Israeli air strikes kill 22 women and children in Rafah
Israeli air strikes continue virtually every day as the Netanyahu regime prepares for an imminent ground assault on the southern Gazan city of Rafah.
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The Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
The lecture by Nick Beams on April 28 will provide the political weapons required by young people and workers who want to take up the fight for a socialist and revolutionary perspective against the genocide and the broader eruption of militarism and war.
Israel’s Arab allies fear repercussions of the escalating war with Iran
The pleas from the semi-feudal Arab regimes for “caution” and “restraint” testify above all to their fears of an explosion from below. They point to the fundamental “polarity” between all factions of the bourgeoisie and the working class on which the struggle against war must be based.
Jean Shaoul•
UN Rapporteur: Australian government is “aiding and abetting” genocide in Gaza
Labor’s attempts to dupe the population by denying its active complicity in the Gaza genocide are running up against reality.
Oscar Grenfell•
After murder of aid workers, Australian government tries to hide its complicity in Gaza genocide
Labor’s response amounts to finger wagging and theatrics, combined with a restatement of unconditional support for Israel’s onslaught against Palestinians in Gaza.
Oscar Grenfell•
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Martin Scott, Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Put the SEP on the ballot! Become an electoral member of the SEP! Take up the fight against genocide, war and inequality!
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Australian police rapidly declare Sydney church attack a “terrorist” incident
The rapid declaration grants police sweeping powers that override fundamental civil liberties and serves to heighten religious and other tensions among ordinary people.
Oscar Grenfell•
Thousands could be deported under Australian government’s draconian immigration bill
Home Affairs officials admitted that up to 5,000 non-citizens could face removal from Australia, a figure far higher than the Labor government’s earlier misleading statements.
Mike Head•
Mass stabbing in Sydney shopping centre by mentally ill man
What has been revealed already indicates that the attack was a horrific manifestation of the deepening social crisis.
Oscar Grenfell•
Australian government announces war-related economic policy
Labor’s “Future Made in Australia Act” would subsidise investment in strategic industries, all of which are critical for war preparations.
Mike Head•
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Martin Scott•
Mike Head•
Leith Smith•
Australian protesters oppose Gaza genocide: Imperialist powers are “not just complicit, but directly responsible”
“We need a party that sticks to a revolutionary line and doesn’t just advocate for reform, because whenever you talk about reform, it essentially means you end up capitulating to those in power.”
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Six months of protest: Australian workers and young people denounce Israel’s genocide and Labor government
“It’s setting a terrifying precedent for what the future could look like if we don’t resist, so that’s why I am here.”
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Australian doctor denounces Zionist witch-hunting of medical workers opposing Gaza genocide
“We remain undeterred and will continue to speak out against the systematic silencing of Australian doctors and the complicity of the Australian government with the Gaza genocide.”—New South Wales doctor
Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee (Australia)•
Thousands of Australian demonstrators protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza
“What I’ve learned through what is going on in Gaza is that even if the UN says ‘this is genocide,’ governments will not do anything.”
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Australian Labor government complicit in Assange extradition threat
The Labor government is doing nothing to obstruct Assange’s looming extradition to the US, where he would face 175 years imprisonment for exposing war crimes.
Oscar Grenfell•
Julian Assange and the fight against imperialist war
The World Socialist Web Site is publishing the text of the speech delivered by Socialist Equality Party National Secretary Chris Marsden and Assistant National Secretary Tom Scripps at public meetings held in Manchester, London, Inverness and Sheffield.
Thomas Scripps, Chris Marsden•
Australian educators demand freedom of Julian Assange
A group of teachers from the northern and western working-class suburbs of Melbourne overwhelmingly passed a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional freedom of imprisoned journalist Julian Assange.
Committee for Public Education•
The Assange case and the working class
The forces arrayed against Assange are powerful. But there is another, even more formidable force which has yet to have its say—the British, American and international working class.
Thomas Scripps•
Thomas Scripps•
Richard Phillips, Oscar Grenfell•
Thomas Scripps•
Mike Head•
Oscar Grenfell•
Oppose union-management cost cutting at Australia Post! Build rank-and-file committees to fight for jobs, wages and conditions!
The PWRFC warns that upcoming enterprise bargaining will be used by Australia Post and the Communication Workers Union bureaucracy to impose further cuts to real wages and clear the way for the slashing of jobs and conditions in the ongoing restructure.
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Western Australian school teachers to strike, first time in a decade
Amid a skyrocketing cost of living, the Labor government and the unions have enforced a public sector wage freeze.
