Authorised by C. Oakley, Victorian Socialists, 54 Victoria St Carlton South, VIC 3053. It allows us to build unity by working together on a campaign. Socialist Alliance is hostile to the elimination policy advanced by the SEP and principled epidemiologists because it is oriented to the very political parties responsible for the mass social. But, even then, there were signs that the project may have a limited scope, as Socialist Alternative, the party with the greatest numbers participating, rejected proposals to invite other socialist groups to join. 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That followed exposures of rampant branch stacking, i.e., the fake inflation of membership figures by rival factional powerbrokers. Whether its the relentless attacks on trans people, the racist panics about boat people or African gangs or the attacks on Aboriginal sovereignty all of it is there to divide us and to distract us from the great robbery going on right in front of our eyes. It is not just that the lead candidate Steve Jolly has a strong track record as a fighter and socialist activist. The Victorian Socialists began as a collaboration between Socialist Alternative, the Socialist Alliance, and individuals not aligned with either group. Founded in February 2018, it is an electoral alliance of various socialist parties, organisations, community groups and trade unionists. However, the Greens vote grew in the seats they had already won and they won Richmond. Ross's two sons, Lloyd Ross[6] and Edgar Ross, however, both became prominent Communist Party members. The party that might have tapped this sentiment The Victorians imploded a couple of months before the elections. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Socialist Alliance delegates discussed global and domestic political developmentsand decided on directions and campaign priorities atits17th national conference. .Seriously: A Brief Guide to Surviving the 21 st Century (Revised & Updated Edition) by Danny Katch (Haymarket Books, 2023). 1/3 2:16 1.9K views 1 47 85 Show this thread Interested in @vic_socialists's Tweets? In 2012, Corey Oakley declared backing for US imperialist interventions, writing: The time for knee-jerk anti-imperialism has passed. In Ukraine, Socialist Alternative openly supports the pouring of US weaponry into the hands of the right-wing Zelensky government in the war against Russia, just as it agitated for the US assault on Syria. I'm involved in Victorian Socialists because I think getting a socialist elected means they could play an agitational role. I suspect hole #1 The Greens vote rose from 10.7% (2018) to 10.9%, not the widely talked-up Greenslide. 9 Even those such as MacDonald who dissented over the Fabian position on the Boer War did not depart from a vision of empire implicitly structured by racial hierarchies. Of course the Greens should be doing this too but, as a party, theyre just not as convinced as we are that the system stinks. [9], The party's formation was announced publicly on 5 February 2018. Founded in February 2018, it is an electoral alliance of various socialist parties, organisations, community groups and trade unionists. Authorised by C. Oakley, Victorian Socialists, 54 Victoria St Carlton South, VIC 3053, VS Presents: A Socialist Manifesto for Real Change. Every significant issue confronting the working class demands an international solutionthe danger of US imperialism triggering a third world war, the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, attacks on democratic rights and the danger of fascism. Weve got to put politicians on a workers wage so that they live like the rest of us. This pro-imperialist record underscores the role of Victorian Socialists. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded and pay our respects to elders past, present and future. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. But the Daniel Andrews government barely sustained a graze, while the very vulnerable combined African community has been left reeling and open to further attack. In 2020, Socialist Alternative member Jorge Jorquera was elected as the Victorian Socialists candidate for Maribyrnong Council in Melbourne. Authorisation for electoral content by V. Miley, Suite 1.07, 22-36 Mountain St, Ultimo, NSW, 2007. VicSocs isn't really a democratic socialists party it's an alliance of different groups to get a socialist elected. Our Policy Platform | Victorian Socialists Our Policy Platform The billionaires have had it too good for too long. A zero carbon economy by 2035. Victorian Socialists are wearing out their boot leather ahead of Saturday's state poll. Most VSP members were also members of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), or later became members. Every dollar our supporters contribute will help us get the message of people before profit to as many Victorians as we can. 