The rest of the swing against Labor went to the right 6.39% to the Liberals and 4.28% to Family First (which did not stand in 2018). Victoria must lead the way in the creation of a national, publicly owned power grid that provides cheap, reliable power and leads the transition to an affordable renewable economy. The Victorian Socialists began as a collaboration between Socialist Alternative, the Socialist Alliance, and individuals not aligned with either group. It is exciting to think about how effective this campaign could become. Just imagine a socialist MP turning the spotlight back on the government and bosses for their attacks on unions and their lockouts? We need wage increases and improved work conditions to fix the retention crisis, and funding for 10,000 new staff in state schools. [6] Formed in 2010, it describes itself as being "from the political centre". By running as a candidate, Bolton can harness support from anti-racist, Islamic, First Nations and disability activists. The Victorian Socialists office is located on the traditional lands of the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. Socialist Alliance accepted this limitation at that time as we could see that the initial greater unity displayed by Victorian Socialists made it attractive to other new and independent left individuals and forces that might develop it beyond its limited electoralist focus. of Austria-Hungary by Serbian nationalists in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914, rippled across the 1906 to 1914 was the time of Liberal Reform. [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. A faction of the VSP hoped to "bore from within" and win the ALP for socialism. 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. John Cain was the 34th Premier of Victoria. I think revolutionaries and non-revolutionaries can work together in the same campaign (like VicSocs), but outside of those campaigns, revolutionaries need to organise separately because that's the only way revolutionaries can build their forces. 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. Australian Socialist Alternative conference: In the service of imperialism, The pseudo-left Victorian Socialists in the Australian elections: Parochialism and parliamentary cretinism, Union sends Australian plasterboard workers back to work after 40-day lockout, The Syriza government in Greece: The pseudo-left in power. 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. We need a socialist society of equality, social justice and environmental sustainability, in which we can organise together to save our planet and reclaim our future. 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%). They both have good socialist policies. 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. Nahui Jimenez, 26 Victorian Socialist Lower House Candidate for Brunswick. A zero carbon economy by 2035. Why dont you join us now? A socialist in parliament gives the left access to resources, insider information and greater campaign opportunities. The Liberal Democrats and the Derryn Hinch Justice Party did not win a seat. The Victorian Socialists (VS) stood in all 22 seats that cover the two Legislative Council (LC) regions of Northern Metropolitan and Western Metropolitan. Socialist Alliance has been on the decline for a long time, particularly in Melbourne. Very scarce copy devoted to their god Stalin with Picture on front, and others 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. In the 2019 federal election, VS ran candidates for the electorates of Calwell, Wills, and Cooper. THE VICTORIAN AGE. Republican stalwarts are striking at the heart of the socialist movement in New York City the Queens neighborhoods represented by US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and . Claims the new IR laws willclosethe gender pay gap andstrengthen equal pay laws are welcome. jerome.small@victoriansocialists.org.au 0437 197 871 I'll call out every injustice, and stand with people wherever there's a battle against a system that, more and more, is rigged for the super-rich. While Stephen Jolly will head the campaign, the ticket will also include Colleen Bolger from Socialist Alternative, and Socialist Alliance Moreland councillor Sue Bolton. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. CEO salaries are up more than 40 percent in a year while living standards for everyone else are getting smashed. We invite all who wish to build a stronger, more united left to support this endeavour as a practical step towards building the socialist movement we so urgently need. As a socialist, I believe we should put people before profit, and I'm committed to fighting for that. Like other socialist parties, the VSP supported the "One Big Union" campaign advocating a united national labour movement, a campaign which led to the establishment of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. When the Construction Forestry, Mining, Maritime and Energy Union organised a return to work, accepting the companys below-inflation wage offer that the workers had previously voted down, Socialist Alternative trumpeted this as a victory.. Posted in State / Politics, That's Capitalism!, Trot Guide | Tagged 2018 Victorian state election, 2019 Australian federal election, Australasian Spartacist, Australian Communist Party, Australian Workers Party, Communist Party of Australia, James Robertson, Jim Robertson, Socialist Alliance, Socialist Equality Party, Spartacist League of . Victorian Socialists was established in 2018 as an alliance of pseudo-left groups, but now functions as an electoral front for Socialist Alternative. Socialist Alliance intends to run a full ticket in the Moreland Council elections in 2020 and will work hard to have Socialist Alliance Councillor Sue Bolton re-elected. The priorities of this system are wrong. define the dominant classes [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. Sue Bolton, Victorias only other socialist councillor is the second candidate on the ticket. [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. NUW organisers for the union to soften its approach successfully opened the way for union staff to campaign for the Victorian Socialists. Authorised by C. Oakley, Victorian Socialists, 54 Victoria St Carlton South, VIC 3053, VS Presents: A Socialist Manifesto for Real Change. Political parties. Under these conditions, the Victorian Socialists is hoping to join the political establishment as its left flank, trying to prop up lingering illusions among workers and youth in the Labor Party and Greens, including by directing ballot preferences to these parties and promoting them as lesser evil alternatives to the Liberal Party. Authorised by C. Oakley, Victorian Socialists, 54 Victoria St Carlton South, VIC 3053. Damien Marie AtHope's Art. 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. The Robodebt royal commission has revealed that lower level Centrelink workers were telling their bosses that the system was wrong and cruel. After a conversation in which we try and put 150-odd years of struggle into its historical context, they inevitably respond with: Yes, but dont you think youd be able to fight the right better if you were bigger and stronger?. The Victorian Socialists (VS) is a democratic socialist political party based in the Australian state of Victoria. Founded in February 2018, it is an electoral alliance of various socialist parties, organisations, community groups and trade unionists. The Victorian Socialist Party (VSP) was a socialist political party in the Australian state of Victoria during the early 20th century. This pro-imperialist record underscores the role of Victorian Socialists. Whichever group wants to bring the troops home from adventures in murdering foreigners for the profit of the ruling class, and wants to make peace with nations which want to be independent of US imperialism hug them. Under the business-as-usual politics of Liberal and Labor, Melbourne has become a segregated city: working-class areas are starved of resources while the wealthy suburbs get the best of everything. But Victorian Socialists do not even pretend to advance a program for workers globally. 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 . Weve got to put politicians on a workers wage so that they live like the rest of us. Join the SEP campaign against anti-democratic electoral laws! The Freedom Party, Angry Victorians and similar far-right parties scored less than 2% of the vote where they ran. That motion called on Victorian Socialists to: develop its organisational structures and sustain a more active membership. 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. Help us build the movement for a fairer, better and more sustainable society. [14][15][16] It also won the support of several local immigrant diasporas and community organisations. Legalise Cannabis looks like winningthreeLC seats. 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. Or demanding that public housing and public transport stay in public hands and not run down and privatised? We have to change things. In September 2019, following allegations of family violence, Jolly was suspended from VS pending an investigation, leading him to resign from the party. Politics of Australia. Seats that recorded big votes for VS were: Footscray, where Maribyrnong councillor Jorge Jorquera won9.77%; Broadmeadows(8.37%); Greenvale (7.15%); Brunswick(8.24%); Northcote (6.76%); Preston(6.28%); Laverton (6.36%); and St Albans(6.78%). Authorisation for electoral content by V. Miley, Suite 1.07, 22-36 Mountain St, Ultimo, NSW, 2007. Socialist Alternatives Red Flag declared in July: Imperialist [i.e., Russias] invasion cannot be defeated by pacifist methods. The Victorian Socialists brings together socialist groups including Socialist Alternative and the Socialist Alliance, and individual activists, unionists and community organisers. 