Sue Phillips•
Australia: Teachers and parents outraged by NSW public school cuts
The cuts will accelerate the decline in enrolments, which began in the 1980s as the result of the deliberate weakening of public education by Labor and Liberal-National Coalition governments.
Erika Zimmer•
Australian Labor government seeks to delay nominal wage rise for aged care workers
The complicity of the unions in Labor’s latest move to deny aged care workers a long-awaited pay rise underscores the need for workers to build their own organisations.
Martin Scott•
Steve Strietberg, Martin Scott•
Mike Head•
Martin Scott•
Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee•
Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee (Australia)•
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.
IYSSE meetings in Australia and New Zealand: The crisis of political perspective of the Gaza protests
We encourage youth, students and workers to attend the events which will provide the international socialist revolutionary program necessary to end the genocide of Palestinians by the Israeli state and its imperialist backers.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)•
Oppose Zionist harassment of Gaza genocide opponents at the University of Melbourne!
Zionist activists from the Melbourne University Jewish Students Society have twice sought to disrupt IYSSE campaigns opposing the Gaza genocide.
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Australian students strike again to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza
It does not detract from the political importance of the student strikes to note that they have become smaller. Blame for this lies with the pseudo-left organisations who, at present, form the leadership of these protests.
Eric Ludlow•
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)•
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Australia’s National Defence Strategy outlines plans for war with China
The document explicitly names China as the target of a major military build-up, and unveils $50 billion in additional defence spending over the decade, on top of already record spending.
Oscar Grenfell•
Australia and UK ratchet up AUKUS war preparations against China
Backed by the Biden administration, the defence and foreign affairs ministers of the UK and Australia signed far-reaching new military and intelligence agreements in Adelaide on Friday.
Mike Head•
Deep rifts remain after Chinese foreign minister visits Australia
For all the attempts to claim that visit improved relations, none of the underlying issues were resolved as Canberra aligns with Washington in its war plans against Beijing.
Peter Symonds•
A year since the AUKUS submarine announcement: Australia’s transformation into a hub of militarism and war
The nuclear-powered submarine program is just one component of a far broader militarisation aimed at preparing an aggressive US-led war against China.
Oscar Grenfell•
Oscar Grenfell•
Peter Symonds•
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Peter Schwarz•
Peter Symonds•
Australian government, media silent on last COVID wave that killed one thousand people
While experts have pointed to the dangerous implications of the recent spread of the Juno variant, their statements have been ignored by the Labor governments and the official press.
Oscar Grenfell•
Australia: Queensland’s chief health officer calls for the scrapping of the term “Long COVID”
Gerrard’s assertion is part of the campaign by the political establishment in Australia to normalise COVID-19 with the claim that Long COVID is no different to the long-term symptoms of seasonal influenza.
Frank Gaglioti•
On the eve of Long COVID protest: An interview with Julie Lam, photographer and founder of MaskTogetherAmerica
Scheduled to address the March 15 protest by Long COVID patients at the Lincoln Memorial, Julie Lam speaks with the WSWS.
Benjamin Mateus•
Massive study confirms safety profile of COVID-19 vaccines
A study on 93 million individuals worldwide who received one of the major COVID-19 vaccines confirmed existing knowledge about the safety profile of these vaccines.
Bill Shaw•
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Oscar Grenfell•
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Chris Gordon•
Benjamin Mateus•
Put a socialist, anti-war party on the ballot! Join the SEP (Australia) as an electoral member today!
Socialist Equality Party assistant national secretary Max Boddy calls on workers and young people in Australia to sign up as an SEP electoral member.
Apply for electoral membership of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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.
Our party fights for:
● Social equality for all!
● 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.
Fill out this form to apply to join the SEP as an Electoral Member.
Membership is free.
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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VIDEO: Workers and young people sign up to put the SEP (Australia) on the ballot
“The Socialist Equality Party are the only ones presenting an alternative to capitalism, imperialism, genocide and the normalisation of mass death.”
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Long-time Australian Labor Party member resigns to become SEP electoral member
A retired nurse and longtime Labor Party member explains why he has quit that party to join the Socialist Equality Party as an electoral member.
Mike Head•
VIDEO: Australian workers explain why they’ve joined the SEP as electoral members
“If ever there’s a war, it’s the working class who gets sent off to be killed.”
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Australia: SEP electoral members call on workers and youth to help put a socialist anti-war party on the ballot
“They’re trying to make it harder for minority parties to exist—it’s crazy. I’m for our voices being heard, normal people, not the billionaires sponsoring all the other parties.”
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Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
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Oscar Grenfell•
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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.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
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.