>SYDNEY — Australia’s center-left government convincingly won reelection Saturday in a remarkable turnaround driven partly by anger over President Donald Trump’s disruptive trade war and its effect on the close U.S. military ally.
<Anthony Albanese became the first Australian prime minister to win a second term in more than two decades as his Labor Party dramatically increased its parliamentary majority. It marked a stunning comeback for the progressive leader, who trailed in the polls two months ago.
73 posts and 14 image replies omitted.HELLO AUSTRALIANSThe Victorian Socialists are expanding to cover all States and TerritoriesIn order to get them on the ballot they need as many members joining as they can get
They aim to get some senate seats and if they can get ballot access they will succeed
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https://www.victoriansocialists.org.au/join >>2267875>>2268024Yep, technically an alliance (started with both Socialist Alternative and Socialist Alliance as the major parties with Sallies soon leaving:
https://socialist-alliance.org/our-common-cause/2020-05-14/socialist-alliance-withdraws-victorian-socialists ) but might as well just be SAlt electoralist party.
>who are Communist Alternative (CAlt)?A split from Solidarity (both are officially Cliffite orgs but act so differently you'd never know), SAlt are likely the largest socialist org in Australia, mostly students who sell newspapers and act like shitty Mormons for a few years and then burn out. Everyone knows a horror story from them, in fact a significant amount of my org are former SAlt members who left.
https://umsu.unimelb.edu.au/news/article/7797/Why-the-Left-Sucks-An-Inquiry-into-Campuss-Most-Hated-Political-Group/They waste time trying to call people who already told them to fuck off because they didn't realise that environmental petition was just a tactic to get their phone number. Someone I know blocked their number so they got another member to start calling instead. One of their recruits asked my Palestinian friend who has family in Palestine, at a Palestine protest, if they were of the conflict, and when they said yes, just continued reciting the script anyway. Their branch at Sydney University got their members to strategically vote the Young Liberals (right-wing party) into a seat rather than give it to any of the anti-capitalist orgs. They're basically all the shit stereotypes of privileged White university liberals, it's actually impressive.
Caveat: many of them are actually decent people, this critique is nothing personal, but once they're around other members and have to toe the party line to avoid being ostracized, they're fucking horrible.
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>>2269381dont waste your time scanning this
Australia is irrelevant. It's not even a real country, just a province of England
One of Socialist Alliance's Senate candidates was interviewed by Mr Sikkant on TikTok
How do you think we went? Did he make a good impression
https://www.tiktok.com/@mrsikkant>>2271082>How do you think we went?>weDo I look like an awkward retiree succdem to you?
i work at computers and have better posture, appearance shouldn't matter but it does in the electoral popularity contest>>2271086I will say good on them for immediately explaining that electoralism isn't the main route for change.
Yeah a media training session could do some good. Like at 2:00, they seem to be treating this like a personal argument, where "No." is a valid response to the interviewer's lay-up "But didn't Elon do all this stuff?", the interviewer then has to kind-of-awkwardly draw the reasoning out of the guy with follow-up questions and say "I'm not on his side" to try and make him realise it's a prompt, not an argument.
The interviewer is BEGGING for a critique of the "risk" argument for minutes.
oh god i just got to 5:00 and fucking hell no candidate should be saying that in response to a simple question about socialist society. Like yeah, you should be ready to summarise Marxist theory in a couple of sentences, it doesn't have to be rigorous but you have to give
something, it took them a bit too long to find that it's a society where we're driven by [material] needs rather than profit. They kinda managed the innovation rebuttal.
Obviously it's easier for me here with a keyboard instead of a real-time interview, but my comrade in socialism, you're a fucking politician.
>>2273583most of a capitalist's "assets" are their means of production. how do you "tax" that out of people? its a stupid argument because it shows economic illiteracy. its on the same level as saying that printing billions of dollars creates billions of dollars of more value. what objective factor does erasing the income of elon musk have except that elon simply has less money?
>>2273588are you a skinnyfat yourself, perchance?
>>2271082Unprofessional and sloppy. Not an outright embrrassment but a complete miss of an opportunity.
You have an audience of potentially thousands of people and you criticise billionaires by calling them "cunts", and then give a wishy washy answer about your platform being about yelling and screaming for social justice. You could have talked about the multiple economic crises in this country, how billionaires exploit other people's labor, gain exclusive government contracts, or use their capital to control media or outright manipulate elections. You can point out how the Australian ruling class is now complicit in multiple war crimes and ethnic cleansing.
The positive case for socialism was weak as well. Yes, obviously a society based on human need, not for profit. But point out why it is neccessary, why it is democratic, why it is historically vital, how capitalism constantly creates crises, war, destruction and the top of society comes away richer than ever before?
SAllies are dying anyway, so no big loss.
>>2305139Which state, ya derro
>>2311756anarchojak for not bashing Channel 9 reporters
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