Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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South Australian election will resolve nothing for workers: Build a socialist movement against austerity and war!
The election underscores the absence of any alternative for working people within the existing political establishment.
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Stop the criminal US-Israeli war against Iran!
Australian naval personnel involved in US sinking of Iranian ship: Oppose the pro-imperialist Labor government and war against Iran!
The Australian Labor government is directly implicated in the war crime that claimed over 140 lives and in the broader barbaric US-Israeli war against Iran of which it is a part.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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7 March 2026
Australian Labor government sending missiles, warplane, troops to join illegal war on Iran
Labor is openly joining a war of annihilation against an oppressed nation.
Oscar Grenfell
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9 March 2026
Australian Labor government accuses Iran of “antisemitic” attacks to justify Trump’s criminal war
The revival of bogus claims that Iran orchestrated firebombings on Australian soil is the Labor government’s original contribution to the deluge of propaganda surrounding the illegal US-Israeli bombardment of that country.
Oscar Grenfell
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4 March 2026
Australian Labor government fully complicit in illegal war on Iran
This imperialist bombardment has nothing whatsoever to do with freedom from oppression, any more than the ongoing US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Mike Head
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3 March 2026
IYSSE (Australia) campus meetings: Stop the criminal US-Israeli war against Iran!
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)
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4 March 2026
Trump and Hegseth launch “total war” against Iran
WSWS Editorial Board
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3 March 2026
The war on Iran: How did we get here, and what must the working class do?
Socialism AI
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2 March 2026
Australian Labor government supports illegal US-Israeli war against Iran
Oscar Grenfell
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2 March 2026
WSWS emergency webinar articulates socialist strategy to stop US-Israeli war against Iran
Thousands of workers and youth from around the world participated in the event, which identified the international working class as the only force capable of ending the criminal bombardment of Iran and all imperialist wars.
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Australian Politics
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South Australian election: Labor government campaigns on support for property developers, austerity and militarism
The March 21 state election will resolve nothing for workers and young people.
Eric Ludlow, Oscar Grenfell
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26 February 2026
South Australian workers and youth speak ahead of state election
Socialist Equality Party members spoke with workers and young people in Adelaide about the state government’s attacks on living standards and the country’s complicity in the criminal US-led war against Iran.
Our reporters
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9 March 2026
South Australian election: Public education decays as billions funnelled into AUKUS war plans
Teachers and students confront deteriorating public schools, while military contractors and the Defence Department embed themselves in classrooms.
Sue Phillips
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6 March 2026
Labor’s promises will not resolve the South Australian housing crisis
In its four-year term, the Malinauskas government has overseen a massive widening in the gulf between wages and property prices.
Vicki Mylonas, Martin Scott
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6 March 2026
Labor directly blocking return of Australian citizens interned in Syria
Mike Head
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1 March 2026
Australian government plans “tough” austerity budget
Mike Head
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26 February 2026
Australian government banning Islamist group under laws that could illegalise political parties
Oscar Grenfell
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22 February 2026
Large “Invasion Day” protests held in Australia amid unprecedented assault on democratic rights
Our reporters
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30 January 2026
Amid Australian political crisis, editorials demand OECD austerity agenda
Mike Head
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25 January 2026
Online public meeting:
SEP holds well-attended meeting on Bondi terror attack
Speakers Oscar Grenfell, Cheryl Crisp and chair Max Boddy exposed both the reactionary character of the mass shooting and the ruthless exploitation of the tragedy by the political establishment, led by state and federal Labor governments, as a pretext for a deepening assault on democratic rights.
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Labor’s police state
Rampage against Sydney pro-Palestinian protest orchestrated by NSW government, police command
It is clear that police were told “the gloves were off” and they had a green light to violently attack protesters opposing the visit to Australia of Israeli war criminal Isaac Herzog.
Oscar Grenfell
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10 February 2026
Australia: Police confiscate anti-genocide placard at Ramadan festival in Lakemba
The police theft of a placard featuring the face of Israeli war criminal Netanyahu and the caption “wanted” was a provocation that would have been approved at high levels of the NSW government and police command.
Oscar Grenfell
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26 February 2026
Australia: Victorian Labor government hands police expanded stop-and-search powers
Such police-state powers mark a further shift to the right by Labor governments, seeking to crush dissent.
Sofia Devetzi
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25 February 2026
Australia: Police raid Canberra bar, seizing anti-fascist artwork under Labor’s new “hate speech” laws
The raid is the first known enforcement action in the national capital under the Commonwealth hate-symbol provisions and is being treated as a test case.
Jason Quill
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22 February 2026
Australian workers and youth speak out against Herzog visit and anti-protest laws
Our reporters
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10 February 2026
Police rampage against Sydney protest opposing Israeli president’s Australian visit
Oscar Grenfell
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10 February 2026
Australian workers and youth denounce visit by Israeli President Herzog
Our reporters
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10 February 2026
Israeli President Herzog’s visit to Australia: Labor governments embrace mass murder and police state repression
Oscar Grenfell
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7 February 2026
Australian Labor government rolls out red carpet for Israeli president
Oscar Grenfell
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3 February 2026
[AP Photo/Mark Baker]
Bondi terror attack meeting attendees denounce Labor’s anti-protest laws
“They’ve taken this tragedy as an opportunity to crack down on pro-Palestine, anti-Zionist movements and free speech.”
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Bondi terror attack
Australia: Questions about Bondi terrorist attack remain unanswered
The perpetrators were known to ASIO, the domestic spy agency, and appear to have been active in an extremist milieu that included supporters of the Islamic State terrorist organisation.
Oscar Grenfell
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23 February 2026
Australia: “Prohibited hate group” laws recall 1951 referendum to ban “communism”
The Albanese Labor government’s legislation echoes that of 1950 and 1951, when the Menzies government sought to criminalise “communists.”
Mike Head
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11 February 2026
Crucial questions posed by Labor’s censorship and destruction of Australian writers’ festival
The defence of artistic freedom is inseparably connected to the fight to mobilise the entire working class against social austerity, dictatorship, imperialist war and barbarism.
Richard Phillips
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27 January 2026
Australian government exploits Bondi shootings to launch historic attack on free speech
The Albanese government remains intent on ramming anti-democratic laws through parliament, under the cover of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack.
Mike Head
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16 January 2026
Australian Greens back Royal Commission witch-hunting opposition to Gaza genocide
Oscar Grenfell
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14 January 2026
Australian media steps up attack on pro-Palestine workers
Martin Scott
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14 January 2026
Australian pseudo-left covers for Labor’s assault on democratic rights after Bondi attack
Oscar Grenfell
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6 January 2026
Australian union leaders support anti-protest laws after Bondi shooting
Martin Scott
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30 December 2025
Australia: Harassment of anti-Zionist Jews after Bondi Beach terror attack
Richard Phillips
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28 December 2025
A major advance for the working class
Socialism AI goes live on December 12, 2025
Socialism AI is a powerful new chatbot developed by the WSWS to advance socialist consciousness globally by bringing the scientific outlook of Marxism to workers, youth, and intellectuals.
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Socialism AI
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“Get the knowledge that you need, at SocialismAI.com”
Ty, an educator who led sickouts against COVID in 2020, explains how workers can use Socialism AI to get the knowledge they need.
