US vows to veto ceasefire resolution as Israel’s Rafah onslaught looms
The Biden administration is both providing political protection and supplying the weapons required for Israel’s campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
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The Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
Public meetings in Australia: How to stop the genocide in Gaza
The meetings, in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Newcastle and online, will discuss the revolutionary socialist perspective required to end the genocide and its source, the capitalist system.
Medical professionals under attack from Zionist witch-hunters in Australia: A conversation with Dr Zewlan Moor
Dr Moor is one of scores of doctors singled out by pro-Zionist elements for speaking out against Israel’s murderous ethnic-cleansing operation in Gaza.
Richard Phillips•
Australian Labor government pushes anti-doxxing laws to protect Zionist witch-hunters
The government is asserting that exposing the dirty tricks activities of Zionists, including those victimising supporters of Palestine, is a breach of privacy.
Oscar Grenfell•
Australian Indigenous leader Nova Peris promotes fascistic Zionism, calls for pro-Palestinian activists to be “imprisoned”
Peris was reading from the script of the most right-wing Zionist settlers, who claim a providential right to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians.
Oscar Grenfell•
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Jean Shaoul•
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Mike Head•
Patrick O’Connor•
“Stop the Gaza genocide! Build a socialist anti-war movement!”—SEP (Australia) holds well-attended public meeting
“What faces everybody here today is the question of joining our movement, building the party of socialist revolution, assimilating the essential historical lessons, and bringing this necessary socialist consciousness into the movement of workers and youth. Only through this perspective will there be an end to the bloodshed and imperialist war.”
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Australian government imprisons more refugees on Nauru
Labor’s anti-refugee crackdown renews the role played by successive Australian governments since the 1990s in setting global precedents for governments to shut their borders.
Mike Head•
Australia: Tasmanian state Liberal government implodes
The political turmoil in Australia’s smallest state highlights the decades-long and still-deepening instability of the increasingly discredited parliamentary order across the continent.
Mike Head•
Australia: No “resilient homes” in Northern Rivers until at least 2026, more than four years after devastating floods
A state Labor government plan for just 400 new dwellings in Lismore is too late for most victims, even if they could afford to buy land in the proposed housing estate.
Mike Head•
Bipartisan backing for Australian government’s war commitments and rejigged tax plan
There is a nervous closing of the parliamentary ranks in the face of intensifying discontent among workers and youth over the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the worsening cost-of-living crisis.
Mike Head•
Mike Head•
Oscar Grenfell•
Mike Head•
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Mike Head•
Medical professionals under attack from Zionist witch-hunters in Australia: A conversation with Dr Zewlan Moor
Dr Moor is one of scores of doctors singled out by pro-Zionist elements for speaking out against Israel’s murderous ethnic-cleansing operation in Gaza.
Richard Phillips•
Health workers prominent at Australian protests against Gaza genocide: “I’d never vote Labor again”
“They’re not all that different from the Liberal Party. Labor has become a non-labour party.”
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More health workers oppose the witch hunting of Australian medical practitioners for denouncing the Gaza genocide
“Just as the US—with Australian government support—tried to silence Julian Assange, so the Zionists are trying to intimidate and censor Australian health workers.”—Mental health nurse.
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More Australian demonstrations against Gaza genocide: “Protesting is not working, I believe we need a complete revolution”
Sunday’s protests occurred as the Labor government is escalating Australia’s role in Israel’s onslaught and the broader eruption of imperialist militarism.
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Book launch with David North and Evan Blake: Two works, on Trotsky and the pandemic
At an event in Sydney, Australia on Thursday, May 25, World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North launched his new book Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century. He was joined by Evan Blake, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States, who presented another new title from Mehring Books, COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic.
On eve of British hearings, Assange’s brother Gabriel Shipton speaks out: “This is Julian’s last chance in the UK courts”
Speaking to the WSWS, Shipton explained: “These courts are entirely complicit in Julian’s persecution and in sending that message to journalists, to publishers and anyone who wants to tell the truth, that if you reveal national defence information of the US, you will end up in jail and it could be forever.”
Richard Phillips, Oscar Grenfell•
London press briefing warns of dangers of Assange extradition
“Julian will be put in a hole if he is extradited. There is no doubt about that. He will be put in a hole so far and deep in the ground that I don’t think I’ll ever see him again", said his wife Stella.
Thomas Scripps•
Australian parliament passes a vague motion on Julian Assange
The House of Representatives motion did not call for the dropping of the reactionary US Espionage Act charges against the WikiLeaks founder, instead noting “the importance of the UK and USA bringing the matter to a close.”
Mike Head•
Alleged WikiLeaks whistleblower hit with 40-year sentence: A warning of what’s in store for Assange if extradition is not defeated
For allegedly exposing illegal CIA hacking and spying operations, Joshua Schulte has been treated like a terrorist and held in conditions akin to a medieval dungeon.
