The Democratic Party is expected to win back control of the US House of Representatives and possibly even the Senate in Tuesday’s midterm elections. But just how much difference will that make?
To transform politics in Australia, we need a party of countless thousands, rooted in workplaces and communities, and organised not just to vote, but to fight against the rich and all their hangers-on.
That is what makes the Socialist Party different.
The Victorian state election will take place in just over two months, on Saturday 28 November. The Victorian Socialists’ campaign is now in full swing, with local campaign activity taking place daily across Melbourne and regional Victoria.
The Victorian wing of the Australian Socialist Party is running a candidate in every seat in the November state election. Jasmine Duff, the candidate for Footscray, joins RF Radio to talk about the campaign.
Less than eighteen months ago, Western Australian Corrective Services Minister Paul Papalia comfortably held the seat of Secret Harbour, in Perth’s southern suburbs, with a two-party preferred vote of 61.5 percent in the state election. The by-election on Saturday wasn’t even close.
Rebel teachers are taking the energy and inspiration of their industrial struggle against the Victorian government into the state election this November.
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.