Ty
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23 December 2025
Science vs. suspicion and fear: An Open Letter to a critic of Socialism AI
This is an Open Letter responding to several harsh criticisms of Socialism AI posted by Professor Tony Williams in the comments section of the WSWS.
David North
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21 December 2025
Technology and the working class: Responding to an opponent of Socialism AI
This response seeks to clarify important issues related to the technical and political development of Socialism AI.
Evan Blake, David North
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19 December 2025
Australia postal worker encourages use of Socialism AI
“I call on my brothers and sisters around the world to use Socialism AI to educate, organise and unite.”
Our reporters
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18 December 2025
Will Lehman: Every worker should be using Socialism AI
Will Lehman
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18 December 2025
More Australian workers and youth are using Socialism AI
Our reporters
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17 December 2025
Workers and youth in Australia and New Zealand urge the use of Socialism AI
Our reporters
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16 December 2025
Perspectives
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US imperialism’s war on Iran unleashes global economic and social catastrophe for the working class
American imperialism’s determination to consolidate its geostrategic dominance over the Middle East, one of the world’s most critical energy-producing regions, has already claimed the lives of thousands of Iranians. But the economic fallout from the US-instigated war and blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could prove even more deadly.
Jordan Shilton
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22 April 2026
Germany summons Russian ambassador and escalates confrontation with Moscow
On Monday, the German government summoned the Russian ambassador in Berlin, thereby raising the diplomatic confrontation with Moscow to a new level.
Johannes Stern
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21 April 2026
The “Global Progressive Mobilization”: A bankrupt spectacle in Barcelona
The weekend conference was a bogus defense of democracy by parties and government leaders who have facilitated the rise of the fascist threat they claim to oppose.
Joseph Kishore
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20 April 2026
The Pitt
: The medical drama whose social realism and honesty have gripped millions
The interest in the series is a sympathetic response to an unusually humane treatment of social life as a whole in the US.
Isabel Roy, David Walsh
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19 April 2026
Wall Street Journal announces the era of the “mega layoff”
Tom Hall
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17 April 2026
Iran war brings massive price and profit gouging
Nick Beams
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16 April 2026
Ukraine’s Zelensky in Berlin: Germany escalates its war offensive against Russia
Johannes Stern
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15 April 2026
Cancellation of Los Angeles schools strike latest in string of union betrayals
Tom Hall
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14 April 2026
Trump’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz: The next phase in the Iran war
Andre Damon
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13 April 2026
Stop Labor’s destruction of Melbourne public housing towers!
Build neighbourhood and workplace rank-and-file committees! While far advanced, Labor’s devastating plans can and must be defeated by the working class.
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Workers’ struggles in Australia
Australian logistics software maker WiseTech announces 2,000 AI-driven job cuts
“The era of manually writing code as the core act of engineering is over,” according to WiseTech CEO Zubin Appoo.
Martin Scott
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27 February 2026
Union shuts down South Australian nurses’ strike in backroom deal with Labor government
The union-government deal is a betrayal of nurses and midwives’ deep-seated anger over real wage cuts and intensifying workloads throughout South Australia’s public health system.
Vicki Mylonas
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23 February 2026
Australia: Early childhood educators in Victoria set to strike
Educators remain trapped in a cycle of low pay, excessive workloads and chronic staff shortages.
Our reporters
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23 February 2026
Real wages to continue falling in Australia
Wages grew by just 3.4 percent over the past year, well below the annual inflation rate of 3.8 percent, amid warnings of deepening real pay cuts for at least the next two years.
Martin Scott
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20 February 2026
Job cuts and restructuring continue at Australian universities, facilitated by the trade unions
A Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee member
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19 February 2026
Australian state Labor government imposes anti-democratic “code of conduct” changes on school staff
Meg Bourne
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18 February 2026
The crisis in Australian public education and the need for rank-and-file committees
Committee for Public Education
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6 February 2026
Australian unions strike deal with Microsoft to oversee AI transformation
Martin Scott
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22 January 2026
Australia: Union officials stop striking health workers speaking to SEP members at Melbourne rally
Owen Howell, Martin Scott
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30 January 2026
Fatal explosion at the Endeavor mine in Cobar
3 months since the fatal Cobar mine explosion in Australia
There is still no official explanation for the tragedy, but mine owner Polymetals has been allowed to proceed with business as usual, as if nothing had happened.
Martin Scott
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28 January 2026
Australian safety regulator’s initial report on fatal Cobar mine explosion: more questions than answers
The NSW Resources Regulator’s November 25 “Investigation information release” neither explains what caused the tragedy nor makes any recommendation for how to stop more workers being killed.
Martin Scott
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8 December 2025
Australia: Cobar miner warns fatal accident at Endeavor Mine could be repeated
“I don’t think what the company has done in sending workers back on the job is right at all,” a Cobar worker said, referring to the October 28 mine explosion that killed two workers.
Oscar Grenfell, Richard Phillips
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23 November 2025
Australia: Cobar mine workers should defy the company gag order
Endeavor workers have not only been instructed not to speak to the media, but even to their own families about the tragic death of their colleagues and the conditions in the mine.
Martin Scott
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19 November 2025
Australia: Cobar residents oppose rapid reopening of Endeavor mine after fatal explosion
Our reporters
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26 November 2025
Australia: Hundreds attend memorial service for Cobar mine worker Ambrose McMullen
Martin Scott
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17 November 2025
Cobar mine explosion: The lessons from the Beaconsfield and Grosvenor disasters
Martin Scott
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11 November 2025
Australia: Polymetals accelerates reopening of Cobar’s Endeavor mine after fatal explosion
Martin Scott
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7 November 2025
Fatal Cobar explosion part of broader trend of accidents in Australian mines
Martin Scott
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3 November 2025
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Oppose the drive to war!
What next in the school strike against conscription in Germany?
Tens of thousands of students have launched a powerful strike against the reintroduction of conscription in Germany, expressing mass opposition to militarism and war. This struggle can succeed only if it is extended to the working class and developed into an international socialist movement against war and capitalism.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)
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18 December 2025
Trump’s National Security Strategy deepens split within NATO
The US intends to interfere in the internal affairs of its NATO partners, break up the European Union, strengthen fascist parties, and help enforce racist remigration policies.
Peter Schwarz
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9 December 2025
Australian Labor government gives $95 million to Ukraine for war with Russia
$50 million is being poured into a US-NATO fund, which supplies strike capabilities to Ukraine, including those that threaten to provoke a war throughout Europe and globally.
Oscar Grenfell
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7 December 2025
South Korea ramps up war preparations against China
Under Lee Jae-myung and the Democrats, Seoul is marching in lockstep with Washington’s aggressive imperialist agenda, demonstrating that there is no section of the South Korean ruling class opposed to war.
