SEP (Australia) holds well-attended post-election public meeting
The SEP held an important meeting Sunday afternoon entitled: “After the NSW Elections—How to fight AUKUS, War & Austerity!”
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Public meeting: After the NSW Elections—How to fight AUKUS, War & Austerity!
The Socialist Equality Party Australia is holding a public meeting Sunday, April 23 at 3 p.m. (AEST).
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Australian by-election defeat highlights Liberal Party crisis
The Liberal disaster in the seat of Aston increases the reliance of the capitalist class on the Labor Party, which is currently in office across the country, except for the small island state of Tasmania.
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Australia: Labor minority confirmed in NSW election as new premier rejects calls for pay increases
An unstable minority Labor government in NSW is tasked by the ruling class with imposing major cuts to social spending and wages amid the deepest cost-of-living crisis in decades.
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Support the Socialist Equality Party in the NSW election! No to War! Lives before profits! Billions for healthcare and education!
The SEP is running in the NSW election to help build a revolutionary party of the working class, directed against capitalism, which offers nothing but social misery and an expanding series of existential crises that threaten the very future of humanity.
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Fifteen years on: The fraud of Australian parliament’s “stolen generations” apology
This article, published on the World Socialist Web Site five years ago exposed the hypocrisy involved in the parliamentary events, such as yesterday’s, hailing the anniversaries of the former Rudd Labor government’s “national apology.”
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Australian Greens split over indigenous “Voice” to parliament
Neither faction of the Greens represents the interests of working people. Both promote racial identity politics, which serve to divide the working class and cultivate a privileged Aboriginal elite.
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Ex-Australian prime minister Rudd appointed ambassador to US
Rudd’s nomination is another signal by the Albanese government of its readiness to align Australia more closely than ever behind US imperialism and its aggressive confrontation with China.
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Another #MeToo trial collapses in Australia
The collapse of the Lehrmann trial may be a further blow to the #MeToo crusade, but its proponents are just as likely to seize on another case to seek to revive their reactionary efforts.
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A call to youth throughout the world: Build a mass movement to stop the Ukraine war!
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality—the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Parties, the national sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International—calls for the building of a mass global movement of young people to end the reckless escalation toward World War III.
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Australian government, media join hysteria over Chinese balloon
The ludicrous campaign is aimed at fostering a pro-war atmosphere, and to legitimise the escalating US-led war drive against China, which is viewed as the principal threat to American imperialist hegemony.
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France and Australia to make artillery shells for Ukrainian army
The announcement marks a further significant stepping up of both governments’ involvement in the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine, and the resumption of closer ties in preparation for war against China.
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Australian Labor government spends $4 billion on weapons in three weeks
While there is no money for public healthcare and education, both in an unprecedented crisis, the war machine is being provided with a blank cheque.
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IYSSE (Australia) statement: Join the fight against imperialist war and for world socialism
Imperialism’s spiral toward a catastrophic nuclear war must be stopped. But to build an anti-war movement, youth and students must understand the root of war.
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Australian students and youth: “We need an anti-war movement because otherwise we won’t have a future”
“There’s been no greater time for the building of an anti-war movement. Capitalism has no answer to the needs of the population. All it has is austerity policies.”
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Speech to the December 10 IYSSE anti-war rally
The US-led war plans against China and the building of an anti-war movement in the Asia-Pacific
In the coming war, Australia is not some distant and uninvolved party. Australia and New Zealand have been placed, behind the backs of their populations, on the front lines of US-led war plans.
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Youth and students in Australia support IYSSE’s call for global anti-war movement
“I definitely support an anti-war movement. I think we need to do our part for society and to stop war. The way the world is, things aren’t going to get any better unless people like us do something.”
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For a mass movement of youth and students to stop the war in Ukraine!
The IYSSE—the student and youth movement of the Socialist Equality Parties, the national sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International—calls for the building of a mass global movement of young people against war.
The war in Ukraine must be stopped before it results in a global catastrophe. The interaction of NATO’s imperialist militarism, recklessly pursuing its global geopolitical agenda whatever the consequences, and the increasing desperation of Russia’s oligarchic capitalist regime threatens to escalate into a nuclear conflagration.
The fight against war and the global expansion of the ICFI
These remarks were delivered by Ulaş Ateşçi to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
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Greetings from the ICFI to the SEP (Australia) 2022 Congress
The crisis of bourgeois rule in Sri Lanka and the tasks of the SEP
These remarks were delivered by Deepal Jayasekera to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
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Greetings from the ICFI to the SEP (Australia) 2022 Congress
Upsurge in class struggle in UK and internationally: A harbinger of decisive revolutionary conflict
These remarks were delivered by Chris Marsden to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
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Greetings from the ICFI to the SEP (Australia) 2022 Congress
New Zealand ruling class prepares for war and social unrest
These remarks were delivered by Tom Peters to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
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Resolution adopted at the Sixth Congress of the SEP (Australia)
The COVID disaster and the political crisis of Australian capitalism
“The criminal ‘let it rip’ pandemic policies of governments—invariably enforced by the labour and trade union bureaucracies—have exposed the brutality of capitalism, and its readiness to sacrifice lives for corporate profit and private wealth accumulation.”
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Resolution adopted at the Sixth Congress of the SEP (Australia)
Build an international movement of the working class against imperialist war!
“The same contradictions and crisis of world capitalism are also propelling the working class into struggle, providing the basis for the building of an international anti-war movement.”
