Socialist Alliance

  • Film Screening: Gaza Fights for Freedom

    • Naarm / Melbourne

    Gaza Fights for Freedom is a 2019 documentary that was filmed during the height of the Great March of Return protests and captures Palestinian resistance to the occupation and is directed by international journalist Abby Martin.

  • Why Israel is an apartheid state

    • Online

    The latest war against the Palestinians was provoked by Israel's attempts to evict Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in East Jerusalem.

  • Director Robynne Murphy discusses her documentary Women of Steel

    • Muloobinba / Newcastle

    Wollongong, 1980: Denied jobs at the steelworks – the city’s main employer – working class / migrant women refused to accept discrimination. They began a campaign for the right to work that lasted for fourteen years. Their battle against BHP, the country’s richest and most powerful company, took them from factory gate to the highest court in the land and changed the rules for women throughout Australia

  • 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…

  • Ecosocialism 2020 - From Rebellion to Revolution

    • Boorloo / Perth

    Capitalism is sending humanity and the planet on a collision course towards ecocide. The COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting just how deadly agribusiness, deforestation and the unending pursuit of private profit really is. It has also shown that governments can move fast when they need to: social safety nets have been put in place — albeit temporary ones — including those we were…

  • Capitalism & Violence against Women: The New Resistance

    • Naarm / Melbourne

    Public forum Capitalism & Violence against women: The New Resistance Tuesday March 17th, 6.30pm (meal available from 6pm) Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston St , Melbourne CBD Women around the world are leading new campaigns against misogynist violence and harassment and the promotion of sexism by conservative governments and right-wing populist forces. This forum will…

  • Is the Green New Deal a way forward?

    • Kaurna Yerta / Adelaide

    Learn more about the GND, and join the discussion Is it a good first step in the right direction? Or is it a cunning subterfuge to make us think we’re solving the problems without really tackling the underlying cause, i.e. capitalism. Is a just, sustainable economy actually possible under capitalism? Sunday, August 4th, 2-4 p.m. …

  • Conference: For the people, not the profiteers

    • Gadigal Country / Sydney

    A one-day conference, hosted by NSW Socialist Alliance, discussing socialist solutions to inequality, racism, sexism and ecocide. The full agenda can be seen at the FB event as speakers and sessions are confirmed. It will also discuss the 2019 policy platform that Socialist Alliance is preparing for the NSW state elections next…