Ben McGrath
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2 December 2025
At Sydney weapons expo, Labor outlines military build-up for war against China
Oscar Grenfell
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4 November 2025
Australia signs neo-colonial military treaty with PNG directed against China
Oscar Grenfell
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6 October 2025
Australian PM in the UK: Militarism and reaction cloaked with paeans to “democracy”
Oscar Grenfell
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29 September 2025
NATO summit sets the stage for world war and dictatorship
Johannes Stern
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26 June 2025
Trump’s AUKUS review puts Australian nuclear submarine deal in doubt
Peter Symonds
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13 June 2025
The US-Israeli genocide in Gaza and war in the Middle East
War and militarism
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Israel kills 14 Palestinians as Trump prepares imperialist “Board of Peace” for Gaza
Israel launched strikes on Thursday and Friday that killed at least 14 Palestinians, including children, as the White House organizes its “Gaza Board of Peace,” made up of imperialist war criminals including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Kevin Reed
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9 January 2026
Palestine Action hunger strikers in imminent danger of death as Labour government still refuses to meet
Irish Republican Bobby Sands died after 66 days of a hunger strike—a milestone reached by Muraisi on Tuesday. Other Irish hunger strikers died between 46 and 61 days.
Paul Bond
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7 January 2026
Trump and Netanyahu pledge Middle East bloodbath will continue in 2026
US President Donald Trump threatened to “knock the hell out of” Iran and warned there would be “hell to pay” in Gaza, while reiterating his calls for ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population.
Andre Damon
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29 December 2025
Israel’s far-right government seeks to tighten its grip on power
The measures are aimed at strengthening the powers of the Netanyahu government as it continues its wars in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen and prepares for another offensive against Iran, amid plunging living standards.
Jean Shaoul
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28 December 2025
Summary execution in the West Bank: Trump’s “peace” deal in practice
Andre Damon
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28 November 2025
Alliance of war criminals: German Chancellor Merz meets Netanyahu
Johannes Stern
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7 December 2025
Israel tightens its grip on West Bank
Jean Shaoul
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7 December 2025
Two Palestinian brothers, 8 and 11, murdered by Israeli drone strike in Gaza
Kevin Reed
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2 December 2025
UN says Israel has “de facto state policy” of organised torture
Jean Shaoul
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1 December 2025
David North addresses book launches in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia
David North, the chairman of the international editorial board of the
World Socialist Web Site
and of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in the United States, spoke at book launches in Sydney and Melbourne over the past week. The events were part of a visit by North, who has played a leading role in the world Trotskyist movement for more than 50 years, to the SEP in Australia.
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Mass opposition to Israel's genocide in Gaza
Australian health workers voice outrage over Gaza catastrophe
The open letter and the response it has generated speak to the depth of the anguish, shock and anger felt by healthcare workers as they bear witness to the atrocities occurring in Gaza.
A doctor
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1 July 2025
Glastonbury’s defiant stand for Palestine and the radicalisation of the working class and youth
There are events which burst through the crust of official politics and media-managed opinion and let popular sentiment erupt to the surface. Saturday afternoon at the UK’s Glastonbury music festival was one of those.
Thomas Scripps
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29 June 2025
Australian court rules ABC illegally sacked journalist for opposing Gaza genocide
Antoinette Lattouf’s victory is a damning exposure of the extensive campaign that has been waged by the Labor government and the entire establishment, to falsely brand opposition to the Israeli genocide as antisemitism.
Oscar Grenfell
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26 June 2025
Australian workers and youth oppose US-Israeli attacks on Iran and ongoing genocide
“It could be curtains for everybody with World War Three, nuclear war, and I’m trying to stop that. I’m terrified, horrified, especially so because I have children and grandchildren.”
Our reporters
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25 June 2025
Australian Labor state government charging protesters over anti-Zionist slogan
Eric Ludlow
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15 May 2025
Australian voters speak out against Israel’s imperialist-backed genocide in Gaza
Our reporters
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5 May 2025
Australia: Macquarie University meeting issues strong call to oppose Zionist witch hunt against Randa Abdel-Fattah
Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee
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21 February 2025
Australian artists demand immediate reinstatement of Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino to Venice Biennale
Gabriela Zabala, Richard Phillips
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19 February 2025
International Youth and Students for Social Equality
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As capitalism hurtles to dictatorship and world war, young people must join the struggle for socialism!
For young people to have a future, they must take up a political fight against the capitalist system and fight for the establishment of socialism, which is the only way the drive towards dictatorship and war can be stopped.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)
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29 January 2026
Australian high school students oppose social media ban
Teenagers in the industrial city of Newcastle, north of Sydney, speak out against the Labor government’s legislation to bar them from accessing social media platforms.
Robert Bond
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28 December 2025
Mobilise the working class to end the Gaza genocide! Take up the fight for socialism against war!
A socialist perspective for mass student meetings in Australia against the Gaza genocide
The IYSSE will be urging students at the meetings to take up a fight for the mobilisation of the working class against the Gaza genocide and the Labor government.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)
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19 August 2025
Australian teenagers oppose police repression, social media ban after beach clash
What happened at Mordialloc beach last week was not a pre-planned “youth riot” as the media and government claim, but a confused chain of events sparked by a heavily-armed police operation.
Eric Ludlow, Owen Howell
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23 December 2025
1,600 students walk out against ICE in Hillsboro, Oregon
Hector Cordon
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19 December 2025
Australia: IYSSE at Western Sydney University presents a socialist perspective to fight Gaza genocide
Our reporters
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27 August 2025
Australian government prepares social media ban amid opposition to privacy and free speech violation
Eric Ludlow
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7 December 2025
To stop fascism and war, young people must fight for socialism!
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)
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10 February 2025
University of Sydney announces further attacks on free speech
Jack Turner
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19 June 2025
IYSSE (Australia) holds lecture on the fight of Trotskyism against the pseudo-left
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.
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Labor’s attack on the CFMEU
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Australia: Build rank-and-file committees to fight Labor’s attack on construction workers and the entire working class!
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.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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11 November 2024
Labor’s attack on the CFMEU: 1 year under state control
The federal Labor government’s appointment of administrator Mark Irving was always aimed at facilitating deeper attacks on wages and conditions in the building industry and more broadly.
Martin Scott
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11 September 2025
Australia: Inquiry highlights financial ties between building union and big developers
Incolink, a worker entitlement fund jointly controlled by the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union and Master Builders Victoria, has handed over tens of millions in investment returns to those organisations in recent years.
Martin Scott
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13 October 2025
High Court of Australia rejects challenge to Labor’s attack on the CFMEU
The ruling gives the go-ahead for a stepped-up assault on the wages, conditions and democratic rights of building workers, but it also means those who want to fight the administration can no longer be held back with the lie that all they can do is wait for the court’s verdict.
Martin Scott
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22 June 2025
Australian construction union boss steps down as Labor-appointed administrator tightens screws
Martin Scott
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29 May 2025
Australian unions promote Labor at May Day rally
Martin Scott
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2 May 2025
Australian construction union boss vows to impose Labor’s restructure plan
Martin Scott
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11 May 2025
Renewed media attacks on Australian construction union
Martin Scott
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30 March 2025
Queensland building workers protest Liberal government attack on safety, wages and conditions
Martin Scott
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27 November 2024
Public meeting:
Labor’s takeover of the CFMEU: An attack on the working class
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.
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Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!
Expert report shatters fraudulent case against Bogdan Syrotiuk: Deepen the international campaign for his freedom!
The campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk has reached a decisive turning point with the publication of a forensic linguistic analysis that shatters the fraudulent case against him.
Johannes Stern
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10 December 2025
Ukrainian court rejects motion to dismiss judge for bias as Bogdan Syrotiuk is barred from accessing dental care
The decision to not dismiss the judge for bias underscores yet again that, within the Ukrainian court system, everything is stacked against Bogdan.
