Authorisation for electoral content by V. Miley, Suite 1.07, 22-36 Mountain St, Ultimo, NSW, 2007. The avowed purpose of the campaign is to get at least one Socialist Alternative member into the upper house of Victorias parliament, aided by second or third preference votes from other parties, all of which are horse-trading preferences with bourgeois parties to secure seats. Victorian Socialists, in particular, are the most zealous supporters of the trade union bureaucracy. Erroneously, though conveniently labeled "socialism," this formation based on parties advocating the interests of the male, skilled, industrial working class as an expression of progressive 8 CHAPTER ONE politics remained ephemeral in the United States compared to all European industrial democracies, as well as Australia and New Zealand. The Andrews government has presided over a state with the highest number of police in Australia, a hospital system in crisis, skyrocketing rents and mortgages, and inflation that is seeing profits grow even as the rest of us struggle to pay our bills. In 1907, the VSP, plus similar groups in the other Australian states, came together in a loose federal organisation calling itself the Socialist Federation of Australia, but this never became a functioning national party. Another articleWhat would a socialist do in parliament?written last month by Victorian Socialists candidate Colleen Bolger, likewise insisted that being elected would see a socialist standpoint injected into contemporary debates and would thereby help shift politics to the left.. E-Book Overview. The Victorian Socialist Party (VSP) was a socialist political party in the Australian state of Victoria during the early 20th century. In 2020, Socialist Alternative member Jorge Jorquera was elected as the Victorian Socialists candidate for Maribyrnong Council in Melbourne. Socialist alliance is a smaller party of trotskyist (-adjacent*) socialists that split from VicSoc after briefly being in there. Socialist Alliance participated in the founding of the project because we felt that it could be a step towards a bigger and more united left, beginning with an electoral alliance. Hug them tightly. Legalise Cannabis looks like winningthreeLC seats. [27][28], VS ran candidates for the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 2022 federal election, and subsequently launched a campaign to win a seat in the 2022 Victorian state election. All kinds of elites and defenders of the status quo stand united against this demon: presidents and megachurch preachers, Fox News hosts and Facebook censors, Wall Street CEOs . Authorisation for electoral content by V. Miley, Suite 1.07, 22-36 Mountain St, Ultimo, NSW, 2007. [6] Formed in 2010, it describes itself as being "from the political centre". Six months on from the Albanese government taking office, the conditions of life for millions of working-class people have worsened dramatically. This was smaller than 2010, when they scored 11.2% andin 2014, they scored 11.5%. During this long reign, the country acquired unprecedented power and wealth. The February 5 announcement in Melbournes Herald Sun that the Victorian Socialists an alliance of socialist groups will contest the Northern Metropolitan Regional upper house seat in the November Victorian elections flags a new, exciting opening for the left and progressive movements. Sign up Get Involved There are lots of ways to get involved with Victorian Socialists in 2023. Socialist Alliance delegates discussed global and domestic political developmentsand decided on directions and campaign priorities atits17th national conference. Both Victorian Socialists and Socialist Alliance are running candidates. A socialist in parliament gives the left access to resources, insider information and greater campaign opportunities. And the politicians run Victoria like its their own private cash machine. Political parties. Join Socialist Alliance to help build a people-before-profits alternative in Australian politics. The priorities of this system are wrong. Our Policy Platform | Victorian Socialists Our Policy Platform The billionaires have had it too good for too long. In some places like Canberra they're just exclusively reformists. Male-Homosexual (female-like) / Trans-woman (female) Seated Figurine from Gobekli Tepe. Stop deregulation and casualisation, and use every means to improve wages and conditions for workers. Good condition in wraps, back cover missing front loose therefor. The only criticism of the US military alliance is framed in nationalist terms, with a section on Militarism and Solidarity beginning, Australia faces no threat to its sovereignty.. Progressives need to support that campaign. The party that might have tapped this sentiment The Victorians imploded a couple of months before the elections. The Victorian Socialists brings together socialist groups including Socialist Alternative and the Socialist Alliance, and individual activists, unionists and community organisers. Candidates included the former Geelong Trades Hall Secretary Tim Gooden for the Western Victoria Region and local councillors Stephen Jolly and Sue Bolton for the Northern Metropolitan Region. In the 2019 federal election, VS ran candidates for the electorates of Calwell, Wills, and Cooper. CEO salaries are up more than 40 