"Best wishes to the Socialist Alliance and your campaign. So serious is the domination of the transnational corporations and economic rationalist ideology, all socialists and environmentalists must fight harder to link economics and ecological sustainability in a socialist way." — Jack Mundey, socialist, union and environmental activist
"The alliance of socialists deserves support from everyone concerned with human dignity. I welcome the opportunities the new organisation offers to show why capitalism is not the best we can achieve." — Humphrey McQueen, radical historian
"Socialist Alliance supports the right to strike, to picket effectively and to take industrial action in solidarity with other workers. For the first time in decades, public servants can vote for a party committed to our interests as public servants and to the interests of the public we serve. I encourage all CPSU members to join, support and vote Socialist Alliance." — Penny Shakespeare, president CPSU ACT branch
"The regressive actions of both sides of government have resulted in workplaces which are death traps. We need voices to raise these and other matters in parliament, at least as a start." — Peggy Trompf, Workers Health Centre, union activist
"There is a great need for an alternative left that will address extremely important issues including everyone's right to work under decent conditions with a decent income, the right to safety in the public and private sphere, disarmament, no uranium mining, peace, etc." — Ellen Kleimaker, women's and equity officer at Victorian Trades Hall Council
"When I first heard about the idea of the Socialist Alliance, these old bones straightened up a bit. I want to be able to participate with thousands of others to change this rotten society we live in. The Socialist Alliance can be an answer to the Hansonites. It can be an answer to rightwing Labor. It can be an answer to Howard because we do not operate on bottom lines. I'll be out there urging my black brothers and sisters to take heed of the Socialist Alliance. We need a party that is going to fight because nothing is going to be given to us."
Ray Jackson, Indigenous Social Justice Association
"Socialist Alliance offers a real alternative to the two-party tweedledum-tweedledee of capitalism. I hope that lots of union activists and rank-and-file workers join the Alliance and that it develops into a real alternative for the future."
Craig Johnston, Victorian State Secretary, AMWU
"Socialist Alliance is a good development in politics in Australia. It means a more diverse range of views in politics, particularly for workers."
Annie Delaney, Textile union organiser
"One thousand voices screaming are better than ten lots of 100. A united voice is very important. The voice of dissent is getting louder and louder and louder. People who can focus that are very important. That's why organisations like the Socialist Alliance are vital."
Rod Quantock, author and comedian
"The experience of militant unions like the TWU have shown the need for a major struggle against anti-union legislation and the employer attacks, as well as the policies of the economic rationalists in the Howard government. Before the Howard government, the ALP-ACTU accord began a process of weakening the union movement. The union movement needs a united union fightback. We welcome the formation of Socialist Alliance as part of that workers' fightback. We note Socialist Alliance's policy for full union rights, focusing on the right to organize and strike, the repeal of all anti-union laws, including the WRA and the industrial sections of the Trade Practices Act, and no individual contracts. Socialist Alliance will be an important new force, campaigning against the economic rationalism of both major parties and providing a progressive alternative to Pauline Hanson's racist One Nation. Workers are disillusioned and looking for answers. Socialist Alliance can help provide answers which point in a socialist, not right-wing, direction. We wish you well in your upcoming campaigns."
Hughie Williams, Qld secretary & federal president, Transport Workers Union
"I fully support the Alliance and all that it stands for. I hope the Alliance will come to be seen as representing the social conscience of the broad left within the Australian community."
Ken Fry, Labor MHR for Fraser, 1974-84
"Most of our members are not socialist. But when I took out the Socialist Alliance platform, they said: 'This is good. This is what we want'."
Dae Keum Kim, Korean Resource Centre
"Socialist Alliance is setting out a coherent set of economic, industrial and social policies which set the standard for all other parties of the left including the ALP. I welcome the launch of this new party and wish it well in being in the vanguard of the struggle to put people before markets and workers in front of employers. The history of policies in Australia shows that a strong party is needed to the left of the ALP in order to keep the ALP focused on its traditions and objectives."
Howard Guile, Qld secretary, National Tertiary and Education Union