Clara Weiss
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12 October 2025
1 year since the arrest of the Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service.
Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists
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24 April 2025
Left Voice calls for release of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk
One year after the arrest of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk,
Left Voice
, which is affiliated with La Izquierda Diario Network, has issued a statement calling for his release.
Clara Weiss
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8 May 2025
A provocation that failed: On Alex Steiner’s attempt to discredit the ICFI’s defense of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk
WSWS Editorial Board
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4 February 2025
State prosecution fails to present evidence in trial against Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Clara Weiss
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18 April 2025
Stop the political frame-up of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk!
David North
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17 May 2024
Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!
Johannes Stern
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25 October 2024
The campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk and the fight against war
Clara Weiss
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30 August 2024
Capitalist breakdown, the fight against war and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
This resolution was adopted by the Seventh National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from October 3-6.
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The SEP campaign in the Australian federal election
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Support the SEP in the Australian federal election! Build a socialist movement of the working class against war, austerity and dictatorship!
The Socialist Equality Party is standing candidates in the Australian federal election to build an independent movement of the working class against Labor, the Liberal-National Coalition, the Greens and capitalism itself.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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30 March 2025
WATCH: After the Australian election—The socialist alternative to Labor’s government of war and austerity
At Thursday’s meeting, speakers Oscar Grenfell and Cheryl Crisp, as well as chair Max Boddy, presented a Marxist analysis of the May 3 federal election.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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16 May 2025
The Australian election, global opposition to Trump and the need for a socialist perspective
The election was marked by a mass repudiation of Trumpism, but within the framework of parliamentary politics, the outcome is a pro-business, pro-war Labor government that will collaborate with Trump.
Oscar Grenfell
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6 May 2025
Australia’s second-term Labor government will accelerate pro-business, pro-war agenda
The key ministers who prosecuted the previous Labor government’s militarist and socially regressive policies retain their posts but changes to the ministerial line-up signal a further lurch to the right.
Mike Head
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14 May 2025
Liberal leadership contest marked by factional divisions after Australian election rout
Oscar Grenfell
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14 May 2025
After the Australian election, what the crisis of the Liberals reveals
Mike Head
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11 May 2025
Australian pseudo-left promotes illusions in pro-business, pro-war Labor government
Oscar Grenfell
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9 May 2025
Australian unions pledge support for re-elected Labor government
Martin Scott
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8 May 2025
Australian election day interviews: Major parties have no answers for social crisis
Our reporters
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6 May 2025
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SEP campaign against Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
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Australian Electoral Commission blocks evidence on its SEP ballot access ban
The AEC’s escalated reasons for refusing to release the information—claiming that it would not be in the “public interest” to do so—further underscore the anti-democratic nature of its ban on the SEP registration.
Mike Head
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8 June 2025
Australian Electoral Commission rejects FOI application for evidence to justify election ban on SEP
This Freedom of Information decision further exposes the anti-democratic character of Australia’s electoral laws and the AEC’s totally obscure use of them against the Socialist Equality Party.
Mike Head
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30 March 2025
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
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20 March 2025
Australian Electoral Commission rejects challenge to election ban on SEP
The AEC letter underscores the anti-democratic character of the country’s party registration legislation.
Mike Head
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17 March 2025
“An outrageous attack”—SEP electoral members in Australia speak out against party registration ban
Our reporters
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13 March 2025
“An attack on the SEP and on democracy itself”—SEP electoral members in Australia denounce party registration ban
Our reporters
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10 March 2025
Australia: SEP supporters express “outrage” over anti-democratic rejection of party registration
Our reporters
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6 March 2025
Australia: Electoral members support SEP campaign against party registration ban
Our reporters
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4 March 2025
Public meeting in Australia: Election ban on the SEP: An attack on democratic rights
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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4 March 2025
Australian electoral authorities reject Socialist Equality Party’s registration, despite it meeting membership requirements
The decision was made as the looming election is characterised by mass hostility to the official parties and a growing desire among workers and young people for a genuine alternative.
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The persecution of Julian Assange
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Julian Assange is free, but the struggle to defend democratic rights continues
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.
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board
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25 June 2024
The Australian Labor Party’s record in the Assange case
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.
Oscar Grenfell
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29 June 2024
Australian spooks and their media mouthpieces bemoan Assange’s freedom
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.
Oscar Grenfell
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3 July 2024
Julian Assange arrives in Australia free
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.
Oscar Grenfell
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26 June 2024
Julian Assange freed after plea deal with the US
Oscar Grenfell
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24 June 2024
“Free Julian Assange! Oppose imperialist war!”—Leading SEP (UK) member addresses meeting in Australia
Thomas Scripps
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30 May 2024
Stella Assange: “Julian is just one decision away from being extradited”
Laura Tiernan
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15 May 2024
Australian Labor government complicit in Assange extradition threat
Oscar Grenfell
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29 March 2024
Julian Assange and the fight against imperialist war
Thomas Scripps, Chris Marsden
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25 March 2024
Resolutions of the SEP (Australia) Congress 2022
Resolution adopted at the Sixth Congress of the SEP (Australia)
The COVID disaster and the political crisis of Australian capitalism
“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.”
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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13 October 2022
Resolution adopted at the Sixth Congress of the SEP (Australia)
Build an international movement of the working class against imperialist war!
“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.”
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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9 October 2022
Build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees!
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.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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17 October 2022
Free Julian Assange!
The ongoing persecution of Julian Assange is bound up with imperialist war, escalating online censorship and a broader turn to authoritarianism.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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20 October 2022
For an active boycott of Australian Labor’s Voice referendum!
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Defeat of Australian Labor’s Voice referendum highlights stark class divide, not racism
The Voice voting patterns demonstrate the intensifying hostility of working-class people to the entire political establishment.
Mike Head
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17 October 2023
Indigenous Voice leaders denounce Australian voters
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.
Mike Head
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24 October 2023
Australian pseudo-left slanders population as racist after defeat of Voice referendum
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.
Oscar Grenfell
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19 October 2023
Australian workers oppose the Voice, call for better conditions for Aboriginal people
“The Labor government is not working class, it is an elite group of people, setting up a puppet called the Voice.”
Our reporters
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16 October 2023
For an active boycott of the Voice referendum! Build a socialist movement of the working class against war and austerity!
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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12 October 2023
Socialist Equality Party meeting discusses its campaign for an active boycott of Australia’s Voice referendum
Our reporters
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2 October 2023
For an active boycott of Australian Labor’s Voice referendum!
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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7 September 2023
Why no referendum on AUKUS and Australia’s role in war plans against China?
Oscar Grenfell
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3 October 2023
Australia: IYSSE members speak in support of the SEP’s active boycott campaign of Labor’s Voice referendum
Max Boddy
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25 September 2023
Historical Foundations
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.
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Principles
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.
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Lecture series: Why study the history of Trotskyism?
The lectures, now all available online, reviewed some of the fundamental lessons of the protracted struggle by the Trotskyist movement for socialist internationalism.
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National Secretary
Cheryl Crisp
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.
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Assistant National Secretary
Max Boddy
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.
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South Australian election will resolve nothing for workers: Build a socialist movement against austerity and war!
The election underscores the absence of any alternative for working people within the existing political establishment.
