This report includes videos of speeches delivered by SEP members at the October 27 meeting, explaining the Labor government’s administration of the construction union and outlining a perspective to fight it.
The aggressive move, which could only have been taken with the full backing of the United States and other imperialist powers, demonstrates that the Gaza genocide is developing into a region-wide war targeting Iran with catastrophic consequences for millions of people.
Louise Adler provided a powerful exposure of the myth that the Zionist regime in Israel represents the Jewish people, and of the slanders that any opposition to its fascistic crimes in Palestine and the Middle East is antisemitic.
At least two former Labor politicians have joined the right-wing media in openly celebrating the Mossad attacks that killed 37 people, including two children, and maimed thousands.
The proposed antisemitism inquiry would provide a legal mechanism for censoring, silencing and criminalising anti-genocide and anti-Zionist views on all university campuses.
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The fraudulent charge of treason brought against Syrotiuk is aimed at intimidating and suppressing growing opposition among Ukrainian workers and youth to the imperialist-backed Zelensky regime and the escalating war against Russia.
“We need to stand with Bogdan now, because it’s easy to imagine the alternative: if Ukraine is able to imprison socialists and ban the WSWS without protest, what’s to stop the UK, Germany or the US, from doing the same?”
“The imprisonment of Bogdan and the banning of the WSWS reveals the outrightly anti-democratic nature of the governments which pursue and support this war.”
Mike Head urged listeners to support the global campaign to free 25-year-old Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk, the victim of a political frame-up for his socialist opposition to war.
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Former Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Bill Kelty has reappeared on the public stage amid a developing political crisis.
Regardless of the outcome of the next election, a historic crisis of capitalist rule is developing amid intensifying social discontent and political disaffection.
Taken together, these provisions would result in a wartime-style censorship regime not seen in Australia since World Wars I and II.
The economy grew by just 0.2 percent in the June quarter following a 0.1 percent rise in the three months to the end of March, while output per head was down 0.4 percent, its sixth consecutive quarterly decline.
This case is a major attack on basic democratic and legal rights, seeking to set a wider precedent to suppress any dissent against the escalating Israeli mass killings in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Lebanon.
The police crackdown, being coordinated at the highest levels of government and the state, marks a further step in the criminalisation of opposition to war.
Wong was to give a speech at the University of Tasmania on international relations and policy. Her speech was interrupted by protesters on about a dozen occasions.
Over the past week, authorities have carried out a series of attacks on protests opposing the genocide, which have the hallmarks of a nationally coordinated crackdown.
Beams pointed to the roots of the pseudo-left in tendencies that broke from the Trotskyist movement and rejected the revolutionary role of the working class.
The strike in Australia's most populous state shows that nurses want to fight cuts to their wages and conditions. But they are in a struggle against the Labor government and the union bureaucracy.
“I can’t sleep thinking about what would happen if I lost my job because I didn’t meet the standards a few times and my average wasn’t high enough.”
The company is also seeking to impose further real wage cuts for remaining workers at the facility.
An illegitimate and antidemocratic process was organised to suppress any discussion and scrutiny of the terms of the union-government agreement.
The past three months have demonstrated that the fight against Labor’s administration of the CFMEU requires a rank-and-file movement independent of the ousted union leadership.
While the two previous strikes were national events, this time, workers in Sydney marched alone, cut off from the majority of building workers.
“The government is going for the strongest section of the trade unions on purpose, for strategy. I think the goal is just straight-up austerity against the working class and this is part of it.”
The CFMEU bureaucracy and its defenders are hostile to the fight to mobilise construction workers against putting the union into administration, which is a historic attack on their democratic rights aimed at slashing pay and conditions.
On Monday, Julian Assange walked out of the UK’s Belmarsh Prison a free man, following five years of imprisonment and nearly 15 years of persecution by a cabal of imperialist governments led by the United States which hounded him for exposing their crimes.
The Australian government's involvement in the plea deal arrangements was the result of mass popular pressure. It followed years of Labor actively assisting the persecution of Assange.
The complaints have a pathetic character to them, but also underscore the fact that the assault on democratic rights associated with the persecution of Assange persists and deepens.
In a press conference, Stella Assange hailed a global support movement for creating the conditions for Assange's freedom, while warning of an ongoing assault on press freedom that had to be fought.
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.
At the working-class campuses of Western Sydney University (WSU) and Victoria University (VU) in Melbourne, the IYSSE clubs’ campaigns have been met with enthusiasm from students.
The result is an indication of a broad leftward movement among youth in Australia and internationally against the capitalist system, which presents a future of war, dictatorship, social misery, climate catastrophe and mass illness.
The university’s new policy mandates that members of the public outside the university will only be allowed to engage in demonstrations if they have prior approval from management.
IYSSE members spoke to workers at the plant about the necessity to build an international movement of the working class and youth to stop the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the danger of nuclear war.
A “hot mic” incident, in which Biden told the other leaders that Beijing was “aggressive” and “testing us,” underscored the real thrust of the anti-China summit.
The joint communiqué reveals the advanced preparations not just involving these two key American military allies, but throughout the Indo-Pacific, for a US-led war against China.
The militarist Labor government is directly responsible for the imprisonment of the courageous whistleblower and the draconian conditions in which he is being held.
Keating’s comments pointed to the real dynamic of the war threat, with US imperialism in decline and seeking to maintain its hegemony through aggressive conflict with China.
While authorities are downplaying the dangers of the H5N1 virus, it can evolve very rapidly and every spillover event into humans heightens the possibility of a variant with human-to-human transmission.
Amid an influx of patients and a surge in staff illness, authorities in some parts of the country have been forced to cancel elective surgeries and temporarily reinstitute masking in health facilities.
Australian hospitals and other medical facilities now determine their own COVID policy with only slight variations in their approaches to “preventing” infection with the deadly disease.
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.
Socialist Equality Party assistant national secretary Max Boddy calls on workers and young people in Australia to sign up as an SEP electoral member.
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.
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● 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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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.
What is required is the struggle for socialism, based on a turn to the working class, the social force whose fundamental interests align with reconstructing society to address the climate crisis.
The SEP has received an important initial response, amid widespread hostility towards the major parties and an anti-war politicisation fuelled by outrage over the ongoing US- and Australian-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.
“The Socialist Equality Party are the only ones presenting an alternative to capitalism, imperialism, genocide and the normalisation of mass death.”
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.
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.
