The following lecture was delivered by Peter Symonds at eight campuses in Australia, including in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Newcastle, and in Wellington, New Zealand to meetings organised by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality between September 26 and October 17. Symonds is a member of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board and the national WSWS editor for the Socialist Equality Party (Australia).
Meeting opposes ban on official registration of SEP, outlines socialist perspective for Australian election
Held in person in the working-class Sydney suburb of Bankstown and streamed on Zoom, the meeting was attended by a broad cross-section of workers, students and young people.
Oscar Grenfell•
Biased statistics and the rejection of SEP (Australia) electoral registration
The statistical method used to test party membership serves the political purpose of anti-democratic legislation requiring party registration: to shore up the failing two-party system by preventing parties such as the SEP contesting with their name on the ballot paper.
Peter Symonds•
Australia: Form rank-and-file committees to halt Labor’s demolition of public housing towers in Melbourne!
Despite the late hour, the demolition can and must be defeated! That requires mobilising the independent strength of the working class against the Labor government.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
Australia: SEP supporters express “outrage” over anti-democratic rejection of party registration
“To not allow the SEP to have a voice in our democracy is scurrilous to say the least and is anything but democratic!”
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Socialist Equality Party (Australia)•
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