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Stop the criminal US-Israeli war against Iran!
Australian naval personnel involved in US sinking of Iranian ship: Oppose the pro-imperialist Labor government and war against Iran!
The Australian Labor government is directly implicated in the war crime that claimed over 140 lives and in the broader barbaric US-Israeli war against Iran of which it is a part.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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7 March 2026
Australian Labor government sending missiles, warplane, troops to join illegal war on Iran
Labor is openly joining a war of annihilation against an oppressed nation.
Oscar Grenfell
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9 March 2026
Australian Labor government accuses Iran of “antisemitic” attacks to justify Trump’s criminal war
The revival of bogus claims that Iran orchestrated firebombings on Australian soil is the Labor government’s original contribution to the deluge of propaganda surrounding the illegal US-Israeli bombardment of that country.
Oscar Grenfell
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4 March 2026
Australian Labor government fully complicit in illegal war on Iran
This imperialist bombardment has nothing whatsoever to do with freedom from oppression, any more than the ongoing US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Mike Head
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3 March 2026
IYSSE (Australia) campus meetings: Stop the criminal US-Israeli war against Iran!
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)
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4 March 2026
Trump and Hegseth launch “total war” against Iran
WSWS Editorial Board
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3 March 2026
The war on Iran: How did we get here, and what must the working class do?
Socialism AI
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2 March 2026
Australian Labor government supports illegal US-Israeli war against Iran
Oscar Grenfell
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2 March 2026
WSWS emergency webinar articulates socialist strategy to stop US-Israeli war against Iran
Thousands of workers and youth from around the world participated in the event, which identified the international working class as the only force capable of ending the criminal bombardment of Iran and all imperialist wars.
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Australian Politics
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South Australian election: Labor government campaigns on support for property developers, austerity and militarism
The March 21 state election will resolve nothing for workers and young people.
Eric Ludlow, Oscar Grenfell
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26 February 2026
South Australian workers and youth speak ahead of state election
Socialist Equality Party members spoke with workers and young people in Adelaide about the state government’s attacks on living standards and the country’s complicity in the criminal US-led war against Iran.
Our reporters
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9 March 2026
South Australian election: Public education decays as billions funnelled into AUKUS war plans
Teachers and students confront deteriorating public schools, while military contractors and the Defence Department embed themselves in classrooms.
Sue Phillips
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6 March 2026
Labor’s promises will not resolve the South Australian housing crisis
In its four-year term, the Malinauskas government has overseen a massive widening in the gulf between wages and property prices.
Vicki Mylonas, Martin Scott
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6 March 2026
Labor directly blocking return of Australian citizens interned in Syria
Mike Head
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1 March 2026
Australian government plans “tough” austerity budget
Mike Head
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26 February 2026
Australian government banning Islamist group under laws that could illegalise political parties
Oscar Grenfell
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22 February 2026
Large “Invasion Day” protests held in Australia amid unprecedented assault on democratic rights
Our reporters
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30 January 2026
Amid Australian political crisis, editorials demand OECD austerity agenda
Mike Head
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25 January 2026
Online public meeting:
SEP holds well-attended meeting on Bondi terror attack
Speakers Oscar Grenfell, Cheryl Crisp and chair Max Boddy exposed both the reactionary character of the mass shooting and the ruthless exploitation of the tragedy by the political establishment, led by state and federal Labor governments, as a pretext for a deepening assault on democratic rights.
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Labor’s police state
Rampage against Sydney pro-Palestinian protest orchestrated by NSW government, police command
It is clear that police were told “the gloves were off” and they had a green light to violently attack protesters opposing the visit to Australia of Israeli war criminal Isaac Herzog.
Oscar Grenfell
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10 February 2026
Australia: Police confiscate anti-genocide placard at Ramadan festival in Lakemba
The police theft of a placard featuring the face of Israeli war criminal Netanyahu and the caption “wanted” was a provocation that would have been approved at high levels of the NSW government and police command.
Oscar Grenfell
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26 February 2026
Australia: Victorian Labor government hands police expanded stop-and-search powers
Such police-state powers mark a further shift to the right by Labor governments, seeking to crush dissent.
Sofia Devetzi
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25 February 2026
Australia: Police raid Canberra bar, seizing anti-fascist artwork under Labor’s new “hate speech” laws
The raid is the first known enforcement action in the national capital under the Commonwealth hate-symbol provisions and is being treated as a test case.
Jason Quill
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22 February 2026
Australian workers and youth speak out against Herzog visit and anti-protest laws
Our reporters
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10 February 2026
Police rampage against Sydney protest opposing Israeli president’s Australian visit
Oscar Grenfell
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10 February 2026
Australian workers and youth denounce visit by Israeli President Herzog
Our reporters
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10 February 2026
Israeli President Herzog’s visit to Australia: Labor governments embrace mass murder and police state repression
Oscar Grenfell
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7 February 2026
Australian Labor government rolls out red carpet for Israeli president
Oscar Grenfell
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3 February 2026
[AP Photo/Mark Baker]
Bondi terror attack meeting attendees denounce Labor’s anti-protest laws
“They’ve taken this tragedy as an opportunity to crack down on pro-Palestine, anti-Zionist movements and free speech.”
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Bondi terror attack
Australia: Questions about Bondi terrorist attack remain unanswered
The perpetrators were known to ASIO, the domestic spy agency, and appear to have been active in an extremist milieu that included supporters of the Islamic State terrorist organisation.
Oscar Grenfell
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23 February 2026
Australia: “Prohibited hate group” laws recall 1951 referendum to ban “communism”
The Albanese Labor government’s legislation echoes that of 1950 and 1951, when the Menzies government sought to criminalise “communists.”
Mike Head
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11 February 2026
Crucial questions posed by Labor’s censorship and destruction of Australian writers’ festival
The defence of artistic freedom is inseparably connected to the fight to mobilise the entire working class against social austerity, dictatorship, imperialist war and barbarism.
Richard Phillips
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27 January 2026
Australian government exploits Bondi shootings to launch historic attack on free speech
The Albanese government remains intent on ramming anti-democratic laws through parliament, under the cover of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack.
Mike Head
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16 January 2026
Australian Greens back Royal Commission witch-hunting opposition to Gaza genocide
Oscar Grenfell
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14 January 2026
Australian media steps up attack on pro-Palestine workers
Martin Scott
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14 January 2026
Australian pseudo-left covers for Labor’s assault on democratic rights after Bondi attack
Oscar Grenfell
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6 January 2026
Australian union leaders support anti-protest laws after Bondi shooting
Martin Scott
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30 December 2025
Australia: Harassment of anti-Zionist Jews after Bondi Beach terror attack
Richard Phillips
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28 December 2025
A major advance for the working class
Socialism AI goes live on December 12, 2025
Socialism AI is a powerful new chatbot developed by the WSWS to advance socialist consciousness globally by bringing the scientific outlook of Marxism to workers, youth, and intellectuals.
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Socialism AI
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“Get the knowledge that you need, at SocialismAI.com”
Ty, an educator who led sickouts against COVID in 2020, explains how workers can use Socialism AI to get the knowledge they need.
Ty
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23 December 2025
Science vs. suspicion and fear: An Open Letter to a critic of Socialism AI
This is an Open Letter responding to several harsh criticisms of Socialism AI posted by Professor Tony Williams in the comments section of the WSWS.
