Socialist Alliance

  • Woman, Life, Freedom: Behind the Uprising in Iran

    • Naarm/Melbourne

    The mass uprising in Iran is in response to the killing of Jina Mahsa Amini by Iran's morality police. Despite intense repression from the Iranian authorities, including the killing of protesters, masses of people have maintained the uprising. This is an inspiration to all those fighting for a better world. The movement has been driven by opposition to the regime’s treatment of…

  • Introduction to socialism class

    • Muloobinba/Newcastle

    Introduction To Socialism classes are held at the Resistance Centre each Saturday, 10am to 12 noon (unless otherwise advised).

  • Discussions: Socialism, capitalism and the Socialist Alliance

    • Online

    What is the nature and origins of capitalism? What is socialism? Find out more about the Socialist Alliance — the socialist group who ran in four states in the recent federal elections. Join Dr. Harry Fairless a long-term socialist, a teacher at university in English literature and holds a wealth of knowledge about Marxist economics, sci-fiction literature, capitalism's multiple…

  • How Capitalism Creates Racism

    • Online
    • Naarm/Melbourne

    From the colonisation and dispossession of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to the 1901 White Australia Act then the torture of refugees in detention centres, racism has always been central to the Australian nation. Has racism always existed? How is racial oppression linked to the Capitalist system of private profit? Come along to this public forum hosted by…

  • COP26: A Left Response

    • Online
    • Naarm/Melbourne
    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    COP26, the United Nations Climate Change conference, aims to get country pledges to rapidly reduce carbon and methane emissions in the next 10 years. The Paris Agreement, signed in 2015, committed countries to try to stop warming at 1.5C — but it didn’t commit them to take any specific action when it came to emissions Australia’s PM Scott Morrison has gone to Glasgow to see what…

  • Sue Bolton for Wills - Volunteers Day

    • Naarm/Melbourne

    Come to our Volunteers Day - Federal Elections 2022 Support the Sue Bolton for Wills & Socialist Alliance election campaign Sunday 20 February, 12.30 Venue: Harry Atkinson Arts & Crafts Centre, Lake Grove, Coburg Lakes Reserve, Coburg (5 min walk from Sydney Rd tram) Lunch & drinks available (lunch will be Halal with vegan options available) This will be a Covid-…

  • Public Forum: People's uprising in Sri Lanka

    • Online
    • Gadigal Country/Sydney
    • Naarm/Melbourne

    The success of Sri Lanka’s mass movement in forcing the removal of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is an incredible demonstration of people power.