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Build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees!
A mass network of interconnected rank-and-file committees can and must serve as the foundation for the fight for the abolition of capitalism and the establishment of a workers’ government based on a socialist program.
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Free Julian Assange!
The ongoing persecution of Julian Assange is bound up with imperialist war, escalating online censorship and a broader turn to authoritarianism.
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Australian pathology workers form rank-and-file safety committee
“Our workplaces lack basic public health measures, including mask mandates and adequate ventilation, under conditions of the ongoing global pandemic.”
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Australian Gold Coast and Tweed Coast bus workers to strike against company ballot “offer”
The stand being taken by the Kinetic workers—their third strike in six weeks—is of national and international significance, and should be actively supported by workers everywhere.
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Australia Post meeting highlights corporatist role of Communication Workers Union
The state-owned postal service has entrusted the CWU with the task of introducing changes to the delivery model that will drastically increase the workload of postal workers and slash jobs.
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Rank-and-file committees needed at Australian universities to fight cuts, commercialisation and militarisation
University workers and students across Australia face intensified pro-business restructuring and integration into war research, as well as deepening budget cuts.
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Australian Labor health minister lies about COVID disaster
The Labor government defied and suppressed warnings in order to pursue a corporate profit-driven “let it rip” policy, knowing that many people would die.
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COVID claimed more Australian lives in first three weeks of 2023 than all of 2020
If the rate of fatalities continues, this year will be even deadlier than 2022, when almost 15,000 Australians were killed by the “let it rip” COVID policies of Labor and Liberal governments.
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Australian life expectancy declines as a result of COVID “let it rip” policy
As in the US, Europe and elsewhere, the fall in life expectancy is a historical retrogression reversing a decades-long trend.
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Facebook censors Australians Against Covid spokesperson Craig Wallace and a Sydney health worker
The censorship of Craig Wallace is just one example of the suppression of those opposing the murderous “let it rip” policies of governments and their false claim the pandemic is over.
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No record of Australian Labor government’s diplomacy to US about Assange
The latest revelation demonstrates that while occasionally making vague statements about Assange’s plight, Labor is continuing the more than ten-year record of Australian governments collaborating in his persecution.
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Australian PM says “legal action” against Assange should end
Albanese broke a longstanding silence on Assange, but his comments fell far short of a demand for the immediate and unconditional freedom of the persecuted Australian journalist.
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Lawyer Jennifer Robinson gives powerful defence of Assange at Australia’s National Press Club
The address was subjected to a virtual boycott by Australia’s official media, demonstrating its alignment with the state and with imperialist war.
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“Workers must fight to free Julian Assange!”—Will Lehman, candidate for UAW president
The case of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is critical to the interests of all workers, in the US and throughout the world.
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Fight the bipartisan attack on democracy—join the SEP as an electoral member!
In a blatant act of political censorship, the Socialist Equality Party has been deregistered. Nevertheless, the SEP will stand candidates in the federal election, if and when it is called, and conduct the broadest possible campaign for a genuine socialist alternative.
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Apply for electoral membership of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
The working class must have a political voice, which the ruling class through its latest legislation is seeking to stifle. The opposition to the dictates of big business and its political servants needs to be guided by a socialist program that puts the social needs of working people—above all their health and lives—ahead of the private profits of the wealthy few. The SEP alone fights for this perspective.
Our party fights:
● For a scientific program to eradicate the coronavirus pandemic against the criminal, “herd immunity” policies of the ruling elite.
● For an end to militarism and war.
● Against all forms of nationalism and racism and for the unity of the international working-class.
● For the social rights of the working class, including quality, free education and healthcare for all, and a decent, full-time job with permanent conditions for those able to work.
● For a workers’ government and socialism, that is a society in which the working-class democratically controls the wealth that it produces, not the banks and the billionaires.
Fill out this form to apply to join the SEP as an electoral member. The membership fee is $5 (waged) or $2 (unwaged/student).
Historical Foundations
The program of the Socialist Equality Party is of a principled, not a conjunctural and pragmatic, character. It is based on an analysis of the crisis of world capitalism and an assimilation of the strategic revolutionary experiences of the working class and the international socialist movement.
The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party was adopted by the Founding Congress of the SEP in Sydney in 2010. It traces the historical events and strategic experiences of the working class and Marxist movement spanning more than a century.
Principles
Membership in the Socialist Equality Party is based on agreement with its Statement of Principles. The principles of the SEP incorporate the essential experiences of the revolutionary upheavals of the twentieth century and the corresponding struggle waged by Marxists for the program of world socialist revolution.
Lecture series: Why study the history of Trotskyism?
The lectures, now all available online, reviewed some of the fundamental lessons of the protracted struggle by the Trotskyist movement for socialist internationalism.
Leadership
Crisp was a founding member of the Socialist Labour League, the forerunner of the SEP, in 1972, and has played a leading role in the Trotskyist movement in Australia for more than four decades. She was elected National Secretary at the Fifth National Congress of the SEP in 2020.
Max was elected to the position of assistant national secretary at the 2020 SEP National Congress. He writes regularly for the WSWS on issues facing asylum seekers and their inhumane treatment at the hands of Australian governments. He completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Newcastle, majoring in Aboriginal Studies.
Authorised by Cheryl Crisp for the Socialist Equality Party, Suite 906, 185 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000.