David North
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21 December 2025
Technology and the working class: Responding to an opponent of Socialism AI
This response seeks to clarify important issues related to the technical and political development of Socialism AI.
Evan Blake, David North
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19 December 2025
Australia postal worker encourages use of Socialism AI
“I call on my brothers and sisters around the world to use Socialism AI to educate, organise and unite.”
Our reporters
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18 December 2025
Will Lehman: Every worker should be using Socialism AI
Will Lehman
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18 December 2025
More Australian workers and youth are using Socialism AI
Our reporters
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17 December 2025
Workers and youth in Australia and New Zealand urge the use of Socialism AI
Our reporters
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16 December 2025
Perspectives
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US imperialism’s war on Iran unleashes global economic and social catastrophe for the working class
American imperialism’s determination to consolidate its geostrategic dominance over the Middle East, one of the world’s most critical energy-producing regions, has already claimed the lives of thousands of Iranians. But the economic fallout from the US-instigated war and blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could prove even more deadly.
Jordan Shilton
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22 April 2026
Germany summons Russian ambassador and escalates confrontation with Moscow
On Monday, the German government summoned the Russian ambassador in Berlin, thereby raising the diplomatic confrontation with Moscow to a new level.
Johannes Stern
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21 April 2026
The “Global Progressive Mobilization”: A bankrupt spectacle in Barcelona
The weekend conference was a bogus defense of democracy by parties and government leaders who have facilitated the rise of the fascist threat they claim to oppose.
Joseph Kishore
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20 April 2026
The Pitt
: The medical drama whose social realism and honesty have gripped millions
The interest in the series is a sympathetic response to an unusually humane treatment of social life as a whole in the US.
Isabel Roy, David Walsh
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19 April 2026
Wall Street Journal announces the era of the “mega layoff”
Tom Hall
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17 April 2026
Iran war brings massive price and profit gouging
Nick Beams
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16 April 2026
Ukraine’s Zelensky in Berlin: Germany escalates its war offensive against Russia
Johannes Stern
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15 April 2026
Cancellation of Los Angeles schools strike latest in string of union betrayals
Tom Hall
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14 April 2026
Trump’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz: The next phase in the Iran war
Andre Damon
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13 April 2026
Stop Labor’s destruction of Melbourne public housing towers!
Build neighbourhood and workplace rank-and-file committees! While far advanced, Labor’s devastating plans can and must be defeated by the working class.
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Workers’ struggles in Australia
Australian logistics software maker WiseTech announces 2,000 AI-driven job cuts
“The era of manually writing code as the core act of engineering is over,” according to WiseTech CEO Zubin Appoo.
Martin Scott
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27 February 2026
Union shuts down South Australian nurses’ strike in backroom deal with Labor government
The union-government deal is a betrayal of nurses and midwives’ deep-seated anger over real wage cuts and intensifying workloads throughout South Australia’s public health system.
Vicki Mylonas
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23 February 2026
Australia: Early childhood educators in Victoria set to strike
Educators remain trapped in a cycle of low pay, excessive workloads and chronic staff shortages.
Our reporters
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23 February 2026
Real wages to continue falling in Australia
Wages grew by just 3.4 percent over the past year, well below the annual inflation rate of 3.8 percent, amid warnings of deepening real pay cuts for at least the next two years.
Martin Scott
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20 February 2026
Job cuts and restructuring continue at Australian universities, facilitated by the trade unions
A Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee member
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19 February 2026
Australian state Labor government imposes anti-democratic “code of conduct” changes on school staff
Meg Bourne
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18 February 2026
The crisis in Australian public education and the need for rank-and-file committees
Committee for Public Education
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6 February 2026
Australian unions strike deal with Microsoft to oversee AI transformation
Martin Scott
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22 January 2026
Australia: Union officials stop striking health workers speaking to SEP members at Melbourne rally
Owen Howell, Martin Scott
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30 January 2026
Fatal explosion at the Endeavor mine in Cobar
3 months since the fatal Cobar mine explosion in Australia
There is still no official explanation for the tragedy, but mine owner Polymetals has been allowed to proceed with business as usual, as if nothing had happened.
Martin Scott
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28 January 2026
Australian safety regulator’s initial report on fatal Cobar mine explosion: more questions than answers
The NSW Resources Regulator’s November 25 “Investigation information release” neither explains what caused the tragedy nor makes any recommendation for how to stop more workers being killed.
Martin Scott
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8 December 2025
Australia: Cobar miner warns fatal accident at Endeavor Mine could be repeated
“I don’t think what the company has done in sending workers back on the job is right at all,” a Cobar worker said, referring to the October 28 mine explosion that killed two workers.
Oscar Grenfell, Richard Phillips
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23 November 2025
Australia: Cobar mine workers should defy the company gag order
Endeavor workers have not only been instructed not to speak to the media, but even to their own families about the tragic death of their colleagues and the conditions in the mine.
Martin Scott
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19 November 2025
Australia: Cobar residents oppose rapid reopening of Endeavor mine after fatal explosion
Our reporters
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26 November 2025
Australia: Hundreds attend memorial service for Cobar mine worker Ambrose McMullen
Martin Scott
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17 November 2025
Cobar mine explosion: The lessons from the Beaconsfield and Grosvenor disasters
Martin Scott
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11 November 2025
Australia: Polymetals accelerates reopening of Cobar’s Endeavor mine after fatal explosion
Martin Scott
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7 November 2025
Fatal Cobar explosion part of broader trend of accidents in Australian mines
Martin Scott
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3 November 2025
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Oppose the drive to war!
What next in the school strike against conscription in Germany?
Tens of thousands of students have launched a powerful strike against the reintroduction of conscription in Germany, expressing mass opposition to militarism and war. This struggle can succeed only if it is extended to the working class and developed into an international socialist movement against war and capitalism.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE)
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18 December 2025
Trump’s National Security Strategy deepens split within NATO
The US intends to interfere in the internal affairs of its NATO partners, break up the European Union, strengthen fascist parties, and help enforce racist remigration policies.
Peter Schwarz
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9 December 2025
Australian Labor government gives $95 million to Ukraine for war with Russia
$50 million is being poured into a US-NATO fund, which supplies strike capabilities to Ukraine, including those that threaten to provoke a war throughout Europe and globally.
Oscar Grenfell
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7 December 2025
South Korea ramps up war preparations against China
Under Lee Jae-myung and the Democrats, Seoul is marching in lockstep with Washington’s aggressive imperialist agenda, demonstrating that there is no section of the South Korean ruling class opposed to war.
Ben McGrath
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2 December 2025
At Sydney weapons expo, Labor outlines military build-up for war against China
Oscar Grenfell
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4 November 2025
Australia signs neo-colonial military treaty with PNG directed against China
Oscar Grenfell
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6 October 2025
Australian PM in the UK: Militarism and reaction cloaked with paeans to “democracy”
Oscar Grenfell
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29 September 2025
NATO summit sets the stage for world war and dictatorship
Johannes Stern
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26 June 2025
Trump’s AUKUS review puts Australian nuclear submarine deal in doubt
Peter Symonds
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13 June 2025
The US-Israeli genocide in Gaza and war in the Middle East
War and militarism
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Israel kills 14 Palestinians as Trump prepares imperialist “Board of Peace” for Gaza
Israel launched strikes on Thursday and Friday that killed at least 14 Palestinians, including children, as the White House organizes its “Gaza Board of Peace,” made up of imperialist war criminals including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Kevin Reed
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9 January 2026
Palestine Action hunger strikers in imminent danger of death as Labour government still refuses to meet
Irish Republican Bobby Sands died after 66 days of a hunger strike—a milestone reached by Muraisi on Tuesday. Other Irish hunger strikers died between 46 and 61 days.