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. We recognised then that in any new collaborative effort it is important to retain the political strengths of existing groups, and that this can be a challenge to balance against developing more united structures. Our gas and electricity infrastructure and services have been sold in the name of efficiency. Reasons Fiona Patten is unlikely to retain her LC seat. In September 2019, following allegations of family violence, Jolly was suspended from VS pending an investigation, leading him to resign from the party. Britain had become the most powerful nation in the world thanks to its growing number of colonies, however, with the industrial revolution, urban . The party achieved a vote of 4.2% in the Northern Metropolitan Region while achieving 7.2% of the vote for the lower house seat of Broadmeadows, in a field of four candidates.[19][20]. Engaging in a combination of grassroots activism and electoral politics, Socialist Alliance currently has two elected officeholders across Australia, all of whom serve on the local government level. We need to put essential services and infrastructure in public hands again where they can be used to benefit everyone, rather than just make profits for the few. No new gas or coal. The Socialist Alliance passes resolution that Labor'sIndigenous Voice to Parliament will be another token gesture, unless the government is forced by a strong popular movement to take real measures towardsFirst Nations justice. In other words, Victorian Socialists would function as a loyal opposition to the state Labor government. It's an alliance of many groups and individuals who want to achieve specific goal as opposed to a socialist organisation. Jagdish Patel from the Monitoring Group met with Prof Satnam Virdee to speak about his book 'Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider'. For many young people,the fact that modern Australia emerged from a colonial-settler society founded on the violent dispossession of First Nations peoples is a self-evident fact. In the 2018 Victorian state and 2019 federal elections Socialist Alternative campaigned alongside the Socialist Alliance to support the newly founded left-wing political party, the Victorian Socialists. [21] The party was registered at a federal level with the Australian Electoral Commission on 7 April 2019. 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. The Socialist Party of Great Britain recognises only one fundamental social division in the modern worldthe division that exists between the capitalist class on the one hand, and the working-class on the other. He was born John Kane in Greendale, Victoria in 1882, as one of 18 siblings. Leadership aspirants said they would reverse that. I'm Jerome Small, Victorian Socialists candidate for the Northern Metro upper house region in the November 2022 Victorian election. [10] It was officially registered by the Victorian Electoral Commission on 6 June 2018. But despite the whinging of the mainstream media, this will be no victory for the left. [30][31], VS ran candidates in the west and north of Melbourne for the 2022 Victorian state election, reportedly mobilising over 1000 volunteers for its campaign and knocking on over 180,000 doors. [36] The party proposes the creation of a publicly owned electricity grid, along with increased funding for transportation, healthcare system and public education, while removing government funding from private schools who have more resources than is necessary to meet the Schooling Resource Standard. [25][26] Socialist Alternative member Jorge Jorquera became the first Victorian Socialists candidate to be elected to office, winning a seat on the Maribyrnong City Council. [2] Party members such as Tom Mann and John Curtin took the stance of anti-imperialism and internationalism, while members such as Maurice Blackburn argued that Australia required a strong army to enforce the White Australia Policy. The Ukrainian people have a right to resist the invasion. In the state election campaign for Victoria on November 26, the Victorian Socialists organisation is standing 38 candidates in both upper and lower house electorates, representing the largest election campaign ever mounted by the Australian pseudo-left. of Austria-Hungary by Serbian nationalists in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914, rippled across the 1906 to 1914 was the time of Liberal Reform. The Victorian Socialists brings together socialist groups including Socialist Alternative and the Socialist Alliance, and individual activists, unionists and community organisers. In Mays federal election, Anthony Albaneses Labor government scraped into office with a primary vote of less than 33 percent, Labors lowest vote since 1934, only because the Liberal-National vote fell more. 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 trade unions are having increasing difficulty in suppressing breakouts of struggles by workers against crushing inflation and a corporate offensive, which has included lockouts of workers. While Stephen Jolly will head the campaign, the ticket will also include Colleen Bolger from Socialist Alternative, and Socialist Alliance Moreland councillor Sue Bolton. Socialist Alliance has been on the decline for a long time, particularly in Melbourne. 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