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.
Our party fights for:
● Social equality for all!
● An immediate end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
● An end to all militarism and war.
● 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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This campaign is essential to ensure that the Socialist Equality Party’s name appears on the ballot papers for the next federal election, as the only party fighting for the socialist alternative to capitalist barbarism, war, inequality and dictatorship.
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.
Under the guise of placing limits on political donations by the wealthy, the legislation will erect onerous fund-raising and bureaucratic hurdles for smaller parties.
The Labor governments in NSW and Victoria are going on a rampage in a bid to stamp out mass opposition to the Gaza genocide and the federal government’s complicity in the Israeli onslaught.
In a staggering rebuff, the Tasmanian Liberal government lost a quarter of its primary votes, yet Labor remained on a near record low of about 29 percent, leaving both far short of forming a majority government.
“What’s happening in Gaza is part of a growing world war. The western countries, including Australia, are all complicit in the [Gaza] genocide.”
“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.
“If ever there’s a war, it’s the working class who gets sent off to be killed.”
SEP Assistant National Secretary Max Boddy launches electoral registration campaign in Sydney
The SEP is fighting to provide the working class with a political voice, in opposition to the pro-genocide, pro-war Labor government and political establishment.
As part of the fight to build the necessary socialist leadership in the working class, the SEP is boldly campaigning for electoral registration. By securing 1,500 electoral members, the SEP will again be allowed to stand in federal elections with its party name appearing on the ballot.
SEP Assistant National Secretary Max Boddy warns, “Children, almost all unvaccinated, are being recklessly sent back to school, risking infection, illness and death to force their parents back to work.”
“The 200 richest people in Australia increased their wealth by 40 percent, from $341.8 billion in May 2019 to $479.6 billion in May this year.”
IYSSE members explain that the environmental crisis is a product of the capitalist system, and its subordination of all aspects of life to the profit interests of a tiny corporate elite.
“Health workers are rightly angry. They have witnessed decades of gutted health budgets that they are expected to compensate for with their intolerable workloads and hours.”
On 15 March, several thousand people protested in the German city of Cologne against the recent massacres of members of the Alawite minority in Syria.
The agreement provides for the integration of the armed forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces and the de facto autonomous administration under its control with the Damascus regime. It is part of the efforts of US imperialism, together with Israel, to dominate the Middle East.
The killing of at least 745 civilians in massacres targeting the Alawite minority in Syria exposes the criminality of the NATO powers that support and legitimize the Islamist HTS regime.
The bitter experiences of the past century have proved that a progressive solution to the Kurdish question, which is intertwined with a deepening imperialist war in the Middle East and involves four countries in the region, cannot be found within the capitalist nation-state system.
The operation against the Peoples’ Democratic Congress, a coalition of nominally left parties led by the Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party, is part of a much broader campaign of repression.
Imperialist and regional powers are helping the new regime gain international legitimacy by giving the impression that it has put its al-Qaeda past behind it, and they are also endeavouring to gain influence over the country.
Since the Islamist HTS militia seized power in Syria, reports of excessive violence and executions of members of religious minorities have increased.
Socialist Alternative’s Omar Hassan is roaming around al-Qaeda controlled Syria, presenting its imperialist-backed takeover as an exciting new stage in a “revolution.”
Only the inquiry team and representatives from the Ministry of Defence have been allowed to attend the closed hearings, preventing the lawyers for the bereaved families, the general public, and the press from observing the proceedings.
The new administration’s first visit to Ankara comes amid an intensifying struggle for the partition of Syria between the states behind the overthrow of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by jihadists led by the al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
The appointment of trustees and other attacks on democratic rights by the government show that the renewed negotiations between Ankara and the PKK, which Ankara has been trying to suppress for 40 years, have nothing to do with the claim of “peace and democracy”.
The call, combined with various promises of economic and constitutional support to the Islamist regime led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a former al-Qaida affiliate, demonstrates how the imperialist powers intend to use Syria’s regime change to step up their war on Russia and prepare an all-out conflict with Iran.
When Green foreign minister Annalena Baerbock presented her “Guidelines for a Feminist Foreign Policy” in March 2023, we wrote that this project, as absurd as it is reactionary, was “ultimately about enforcing geostrategic and economic interests.” If necessary, this would also be done in “close cooperation with the most reactionary regimes in the world.”
The US is building a new $1.2 billion fortified embassy on a 43-acre site near Beirut whose declared purpose is to counter the “Axis of Resistance”, meaning Iran. Its scale, out of all proportion to the country’s size, is indicative of US geo-political interests in Lebanon, with its strategic location and newly found sources of gas and oil under the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
After the jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham took power in Syria, several attacks on the country’s Alawite and Christian minorities sparked mass protests.
Fidan’s visit is part of Ankara’s efforts to increase its influence over the future of Syria and the HTS leadership, and to eliminate the Washington-backed Kurdish forces.
Despite the rhetoric about a global war against Islamist terrorism, the US has long utilised reactionary Islamist groups in the Middle East and Asia. In Syria, it is partnering with a HTS regime that traces its roots directly to al-Qaeda.
The pseudo-left groups backed a war in which nearly 500,000 people lost their lives, nearly half of all the conflict-related deaths worldwide over the same period.
After the regime change in Damascus, while Israel was invading Syria and destroying its defense infrastructure, Blinken visited Turkey and Turkish intelligence chief Kalın went to Damascus to meet with HTS leader al-Jolani.
Politicians and media outlets of all stripes are celebrating the takeover of Damascus by Islamist militias, demanding a stronger role for German imperialism in Syria and throughout the region, and calling for the rapid return of refugees to the war-torn country now terrorized by Islamists close to Al-Qaeda.
