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Socialist Alternative
Founded	1995; 30 years ago (1995)
Split from	International Socialist Organisation
Headquarters	Melbourne, Victoria
Newspaper	Red Flag
Ideology	Marxism Revolutionary socialism Trotskyism Anti-capitalism
Political position	Left-wing to far-left
City of Maribyrnong	1 / 7
Website
sa.org.au redflag.org.au
Politics of Australia Political parties Elections

Socialist Alternative (SA) is a Trotskyist organisation in Australia. As a revolutionary socialist group, it describes itself as aiming to organise collective struggles against oppression and inequality while promoting the need for a revolutionary movement that could one day overthrow capitalism. Its members have organised numerous campaigns and protests around LGBT rights, climate change, racism, refugee rights and more. The organisation also intervenes in the trade union and student union movements. It has branches and student clubs in most major Australian cities and publishes the fortnightly newspaper Red Flag.

SA organises the annual Marxism Conference in Melbourne, a public event featuring discussions on radical history, revolutionary theory and anti-capitalist politics.

Since 2018, the organisation has led the Victorian Socialists electoral alliance, a project dedicated to running socialist candidates in federal, state and local council elections. The Victorian Socialists won their first elected position in November 2020, when Socialist Alternative member Jorge Jorquera was elected to Maribyrnong Council.

History

Socialist Alternative was established in 1995 by ex-members of the former International Socialist Organisation (ISO) in Melbourne. Following debates over the orientation of the ISO to the Australian political situation, the members were expelled for arguing that the ISO held "overblown" expectations of the 1990s combined with "a super-inflated estimation" of its capabilities. This was part of the debate internationally within the International Socialist Tendency over the nature of the contemporary political situation and how socialists should respond, with the leading organisation in the Tendency, the British Socialist Workers Party arguing, the 1990s were like "the 1930s in slow motion". Like in Australia, splits occurred within the IST in other countries, including New Zealand, Greece, Germany, Canada, South Africa and France. In addition to splits, the International Socialist Organization in the United States were expelled from the IST.

Socialist Alternative has links with several other groups previously part of the IST, such as the ISO in America, the Internationalist Workers' Left in Greece, Socialisme International in France, and Socialist Aotearoa and the International Socialist Organisation in New Zealand. Since 2013, Socialist Alternative has maintained permanent observer status within the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, a worldwide organisation of revolutionary Marxists.

Until 2003, Socialist Alternative was based primarily in Melbourne, when the organisation began establishing branches in other Australian cities following a surge of growth out of the S11 protests against the 2000 World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne. Socialist Alternative now claims to have the largest active membership of any far-left organisation in the country.

Socialist Alternative was invited to join the Socialist Alliance in 2001. The Alliance grouped the Democratic Socialist Perspective, the ISO, and other Australian far-left groups and individuals. Socialist Alternative eventually declined to join due to the Socialist Alliance's strong emphasis on running in parliamentary elections. Socialist Alternative saw this parliamentary emphasis in the flat political climate as a restriction to building activism on the ground and representing a turn towards reformist politics. Socialist Alternative entered into unity discussions with the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), which had split from the DSP in 2012, and which included the notable member Van Thanh Rudd (the nephew of former Labor Party (ALP) Prime Minister Kevin Rudd). This merger proposal prompted the Socialist Alliance to reopen unity discussions with Socialist Alternative. In March 2013, Socialist Alternative merged with the RSP, a small organisation expelled from the Democratic Socialist Perspective in 2008.

In 2018, Socialist Alternative helped to establish the Victorian Socialists, an electoral project to win federal, state, and local council positions for socialist candidates in the state of Victoria.

In 2020, SA member Jorge Jorquera was elected as the Victorian Socialist candidate to Maribyrnong Council.

Campaigns

Socialist Alternative has organised or participated in campaigns and protests around issues including industrial relations, student unions and higher education, Aboriginal rights, refugee rights, women's rights, LGBTI rights, the environment, and free speech. They have been involved in anti-war, anti-racist, anti-Zionist, anti-capitalist, anti-corporate, and anti-uranium mining demonstrations.

