Victorian Socialists

A few pics from yesterday's rally to defend and extend public housing - in opposition to Labor's plan to demolish much of what remains of public housing in Victoria in the midst of a major housing and homelessness crisis!

Some reflections from VS candidate for Richmond Chris Dite, who spoke at the rally (Insta: .dite.vs):

"At today’s rally against Labor’s demolition of public housing there was a real mood of hope and possibility. Residents’ associations across the city are getting organised and starting to fight back.

The last time we stopped the state government selling off public housing we did it by joining forces: residents’ associations, trade unions, and other community groups formed a block too hard to argue with.

The odds are harder this time. But Labor is reliant on the votes of the very people it wants to sell out to its private developer friends, and so it’s vulnerable. We need to expand the fightback onto all the estates, and into all the unions.

If you want to get involved in the fight to save and expand public housing (and for a world where housing is for living, not speculating in) join Victorian Socialists! Our next Richmond branch meeting is this 6.30pm Tuesday 2 June .melbourne 310 Smith St, Collingwood."

Wonderful news from Queensland. We absolutely love to see it. 🙌❤

It's official! We are registered in Queensland ✊️

Thanks to all our members for their efforts in making this happen.

Check your emails for important updates and upcoming events! Plus, it's been a year since we founded; please help us out and go confirm your membership has been renewed!

See you in the fight!

A wonderful write-up on our candidates and campaign in Brunswick and Pascoe Vale. You can meet Naomi Farmer (Brunswick) and Yasemin Shamsili (Pascoe Vale) and talk to members of our local campaign teams at our upcoming meet the candidates event at 3pm on Saturday 30th May at our volunteer centre at 83 Sydney Rd, Brunswick.

Register via the link in comments.

Victorian Socialists are hoping to have a big impact in their Brunswick heartland at the state election this November. Read and comment: https://brunswickvoice.com.au/socialists-dare-to-dream-big-in-brunswick/

A few more pics from our public forum 'Melbourne says NO to Hanson' which took place on Saturday at Coburg Town Hall. Thanks again to the 400+ people who made it along and to our wonderful panel of speakers. This is just the start of a long fight but we're more than ready for it! ✊

Shout out to Jordan van den Lamb for the pics.

Decent result for the Queensland Socialists in their first electoral outing. Liam Parry (who was listed as an independent because the party just missed out on registering in time) coming in fourth in a field of nine candidates with 3.8% of first preference votes. Well done comrades! 🙌

Thanks to the 400+ people who joined us at Coburg Town Hall this afternoon for our public forum - 'Melbourne says no to Hanson'. Particularly thanks to our wonderful speakers Dr Gary Foley, Ghaith Kreyme, Yasemin Shamsili and Omar Hassan.

The existence of billionaires - a tiny minority of parasites amassing obscene wealth from the exploitation of workers - is propaganda enough for socialism, but it's even better when they actually open their mouths.

The response to this budget is further proof that the biggest whingers in our society are big business and the super-rich (and their media propagandists). If they think some trust fund kid not being able to negatively gear their 5th investment property is communism, wait 'til they hear what we've got in store!

Chalmers says his budget is "ambitious". In reality it is entrenching class inequality. Money for weapons and handouts for businesses while they barely tinker around the edges of the unequal housing system.