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 Biden administration is both providing political protection and supplying the weapons required for Israel’s campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
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.
The government is asserting that exposing the dirty tricks activities of Zionists, including those victimising supporters of Palestine, is a breach of privacy.
Peris was reading from the script of the most right-wing Zionist settlers, who claim a providential right to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians.
“Stop the Gaza genocide! Build a socialist anti-war movement!”—SEP (Australia) holds well-attended public meeting
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“They’re not all that different from the Liberal Party. Labor has become a non-labour party.”
“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.
Sunday’s protests occurred as the Labor government is escalating Australia’s role in Israel’s onslaught and the broader eruption of imperialist militarism.
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.
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.”
“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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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…”
Classrooms are at breaking point, with the worst ever teacher shortage fuelled by excessive workloads, real wage cuts, and mass COVID-19 infection.
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.
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
At an Indian-government sponsored conference in Perth, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong accused Beijing of a “rapid military buildup” threatening the entire region.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“Do not live your life as you used to live before COVID and ignore something that is present and killing Australians.”
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.
The SEP has launched an energetic campaign to register with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) as a political party. This will enable us to field candidates with the party name on the ballot paper in the next federal elections. We are currently excluded from this basic right due to anti-democratic electoral laws jointly rammed through the Australian parliament by the Labor and Liberal parties on August 26, 2021, which tripled the required membership number to 1,500. This is to block ordinary people from choosing to vote for a socialist candidate.
The working class must have a conscious political voice. Join the SEP today.
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● An immediate end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
● An end to all militarism and war.
● A scientific program to eradicate the coronavirus pandemic. No to the mass death policies of the ruling elite.
● Against nationalism and racism. For the unity of the international working class.
● Quality, free education and healthcare for all. A decent, full-time job with permanent conditions for those able to work.
● A workers’ government and socialism—democratic control of the wealth that workers produce, for human need, not corporate wealth.
There is no solution to the crisis confronting the working class except by ending the capitalist system. The slaughter being carried out in Gaza is the latest and most bloody expression of the drive by imperialism to World War III. We advance a socialist program that calls for the abolition of a society based on corporate profits, the establishment of democratically-controlled public ownership over big business, and the dissolution of the vast military-industrial complex.
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The Voice voting patterns demonstrate the intensifying hostility of working-class people to the entire political establishment.
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.
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.
“The Labor government is not working class, it is an elite group of people, setting up a puppet called the Voice.”
“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.”
“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.”
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.
The ongoing persecution of Julian Assange is bound up with imperialist war, escalating online censorship and a broader turn to authoritarianism.
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.
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.
The lectures, now all available online, reviewed some of the fundamental lessons of the protracted struggle by the Trotskyist movement for socialist internationalism.
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.