percent in a year while living standards for everyone else are getting smashed. The Committee for Public Education (CFPE), a rank-and-file teachers, parents and students group supported by the Socialist Equality Party, politically led the opposition to the sell-out. Colleen Bolger, a lawyer and activist with Socialist Alternative, is the third candidate on the ticket. Meanwhile investment into new fossil fuel projects continues, despite the pretence of a transition to renewables. We will also contest the City of Greater Geelong Council elections. The Victorian Socialists also support the introduction of a carbon neutral economy by 2035. Victorian Socialists are campaigning in those wards because the Alliance demanded that we do that when they were still part of VicSocs and now the Alliance is likely to just split the vote and make it harder to get a socialist elected into any of those. Inflation is skyrocketing, mortgage interest rates are soaring, and the COVID-19 pandemic is resurging, fuelled by new variants resulting from Labors let it rip policy of axing all safety measures. Victorian Socialists candidates Stephen Jolly and Sue Bolton. That means taking the power back and building a society that looks after working people and those who have been left behind. Join us for a discussion of the Victorian Socialists manifesto and find out how you can help get the first socialists elected to an Australian parliament for almost a century. The far right failed to capitalise on the anti-lockdown/anti-mandate movement. A leading influence in the VSP's formation was the British trade unionist Tom Mann, who lived in Australia from 1903 to 1910. In Victoria and across the country, Labor and the unions are imposing continuing real wage cuts, as well as cuts to public hospital and health spending. A zero carbon economy by 2035. As a socialist, I believe we should put people before profit, and I'm committed to fighting for that. Nevertheless, the combined votes of the far-right parties were substantial in Eastern Victoria Region (20.8%); the Northern Victoria Region (20.02%); and the Western Victoria Region(19.8%). Previously at the May 2 membership consultation, Socialist Alternative mobilised overwhelming numbers of its members to vote down a motion, which Socialist Alliance supported, from independent socialist members of Victorian Socialists. [8] Shortly afterwards, a group of independent members formed a caucus in the party called Socialist Unity. 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Now however, abstentionism has given way to its opportunist mirror-image, parliamentary cretinism, i.e., the desperate attempt to secure seats in parliament on a reformist, non-socialist program. Most VSP members were also members of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), or later became members. As a young man, he changed his name to Cain when he converted from Roman Catholicism to Anglicanism, though very little else is known about his childhood. This has not happened since the Communist Party of Australias Fred Patterson won a state seat in north Queensland in 1944, after several years of being a councillor. Now, we are aiming to get a socialist elected to Victorias parliament and the effort is being supported by two socialist organisations, some unions and many left activists. The ruling elite in Washington is seeking to shore up its global hegemony through military force. Their function is not to promote illusions that these institutions can be pressured to the left but on the contrary to expose their function as a vehicle of the ruling class, develop socialist consciousness, and promote the understanding that the working class has to build new organisations to take political power. It is running candidates in the Geelong region for the seats of Geelong and Lara as well as the seats of Broadmeadows and Pascoe Vale in Northern Metropolitan Melbourne. Rowntree's research into paucity appalled the nation, and came at the same time socialism found The assassination of Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand an outlet in the minting of the Labour Party. The Greens vote dipped by 0.6%. The Victorian Socialists serve a definite function, in seeking to channel workers and young people who are attracted to a socialist perspective, back behind the political establishment. At that time Socialist Alliance joined with Socialist Alternative and socialist Yarra councillor Stephen Jolly to recruit more than 500 people to secure electoral registration for state and federal elections. Without a much stronger opposition, the racist backlash that the Trump era is trying to normalise appears to be gaining ground. A 5-year freeze on rent increases. In this, the outfit is seeking to emulate other pseudo-left organisations internationally that it has previously promoted, including Syriza in Greece, Podemos in Spain, the Democratic Socialists of America, and the Corbynite wing of the British Labour Party. Its leading figure was Robert Samuel Ross, a talented organiser and journalist. Electoral Space [23][24], In the 2020 Victorian local government elections, the party fielded candidates for Darebin, Hume, Maribyrnong, Melbourne and Moreland, and a ticket for the Lord and Deputy Lord Mayor of Melbourne. 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