Our Policy Platform | Victorian Socialists Our Policy Platform The billionaires have had it too good for too long. London: Trinity Trust. He was born John Kane in Greendale, Victoria in 1882, as one of 18 siblings. Socialist Alternative has a long pro-imperialist record. Bernie Finn, the extreme right anti-abortion campaigner and former Liberal Party member, may also lose his spot. SA ran a smaller campaign, standing in the Geelong seats of Lara and Geelong and the Melbourne seats of Pascoe Vale and Broadmeadows. Mission to Seafarers, 717 Flinders St, Docklands. [29], Members of the party are involved in activist campaigns for a range of progressive causes. [2], The VSP did not primarily contest parliamentary elections, seeing itself mainly as a force for socialist education in the wider Labor movement. Victorian Socialists candidates Stephen Jolly and Sue Bolton. It is not just that the lead candidate Steve Jolly has a strong track record as a fighter and socialist activist. 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Women's movements were amongst the earliest and strongest opponents of militarism and conscription in Australia. Workers and young people seeking a genuine alternative need to consider the history and program of the only party advancing an internationalist and socialist perspective, the Australian section of the International Committee of the Fourth International, the Socialist Equality Party. Since Victoria retains the undemocratic group voting ticket system, the so-called preference whisperer Glenn Druery tried to maximise far-right parties chances of election to the LC by organising them to tightly preference each other, but none received a high primary vote. A socialist looks to the past to establish two pat ism underlay their socialist ideas; as a consequence, class terns of development: first, to trace the fundamental mecha struggle and revolution played less of a role than statist re- nism of the development of the means of production which formism (Pierson 212-239). Founded in February 2018, it is an electoral alliance of various socialist parties, organisations, community groups and trade unionists. Political parties. ], Subscribe to Socialist Alliance & Green Left newsletters. For eight years, Victorian Labor Premier Daniel Andrews has headed a pro-business government. They both have good socialist policies. While Socialist Alliance is withdrawing from Victorian Socialists, we remain committed to building democratic alliances that will help fight for anti-capitalist change in the unions, the environment movement, the campaigns for Indigenous and refugee rights and elections. This was smaller than 2010, when they scored 11.2% andin 2014, they scored 11.5%. Which is more active? The motion also noted that, the bulk of Victorian Socialist activity is confined to electoral activity, where it should be fighting around multiple issues the whole year round.. In 1907, the VSP, plus similar groups in the other Australian states, came together in a loose federal organisation calling itself the Socialist Federation of Australia, but this never became a functioning national party. Nah, the people in the Alliance who called themselves trots stopped doing that in the 80s. Socialist Alliance participated in the founding of the project because we felt that it could be a step towards a bigger and more united left, beginning with an electoral alliance. Whichever group wants to bring the troops home from adventures in murdering foreigners for the profit of the ruling class, and wants to make peace with nations which want to be independent of US imperialism hug them. There have been unity projects before: Socialist Alliance itself was born from one such effort in 2001. In council, they kind of just accept the narrow confines that councils typically do but do support local campaigns. With an area of 2,570 km 2 (990 sq mi) and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and the smallest in population apart from Bremen. Posted in State / Politics, That's Capitalism!, Trot Guide | Tagged 2018 Victorian state election, 2019 Australian federal election, Australasian Spartacist, Australian Communist Party, Australian Workers Party, Communist Party of Australia, James Robertson, Jim Robertson, Socialist Alliance, Socialist Equality Party, Spartacist League of . How else could Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull get away with his disgraceful attack on the Sudanese community, blaming them for gang violence? However,the lawswill divide workers and weaken the Better Off Overall Test. It is especially revealing that the group says nothing about the nuclear war danger. [8] Shortly afterwards, a group of independent members formed a caucus in the party called Socialist Unity. In Western Metropolitan, it received3.76%. Socialist Alternatives preparedness to use its numbers to restrict the democratic participation of independents in the Victorian Socialists means that Socialist Alliance does not believe that our continued participation in the project can be effective. The climate emergency gets worse every year as mass extinction events and irreversible biodiversity losses put our future in jeopardy. CEO salaries are up more than 40 percent in a year while living standards for everyone else are getting smashed. But the Daniel Andrews government barely sustained a graze, while the very vulnerable combined African community has been left reeling and open to further attack. Albaneses Labor government is committed to both offensives, placing the population on the frontline of a potential World War III. Sue Bolton, Victorias only other socialist councillor is the second candidate on the ticket. The Victorian Labor government looks set to be re-elected in a landslide. In return they have received some union financing, including, when the organisation was founded, $50,000 from the Labor Party-affiliated Electrical Trades Union. Colleen Bolger, a lawyer and activist with Socialist Alternative, is the third candidate on the ticket. [6] Formed in 2010, it describes itself as being "from the political centre". With the departure of Socialist Alliance from their ranks, their party looks very different to the one which almost won an Upper House seat in the 2018 State Election. Politics of Australia. Privatisation of Victoria's transport system has been a total