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. These groups have all either taken office or propped up the discredited existing establishment parties, in order to suppress working-class resistance to the austerity dictates of the global financial markets. The Greens vote rose from 10.7% (2018) to 10.9%, not the widely talked-up Greenslide. In Broadmeadows, the combined socialist vote was9.47%, a rise of2.32%. Socialist Alliance Upper House: NSW, WA Lower House: Brisbane, Fremantle, Lilley Victorian Socialists Lower House: Calwell, Cooper, Wills: Preferences: As usual, the Socialist Alliance provides a fine barometer of which parties on the ballot are the most left-leaning. I'm Jerome Small, Victorian Socialists candidate for the Northern Metro upper house region in the November 2022 Victorian election. As we enter a period when the federal government has flagged that the working class and not capitalists will be forced to pay for the COVID19 crisis, Socialist Alliance remains open to working with all of the constituent parts of Victorian Socialists. However, small, socially progressive churches were amongst the strongest supporters of the anti-conscription campaign. The Victorian Socialists is a state-based political party launched in February 2018 by an alliance of socialist organisations, trade union activists, left wing journalists and individuals. Jimenez is a Mexican-Australian who joined the Campaign Against Racism and the Socialist Alternative when she moved . Cameron was an organizer from 1919 and edited The Socialist from 1920 to 1923. That followed exposures of rampant branch stacking, i.e., the fake inflation of membership figures by rival factional powerbrokers. . Support for the two capitalist ruling partiesLabor and the Liberal-Nationalshas fallen to historic lows. He played a key role in the community-led campaign to stop the East West Tunnel and, more recently, supported the Carlton and United Brewery strikers. Our Policy Platform | Victorian Socialists Our Policy Platform The billionaires have had it too good for too long. Socialist Alliance needs your financial support, Russia out of Ukraine! Other outer suburban seats were similar to Broadmeadows, with swings against Labor going to the left and the right. 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. Socialist Alliance councillor Sue Bolton will run with Steve Jolly and Colleen Bolger on the Victorian Socialists ticket in the November Victorian state election. With the departure of Socialist Alliance from their ranks, their party looks very different to the one which almost won an Upper House seat in the 2018 State Election. For these reasons alone, any readers living in the Northern and Western Metropolitan Regions of Melbourne should vote Victorian Socialists in both houses - and encourage others to do the same. [Jacob Andrewartha is a national co-convenor ofSocialist Alliance. Victorian Socialists was established in 2018 as an alliance of pseudo-left groups, but now functions as an electoral front for Socialist Alternative. 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. Take the following, from the private official paper of this weird organisation, the "Socialist Record" (Feb. 1913) : "I [the writer of the article, Mr. F. Edwards] know one branch of the Party which will not sell 'Justice' or the 'Clarion' because they advocate piffling reforms. Many VSP members joined the new party, but the majority, led by Ross, remained aloof. For example, Victorian Socialists propose not the expropriation of the banks but rather a state-based Bank Super-Profits Tax on the biggest five banks operating in Victoria at 20 percent of annual profits and the creation of a State Bank of Victoria that would supposedly lend according to criteria encompassing the interests of society as a whole.. Lots of people involved in the campaign are revolutionaries who are also involved in other socialist or activist groups like Socialist Alternative. Like most socialists, the party initially welcomed the revolution, but by 1920 democratic socialists such as Ross had become critical of the Bolshevik regime. 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. Wouldn't it be great if Jolly and the Victorian Socialists could use the platform to build the case for socialism by campaigning to defend workers rights, standing up to corporate power and racist scapegoating and giving voice to the social and environmental movements. This corruption underscores the true character of the Labor Party as a state-financed and trade union-backed bureaucratic shell, operating on behalf of big business against the working class. In July 2022, VS Assistant Secretary and 2022 state election candidate Liz Walsh was the organiser of large demonstrations in Melbourne, protesting the overturning of abortion rights by the United States Supreme Court, as well as calling for expanded access to abortion and increased healthcare funding in Australia. Meanwhile investment into new fossil fuel projects continues, despite the pretence of a transition to renewables. Not all projects are perfect. There is so much that can be done to fix this state, if only it were run in the interests of workers, migrants, Indigenous people and the poor. 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Most recently this was on display after the transnational giant Knauf locked out workers at its plasterboard plant in Port Melbourne. Left-wing independent Gaetano Greco received 14.38% in the seat of Preston and has a chance of winning the seat from Labor. 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. 