is in crisis - ecosocialist feminists speak out. The session features Brid Smith (People Before Profit/Solidarity member of the Irish Parliament), Kavita Krishnan (Communist Party of India ML -Liberation), and Nilüfer Koç (Kurdistan National Congress External Affairs Commission spokesperson).
After more than a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, working people around the world have been suffering and victimized by the global capitalist system that failed to protect people’s lives and livelihood.
Some of the policies we are proposing that no other party is actively campaigning on include: land rights; net zero emissions within 10 years, bringing strategic monopolised sectors of the economy into democratic public ownership, restricting residential rent increases to the consumer price index, 30,000 new public housing dwellings in four years and; sustainable transport solutions as a better alternative to both Roe 8 and building an Outer Harbour.
The Facebook ban on Australian media sites is a demonstration of the power of the tech giants and a compelling illustration of why they need to be brought under democratic control.
Biden’s narrow win provides only some relief from Trumpite racism and all its associated dangers, because his political approach differs little in substance (as opposed to style) from Trump, institutional racism remains.
There has been a surge of support for socialist candidates in the Victorian local councils elections, with four socialists elected to three councils.
Online conference — October 24-25. Hosted by Green Left, with the support of the Socialist Alliance.
Postal ballots for the Victorian local government elections have started going out from the beginning of this week. We'd like to urge you to vote socialist if at all possible in your area and encourage your friends in Victoria to do likewise if you live interstate.
In collaboration with Resistance Books, Socialist Alliance has set up a new page on its website called PDFs for study & education