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
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Rank-and-file committees must be built at Australian universities against genocide, war, cuts and corporate control
In 2024, tertiary education staff and students face huge political issues, above all, the escalating Israeli genocide in Gaza and the rising danger of wider disastrous US-instigated wars against Iran, Russia and China.
Committee for Public Education•
Australian Labor government’s new workplace laws codify second-class status for gig workers
Amid an ongoing cost-of-living crisis and a global upsurge of strikes and protests, Labor is seeking to strengthen the grip of the corporatised unions and industrial courts over the country’s most oppressed workers.
Martin Scott•
Australian pseudo-left slanders workers, defends unions’ complicity in Gaza genocide
Defending the union bureaucracy, prominent Socialist Alliance member Tim Gooden described workers as ignorant adherents of the “Murdoch media,” whose attitude to the mass murder of Palestinians is “it’s got nothing to do with us…”
Martin Scott•
Australian school year begins amid unprecedented crisis of public education system
Classrooms are at breaking point, with the worst ever teacher shortage fuelled by excessive workloads, real wage cuts, and mass COVID-19 infection.
Committee For Public Education•
Martin Scott•
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Build the IYSSE!
Capitalism leads to genocide and war—youth and students must fight for world socialism!
The fact that genocide has been adopted as policy by all the major capitalist powers is a warning. Gaza is the test case, the imperialist powers are making clear that there are no “red lines” they will not cross in their struggle to sustain their hegemonic rule.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)•
Australian students speak out at school strike against Israel’s genocide against Gaza
“Governments around the world are not for the people. It is disheartening to see thousands coming out into the streets in Australia, but the government doesn’t listen.”
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Australian youth survey highlights cost-of-living crisis
A staggering 72 percent of young people aged 18–24 believe they will never be able to buy a home. 97 percent reported feelings of worry, anxiety or pessimism in the past 12 months.
Jason Quill, Eric Ludlow•
Australian school students strike against Gaza genocide, but pseudo-left advance dead end of protest politics
The pseudo-left organisers of the school strikes, including Socialist Alternative and Socialist Alliance, are seeking to suppress discussion of the fundamental issues of political perspective required to halt the genocide and war.
Eric Ludlow, Oscar Grenfell•
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European governments demand massive arms buildup after Trump’s threats to withdraw support for NATO members
The European powers have responded to Donald Trump’s threats against NATO members who fail to spend enough on rearmament with a veritable war hysteria.
Peter Schwarz•
Anger erupts in Iraq over US drone strike in Baghdad
On the flimsiest of pretexts, Washington has arrogated to itself the right to carry out murderous attacks across the Middle East, deliberately inflaming tensions throughout the region.
Peter Symonds•
Australia hosts Indian Ocean gathering to ramp up US-led confrontation with China
At an Indian-government sponsored conference in Perth, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong accused Beijing of a “rapid military buildup” threatening the entire region.
Mike Head•
US bases military “trainers” permanently in Taiwan
The deployment is particularly provocative toward Beijing as US special forces are now based on Kinmen, a group of fortified islands just 10 kilometres from the Chinese port city of Xiamen.
Peter Symonds•
Oscar Grenfell•
Jordan Shilton•
Mike Head•
Mike Head•
Oscar Grenfell•
The WHO and the inability of capitalism to prevent future pandemics
The international working class must assimilate the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, above all the inability of capitalism to organize on a global scale to address the current pandemic and prevent future ones.
Bill Shaw•
Australian experts warn of COVID surge, condemn absence of public health response
An ABC article, in which COVID experts were able to speak on the dangers of the virus and measures to prevent its transmission, was a rare breach in a general blackout of the ongoing pandemic.
Oscar Grenfell•
Study gives insight into post-exertional malaise in Long COVID patients
The study fills several gaps in our knowledge and helps improve our understanding of post-exertional malaise in Long COVID, confirming that patients with the condition get worse, not better, with exercise.
Bill Shaw•
Australia: Sacked Sydney University immune-compromised academic speaks out
“Do not live your life as you used to live before COVID and ignore something that is present and killing Australians.”
Chris Gordon•
Benjamin Mateus•
Benjamin Mateus•
Richard Phillips•
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Richard Phillips, Gary Alvernia•
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).
Defeat of Australian Labor’s Voice referendum highlights stark class divide, not racism
The Voice voting patterns demonstrate the intensifying hostility of working-class people to the entire political establishment.
Mike Head•
Indigenous Voice leaders denounce Australian voters
An open letter, issued by a privileged layer of indigenous figures who led the Voice Yes campaign, further highlights the immense class chasm shown in the referendum’s overwhelming defeat on October 14.
Mike Head•
Australian pseudo-left slanders population as racist after defeat of Voice referendum
Socialist Alternative’s analysis of the referendum is an attack on the working class, exposing this organisation as a rightward moving representative of privileged layers of the affluent upper middle-class.
Oscar Grenfell•
Australian workers oppose the Voice, call for better conditions for Aboriginal people
“The Labor government is not working class, it is an elite group of people, setting up a puppet called the Voice.”
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Max Boddy•
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.”
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
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.”
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
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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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.