Paul Bond
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7 January 2026
Trump and Netanyahu pledge Middle East bloodbath will continue in 2026
US President Donald Trump threatened to “knock the hell out of” Iran and warned there would be “hell to pay” in Gaza, while reiterating his calls for ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population.
Andre Damon
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29 December 2025
Israel’s far-right government seeks to tighten its grip on power
The measures are aimed at strengthening the powers of the Netanyahu government as it continues its wars in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen and prepares for another offensive against Iran, amid plunging living standards.
Jean Shaoul
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28 December 2025
Summary execution in the West Bank: Trump’s “peace” deal in practice
Andre Damon
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28 November 2025
Alliance of war criminals: German Chancellor Merz meets Netanyahu
Johannes Stern
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7 December 2025
Israel tightens its grip on West Bank
Jean Shaoul
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7 December 2025
Two Palestinian brothers, 8 and 11, murdered by Israeli drone strike in Gaza
Kevin Reed
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2 December 2025
UN says Israel has “de facto state policy” of organised torture
Jean Shaoul
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1 December 2025
David North addresses book launches in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia
David North, the chairman of the international editorial board of the
World Socialist Web Site
and of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in the United States, spoke at book launches in Sydney and Melbourne over the past week. The events were part of a visit by North, who has played a leading role in the world Trotskyist movement for more than 50 years, to the SEP in Australia.
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Mass opposition to Israel's genocide in Gaza
Australian health workers voice outrage over Gaza catastrophe
The open letter and the response it has generated speak to the depth of the anguish, shock and anger felt by healthcare workers as they bear witness to the atrocities occurring in Gaza.
A doctor
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1 July 2025
Glastonbury’s defiant stand for Palestine and the radicalisation of the working class and youth
There are events which burst through the crust of official politics and media-managed opinion and let popular sentiment erupt to the surface. Saturday afternoon at the UK’s Glastonbury music festival was one of those.
Thomas Scripps
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29 June 2025
Australian court rules ABC illegally sacked journalist for opposing Gaza genocide
Antoinette Lattouf’s victory is a damning exposure of the extensive campaign that has been waged by the Labor government and the entire establishment, to falsely brand opposition to the Israeli genocide as antisemitism.
Oscar Grenfell
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26 June 2025
Australian workers and youth oppose US-Israeli attacks on Iran and ongoing genocide
“It could be curtains for everybody with World War Three, nuclear war, and I’m trying to stop that. I’m terrified, horrified, especially so because I have children and grandchildren.”
Our reporters
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25 June 2025
Australian Labor state government charging protesters over anti-Zionist slogan
Eric Ludlow
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15 May 2025
Australian voters speak out against Israel’s imperialist-backed genocide in Gaza
Our reporters
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5 May 2025
Australia: Macquarie University meeting issues strong call to oppose Zionist witch hunt against Randa Abdel-Fattah
Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee
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21 February 2025
Australian artists demand immediate reinstatement of Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino to Venice Biennale
Gabriela Zabala, Richard Phillips
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19 February 2025
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As capitalism hurtles to dictatorship and world war, young people must join the struggle for socialism!
For young people to have a future, they must take up a political fight against the capitalist system and fight for the establishment of socialism, which is the only way the drive towards dictatorship and war can be stopped.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)
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29 January 2026
Australian high school students oppose social media ban
Teenagers in the industrial city of Newcastle, north of Sydney, speak out against the Labor government’s legislation to bar them from accessing social media platforms.
Robert Bond
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28 December 2025
Mobilise the working class to end the Gaza genocide! Take up the fight for socialism against war!
A socialist perspective for mass student meetings in Australia against the Gaza genocide
The IYSSE will be urging students at the meetings to take up a fight for the mobilisation of the working class against the Gaza genocide and the Labor government.
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)
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19 August 2025
Australian teenagers oppose police repression, social media ban after beach clash
What happened at Mordialloc beach last week was not a pre-planned “youth riot” as the media and government claim, but a confused chain of events sparked by a heavily-armed police operation.
Eric Ludlow, Owen Howell
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23 December 2025
1,600 students walk out against ICE in Hillsboro, Oregon
Hector Cordon
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19 December 2025
Australia: IYSSE at Western Sydney University presents a socialist perspective to fight Gaza genocide
Our reporters
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27 August 2025
Australian government prepares social media ban amid opposition to privacy and free speech violation
Eric Ludlow
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7 December 2025
To stop fascism and war, young people must fight for socialism!
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)
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10 February 2025
University of Sydney announces further attacks on free speech
Jack Turner
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19 June 2025
IYSSE (Australia) holds lecture on the fight of Trotskyism against the pseudo-left
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.
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Labor’s attack on the CFMEU
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Australia: Build rank-and-file committees to fight Labor’s attack on construction workers and the entire working class!
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.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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11 November 2024
Labor’s attack on the CFMEU: 1 year under state control
The federal Labor government’s appointment of administrator Mark Irving was always aimed at facilitating deeper attacks on wages and conditions in the building industry and more broadly.
Martin Scott
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11 September 2025
Australia: Inquiry highlights financial ties between building union and big developers
Incolink, a worker entitlement fund jointly controlled by the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union and Master Builders Victoria, has handed over tens of millions in investment returns to those organisations in recent years.
Martin Scott
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13 October 2025
High Court of Australia rejects challenge to Labor’s attack on the CFMEU
The ruling gives the go-ahead for a stepped-up assault on the wages, conditions and democratic rights of building workers, but it also means those who want to fight the administration can no longer be held back with the lie that all they can do is wait for the court’s verdict.
Martin Scott
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22 June 2025
Australian construction union boss steps down as Labor-appointed administrator tightens screws
Martin Scott
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29 May 2025
Australian unions promote Labor at May Day rally
Martin Scott
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2 May 2025
Australian construction union boss vows to impose Labor’s restructure plan
Martin Scott
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11 May 2025
Renewed media attacks on Australian construction union
Martin Scott
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30 March 2025
Queensland building workers protest Liberal government attack on safety, wages and conditions
Martin Scott
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27 November 2024
Public meeting:
Labor’s takeover of the CFMEU: An attack on the working class
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.
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Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!
Expert report shatters fraudulent case against Bogdan Syrotiuk: Deepen the international campaign for his freedom!
The campaign to free Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk has reached a decisive turning point with the publication of a forensic linguistic analysis that shatters the fraudulent case against him.
Johannes Stern
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10 December 2025
Ukrainian court rejects motion to dismiss judge for bias as Bogdan Syrotiuk is barred from accessing dental care
The decision to not dismiss the judge for bias underscores yet again that, within the Ukrainian court system, everything is stacked against Bogdan.
Clara Weiss
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12 October 2025
1 year since the arrest of the Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Exactly one year ago, the Ukrainian socialist and leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists was arrested by the Ukrainian Secret Service.
Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists
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24 April 2025
Left Voice calls for release of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk
One year after the arrest of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk,
Left Voice
, which is affiliated with La Izquierda Diario Network, has issued a statement calling for his release.
Clara Weiss
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8 May 2025
A provocation that failed: On Alex Steiner’s attempt to discredit the ICFI’s defense of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk
WSWS Editorial Board
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4 February 2025
State prosecution fails to present evidence in trial against Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
Clara Weiss
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18 April 2025
Stop the political frame-up of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk!
David North
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17 May 2024
Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!
Johannes Stern
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25 October 2024
The campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk and the fight against war
Clara Weiss
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30 August 2024
Capitalist breakdown, the fight against war and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
This resolution was adopted by the Seventh National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from October 3-6.
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The SEP campaign in the Australian federal election
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Support the SEP in the Australian federal election! Build a socialist movement of the working class against war, austerity and dictatorship!
The Socialist Equality Party is standing candidates in the Australian federal election to build an independent movement of the working class against Labor, the Liberal-National Coalition, the Greens and capitalism itself.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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30 March 2025
WATCH: After the Australian election—The socialist alternative to Labor’s government of war and austerity
At Thursday’s meeting, speakers Oscar Grenfell and Cheryl Crisp, as well as chair Max Boddy, presented a Marxist analysis of the May 3 federal election.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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16 May 2025
The Australian election, global opposition to Trump and the need for a socialist perspective
The election was marked by a mass repudiation of Trumpism, but within the framework of parliamentary politics, the outcome is a pro-business, pro-war Labor government that will collaborate with Trump.
Oscar Grenfell
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6 May 2025
Australia’s second-term Labor government will accelerate pro-business, pro-war agenda
The key ministers who prosecuted the previous Labor government’s militarist and socially regressive policies retain their posts but changes to the ministerial line-up signal a further lurch to the right.
Mike Head
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14 May 2025
Liberal leadership contest marked by factional divisions after Australian election rout
Oscar Grenfell
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14 May 2025
After the Australian election, what the crisis of the Liberals reveals
Mike Head
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11 May 2025
Australian pseudo-left promotes illusions in pro-business, pro-war Labor government
Oscar Grenfell
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9 May 2025
Australian unions pledge support for re-elected Labor government
Martin Scott
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8 May 2025
Australian election day interviews: Major parties have no answers for social crisis
Our reporters
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6 May 2025
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SEP campaign against Australia’s anti-democratic electoral laws
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Australian Electoral Commission blocks evidence on its SEP ballot access ban
The AEC’s escalated reasons for refusing to release the information—claiming that it would not be in the “public interest” to do so—further underscore the anti-democratic nature of its ban on the SEP registration.
Mike Head
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8 June 2025
Australian Electoral Commission rejects FOI application for evidence to justify election ban on SEP
This Freedom of Information decision further exposes the anti-democratic character of Australia’s electoral laws and the AEC’s totally obscure use of them against the Socialist Equality Party.
Mike Head
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30 March 2025
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
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20 March 2025
Australian Electoral Commission rejects challenge to election ban on SEP
The AEC letter underscores the anti-democratic character of the country’s party registration legislation.
Mike Head
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17 March 2025
“An outrageous attack”—SEP electoral members in Australia speak out against party registration ban
Our reporters
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13 March 2025
“An attack on the SEP and on democracy itself”—SEP electoral members in Australia denounce party registration ban
Our reporters
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10 March 2025
Australia: SEP supporters express “outrage” over anti-democratic rejection of party registration
Our reporters
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6 March 2025
Australia: Electoral members support SEP campaign against party registration ban
Our reporters
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4 March 2025
Public meeting in Australia: Election ban on the SEP: An attack on democratic rights
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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4 March 2025
Australian electoral authorities reject Socialist Equality Party’s registration, despite it meeting membership requirements
The decision was made as the looming election is characterised by mass hostility to the official parties and a growing desire among workers and young people for a genuine alternative.
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The persecution of Julian Assange
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Julian Assange is free, but the struggle to defend democratic rights continues
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.
Statement of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board
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25 June 2024
The Australian Labor Party’s record in the Assange case
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.
Oscar Grenfell
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29 June 2024
Australian spooks and their media mouthpieces bemoan Assange’s freedom
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.
Oscar Grenfell
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3 July 2024
Julian Assange arrives in Australia free
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.
Oscar Grenfell
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26 June 2024
Julian Assange freed after plea deal with the US
Oscar Grenfell
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24 June 2024
“Free Julian Assange! Oppose imperialist war!”—Leading SEP (UK) member addresses meeting in Australia
Thomas Scripps
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30 May 2024
Stella Assange: “Julian is just one decision away from being extradited”
Laura Tiernan
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15 May 2024
Australian Labor government complicit in Assange extradition threat
Oscar Grenfell
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29 March 2024
Julian Assange and the fight against imperialist war
Thomas Scripps, Chris Marsden
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25 March 2024
Resolutions of the SEP (Australia) Congress 2022
Resolution adopted at the Sixth Congress of the SEP (Australia)
The COVID disaster and the political crisis of Australian capitalism
“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.”
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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13 October 2022
Resolution adopted at the Sixth Congress of the SEP (Australia)
Build an international movement of the working class against imperialist war!
“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.”
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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9 October 2022
Build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees!
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.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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17 October 2022
Free Julian Assange!
The ongoing persecution of Julian Assange is bound up with imperialist war, escalating online censorship and a broader turn to authoritarianism.
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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20 October 2022
For an active boycott of Australian Labor’s Voice referendum!
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Defeat of Australian Labor’s Voice referendum highlights stark class divide, not racism
The Voice voting patterns demonstrate the intensifying hostility of working-class people to the entire political establishment.
Mike Head
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17 October 2023
Indigenous Voice leaders denounce Australian voters
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.
Mike Head
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24 October 2023
Australian pseudo-left slanders population as racist after defeat of Voice referendum
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.
Oscar Grenfell
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19 October 2023
Australian workers oppose the Voice, call for better conditions for Aboriginal people
“The Labor government is not working class, it is an elite group of people, setting up a puppet called the Voice.”
Our reporters
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16 October 2023
For an active boycott of the Voice referendum! Build a socialist movement of the working class against war and austerity!
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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12 October 2023
Socialist Equality Party meeting discusses its campaign for an active boycott of Australia’s Voice referendum
Our reporters
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2 October 2023
For an active boycott of Australian Labor’s Voice referendum!
Socialist Equality Party (Australia)
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7 September 2023
Why no referendum on AUKUS and Australia’s role in war plans against China?
Oscar Grenfell
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3 October 2023
Australia: IYSSE members speak in support of the SEP’s active boycott campaign of Labor’s Voice referendum
Max Boddy
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25 September 2023
Historical Foundations
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.
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Principles
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.
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Lecture series: Why study the history of Trotskyism?
The lectures, now all available online, reviewed some of the fundamental lessons of the protracted struggle by the Trotskyist movement for socialist internationalism.
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Leadership
National Secretary
Cheryl Crisp
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.
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Assistant National Secretary
Max Boddy
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.
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Authorised by Cheryl Crisp for the Socialist Equality Party, Level 1/457-459 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills, NSW, 2010, Australia.