1953. Victorian Socialists is an electoral alliance that is seriously trying to get a socialist voice into parliament, but at the same time, it is not a reformist party that thinks socialism can be introduced through parliamentary politics. In council, they kind of just accept the narrow confines that councils typically do but do support local campaigns. The Greens increased its vote to retain Melbourne, Prahran and Brunswick and won a fourth lower house seat in Richmond. Leadership aspirants said they would reverse that. They are likely to pick up two more upper LC, giving them three seats. Our gas and electricity infrastructure and services have been sold in the name of efficiency. There are lots of ways to get involved with Victorian Socialists in 2023. A socialist looks to the past to establish two pat ism underlay their socialist ideas; as a consequence, class terns of development: first, to trace the fundamental mecha struggle and revolution played less of a role than statist re- nism of the development of the means of production which formism (Pierson 212-239). Recent decisions have shown that Victorian Socialists is not open to allowing any groups of independents, for example, to develop its political life outside of elections. the woman question the victorian debate about gender summary. VicSocs isn't really a democratic socialists party it's an alliance of different groups to get a socialist elected. There have been unity projects before: Socialist Alliance itself was born from one such effort in 2001. I suggest you ask them if they support Australian military being in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and ask very pointedly if they believe the massive imperial propaganda campaigns against China, Russia and Iran. 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. Both Victorian Socialists and Socialist Alliance are running candidates. Its leading figure was Robert Samuel Ross, a talented organiser and journalist. Sue Bolton, Socialist Alliance (SA) Merri-Bek councillor and Pascoe Vale candidate, toldGreen Left that socialists received significant votes. The Literary Theory Handbook introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, showing them how to perform literary analysis, and providing a greater understanding of the historical contexts for different theories.. A new edition of this highly successful text, which includes updated and refined chapters, and new sections on contemporary theories During the state election, Victorian Socialists could get out 150 people to mass doorknock certain areas and get similar numbers to meetings. He played a critical role in saving Richmond Secondary College from closure in the 1990s. The Socialist Alliance condemns Russia's war against Ukraine,which violates international law and is a catastrophe for people in both countries. Western military supplies went some way to preventing a rapid Russian military victory and the imposition of a puppet government in the early stages of the war.. Join Socialist Alliance to help build a people-before-profits alternative in Australian politics. What are the main differences between these parties? . Most VSP members were also members of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), or later became members. 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. As of November2020[update], the party is represented in local government on the Maribyrnong City Council by Socialist Alternative member Jorge Jorquera. 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. The Victorian Socialists is a democratic socialist party that was formed in 2018 out of an electoral alliance of various socialist parties, organisations, community groups and trade unionists. Over the past year he has spearheaded the profit-driven nationwide junking of all COVID measures, causing thousands of preventable deaths, widespread infections among health workers, teachers, school students and aged care residents, and the further buckling of over-stretched and under-funded public hospitals. . Disgraced former Labor MP Adam Somyurek, who ran for the Democratic Labour Party, is predicted to win the last spot in the Northern Metropolitan region. Women's movements were amongst the earliest and strongest opponents of militarism and conscription in Australia. [3] Despite the Victorian Socialist Party's rejection of independently running in elections, the party did contest the 1908 Victorian state election. [10] It was officially registered by the Victorian Electoral Commission on 6 June 2018. The Victorian Socialists ( VS) is a democratic socialist political party based in the Australian state of Victoria. [2] However, after Tom Mann's departure in 1909, the party began to less strongly oppose racism. A 5-year freeze on rent increases. The micro-party's volunteers have knocked on more than 10,000 doors in the inner-suburban seat of . The far right failed to capitalise on the anti-lockdown/anti-mandate movement. Labor has underestimated just how difficult this cost of living and housing affordability crisis is for so many working people. 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