We recognise that the land on which we stand belongs to the Wurundjeri people and we participate alongside the Koori community in the struggle for land rights and self-determination.
We work for the creation of a society that encourages cultural diversity and we reject all forms of racial and ethnic prejudice, nationalism and patriotism. We are not patriots, we are revolutionaries.
We believe that the working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace as long as hunger, deprivation and boredom are found among millions of working people and the elite few who make up the employing class have a gross excess of all the good things of life. We advocate the abolition of capitalism and the wages system and their replacement with workers’ self-management of the means of production and the distribution of goods and services according to need not profit.
We believe that the state, like capitalism, cannot be reformed, and refuse to support participation in parliamentary elections on that basis. We advocate the abolition of all forms of government and the state and the replacement of hierarchical political structures with those based on direct, participatory democracy.
We reject patriarchy and fight for the empowerment and liberation of women, and in solidarity with feminist struggles. We believe that actively challenging the personal and interpersonal manifestations of patriarchy is equally as important as working towards structural changes. Both need need to happen together to create a new society free of patriarchal domination
We also reject compulsory heterosexuality and fight for the empowerment and liberation of queer, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex people. We recognise the revolutionary importance of queer liberation and its positive consequences for the liberation of all people to live much freer lives without coercion.
We recognise that our natural environment is under continual assault from the forces of capitalist industrialism and support its defence by any means necessary. We look forward to the creation of a free society in harmony with nature.
