Socialist Alliance (Australia)
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Socialist Alliance
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| Co-Convenors | Susan Price Alex Bainbridge |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | 22–36 Mountain St Ultimo, NSW 2007 |
| Newspaper | Green Left Weekly |
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Socialism Anti-capitalism Eco-socialism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| Colours | Red |
| Local government (Victoria) |
1 / 611
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| Local government (WA) |
1 / 419
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| https://socialist-alliance.org/ | |
The Socialist Alliance is a radical socialist party in Australia which engages in a combination of grass roots activism and electoral politics. With branches in most states and territories, and electoral registration federally and in a number of states, it claims to be the largest group on the Australian left.
The Socialist Alliance’s stated aim is to “replace the capitalist system with one in which the fundamental elements of the economy are socially owned and controlled and democratic systems of popular power established” through a “sustained mass campaign of total opposition to capitalism”.
The Socialist Alliance participates in elections as one avenue for promoting socialist ideas, but it also places a heavy emphasis on grass roots campaigning and activism between elections. It is involved in the trade union, education, and climate change movements, as well as numerous other grass roots campaigns including refugee rights, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights, climate change, and international solidarity with movements such as the Palestinian struggle for national self-determination, the Bolivarian Revolution in Latin America, and social-justice and pro-democracy movements in South East Asia.
The Socialist Alliance also opposes US and Australian military interventions such as in Afghanistan and Iraq, and played a leading role in founding the Stop the War Coalition in a number of cities.
The Socialist Alliance was founded in 2001 as a loose alliance of socialist organisations and individuals. The project was initiated by the Democratic Socialist Perspective and the International Socialist Organisation along with 6 other founding socialist organisations, to create greater left unity in the aftermath of the protest of the World Economic Forum in Melbourne on 11–13 September 2000.
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