On 1 August, 800 people turned out to the Aborigines Advancement League in the northern Melbourne suburb of Thornbury to help us launch our campaign for the 2026 state election.
The oil shock caused by the US and Israel’s war on Iran has provided another depressing reminder of the continuing failure of the global “green transition”.
The Socialist Party has grown from a membership of less than 1,000 to more than 5,000 in the space of half a year. No other Australian socialist formation in the 80 years since the end of World War Two has come close to such rapid growth.
The attempt to apply socialist ideas without consideration of the movement's historic practice—and the way that practice can best be applied in contemporary contexts—is among the worst, and most frequently committed, errors socialists can fall into.
In light of the positive results for Victorian Socialists (VS) in the federal election and the significant momentum the party has gained, the VS executive on 11 May decided to expand the project across the rest of Australia.