failure, and should be reversed. In July 2022, VS Assistant Secretary and 2022 state election candidate Liz Walsh was the organiser of large demonstrations in Melbourne, protesting the overturning of abortion rights by the United States Supreme Court, as well as calling for expanded access to abortion and increased healthcare funding in Australia. It insisted that, avenues must be made available for members to be active outside of the electoral cycle. Around half of those were Church of England, with Presbyterians and Methodists being the next two largest . VS received the fourth-highest vote, out of 23 parties, in the Northern Metropolitan Region, with4.86%. [33][34], The Victorian Socialists claim to oppose "business as usual" politics, which the party declares has segregated Victoria into wealthy, well-resourced areas and less wealthy, under-resourced ones. He played a critical role in saving Richmond Secondary College from closure in the 1990s. Authorisation for electoral content by V. Miley, Suite 1.07, 22-36 Mountain St, Ultimo, NSW, 2007. If elected, we will move legislation to make the basic salary of all MPs no more than a 6th-year nurse ($87,000). Watch David Norths remarks commemorating 25 years of the World Socialist Web Site and donate today. . Other outer suburban seats were similar to Broadmeadows, with swings against Labor going to the left and the right. Authorisation for electoral content by V. Miley, Suite 1.07, 22-36 Mountain St, Ultimo, NSW, 2007. The main reason the Alliance left Victorian Socialists is because their only real claim to fame is having a councillor elected and if they had stayed, they wouldn't be able to really justify their existence. We have to change things. [36] In addition, the party seeks to cap the pay of Members of Parliament at AUD $87,000 per year, equivalent to that of a six-year nurse. Britain's reach extended across the globe because of its empire, political stability, and revolutionary developments in transport and communication. There could be a similar or worse result on November 26, possibly producing a hung parliament, with neither Labor nor the Liberals able to form a majority government. In a 2021 article, the organisations secretary Corey Oakley declared: Imagine if we had had a socialist in the Victorian parliament this last year. Victorian Socialists would have had a voice in the mainstream debate defending Dan Andrews from all the lunatic attacks from right-wing elements, while claiming to challenge him from the left.. There is so much that can be done to fix this state, if only it were run in the interests of workers, migrants, Indigenous people and the poor. Some of the anti-Labor swing went to the Liberals and the far right. It is exciting to think about how effective this campaign could become. Cameron remained its secretary until 1932, by which time the party was moribund. Victorian Socialists is an electoral alliance that is seriously trying to get a socialist voice into parliament, but at the same time, it is not a reformist party that thinks socialism can be introduced through parliamentary politics. Lots of people involved in the campaign are revolutionaries who are also involved in other socialist or activist groups like Socialist Alternative. KERRYN PHELPS: Why Independents are the teal deal Labor has underestimated just how difficult this cost of living and housing affordability crisis is for so many working people. 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The Victorian Socialists brings together socialist groups including Socialist Alternative and the Socialist Alliance, and individual activists, unionists and community organisers. And the politicians run Victoria like its their own private cash machine. The Victorian Socialists (VS) stood in all 22 seats that cover the two Legislative Council (LC) regions of Northern Metropolitan and Western Metropolitan. The Victorian Socialists serve a definite function, in seeking to channel workers and young people who are attracted to a socialist perspective, back behind the political establishment. Politicians are overpaid and out of touch. This work must be completely subordinate to the goals and tasks of the mass struggle outside parliament.. In Victoria and across the country, Labor and the unions are imposing continuing real wage cuts, as well as cuts to public hospital and health spending. At the same time, American forces are being prepared for war against China. They're slightly bigger in Geelong and have had to bus out Geelong members to campaign for things. I'd preference both above lab/lib/greens. The Socialist Party of Great Britain recognises only one fundamental social division in the modern worldthe division that exists between the capitalist class on the one hand, and the working-class on the other. Support for the two capitalist ruling partiesLabor and the Liberal-Nationalshas fallen to historic lows. Australian Greens Without a much stronger opposition, the racist backlash that the Trump era is trying to normalise appears to be gaining ground. Weve got to put politicians on a workers wage so that they live like the rest of us. At the end of the day, change had to be fought for by ordinary people not parliament. Of course the Greens should be doing this too but, as a party, theyre just not as convinced as we are that the system stinks. The Victorian Socialists is a state-based political party launched in February 2018 by an alliance of socialist organisations, trade union activists, left wing journalists and individuals. Over the past year he has spearheaded the profit-driven nationwide junking of all COVID measures, causing thousands of preventable deaths, widespread infections among health workers, teachers, school students and aged care residents, and the further buckling of over-stretched and under-funded public hospitals. Western military supplies went some way to preventing a rapid Russian military victory and the imposition of a puppet government in the early stages of the war.. Its policy proposals on various issueshousing, healthcare, education, public transport, etc.amount to reformist thin gruel. While Stephen Jolly will head the campaign, the ticket will also include Colleen Bolger from Socialist Alternative, and Socialist Alliance Moreland councillor Sue Bolton. 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