Socialist Alternative has been involved in organising within anti-war campaign groups such as the Stop the War Coalition and has participated in demonstrations across the country, including the protests against the 2011 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, the 2008–2009 war on Gaza, the 2007 APEC Conference, the 2006 G20 Summit, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan, and have been involved in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign and solidarity actions with the Arab Spring.

Since 2004, the Socialist Alternative has participated in the Equal Love campaign – the main campaign group that advocates marriage equality in the country. Many Socialist Alternative members have been elected as National Union of Students Queer Officers and have used this position to promote Equal Love and attack the Rudd-Gillard Government for not repealing John Howard's ban on same-sex marriage. Several Socialist Alternative members are notable for their same-sex marriage activism. Member and Victorian Equal Love Convenor Ali Hogg was voted the most influential LGBTI Australian by Samesame.com.au and the sixth most influential Melburnian by The Age for her activism for gay and lesbian rights in 2011. Member Roz Ward co-founded the Safe Schools Coalition Australia, the organisation that organised the Safe Schools Program.

Since early 2009, Socialist Alternative has been involved in building Students for Palestine, and campus activity, including the protests against the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid and helping fundraise for the Viva Palestina 5. In 2011, Socialist Alternative members were among 19 arrested in a Melbourne demonstration targeting Israeli-owned chocolate chain Max Brenner for its donations to the Israeli Defence Forces, as part of the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign supporting Palestinians against the state of Israel. SA has been called anti-Semitic by the Australasian Union of Jewish Students and other organisations which claim that support for Palestinians is a form of anti-Semitism. Socialist Alternative maintains that Israel does not represent Jews but only claims to do so, and argues that their group takes "a firm stand against all forms of racism, including anti-Semitism". Socialist Alternative has pointed out that they have "supported innumerable protests against anti-Semitic bigots such as the Holocaust denier David Irving" and that Israel's most strident critics are often Jewish themselves, citing the anti-Zionism of Jewish Marxists Leon Trotsky and Rosa Luxemburg, who saw it as an imperialist ideology.

Socialist Alternative has been involved in the campaign for refugee rights, building campaigns to mobilise opposition to the policies of mandatory detention and offshore processing. In 2002 they built the protests against detention centre at Woomera, which led to a mass breakout of refugees. Since the election of the Rudd-Gillard Labor government in 2007, they have continued to organise and campaign around the issue.

Membership routine

Branches

The organisation has branches in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth, Adelaide and Wollongong. In Melbourne, Socialist Alternative is based at Victorian Trades Hall. Branches hold meetings to discuss current political developments and Marxist history and theory. Socialist Alternative advertises public meetings through leafleting on street stalls, campuses, at demonstrations, and through bill posters.

Student activism

Socialist Alternative maintains student clubs at many universities around Australia, and their political work often emphasises student-based campaigns. The group is involved in organising student protest actions around several issues which often draw national attention, such as a stunt during a 2014 episode of Q&A demonstrating opposition to government plans for increased higher education fees, the large nationwide protests in response to the 2019–20 Australian bushfire crisis, or a protest against former Liberal Party Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

According to National Executive member Mick Armstrong, Socialist Alternative's focus on student work is part of a perspective that the organisation has adopted for the political period due to what they see as their limited size and influence in the working class movement and the lack of any substantial radicalisation in society. Socialist Alternative's political orientation to students mirrors the development of the British Socialist Workers Party during the 1980s.

Socialist Alternative participates in campus student union elections and the National Union of Students as a faction and claims to be the largest to the left of the National Labor Students. As revolutionary socialists, the group opposes both the Liberal and Labor parties. It has come under attack from a range of factions in student politics, including Liberal students, both Left and Right Labor students and claims to have been slandered by the Australasian Union of Jewish Students for its strong support for the Palestinian liberation struggle and consequent opposition to the state of Israel.

Socialist Alternative members have been active in student unions at universities such as Queensland University, Swinburne University of Technology, La Trobe University, University of Melbourne, RMIT, University of Western Sydney, University of Sydney, Charles Sturt University, Curtin University of Technology, University of New South Wales, and Victorian College of the Arts. The organisation's membership also includes secondary school students active in their schools.

Socialist Alternative was deregistered as an official club by the Monash Student Association in September 2014, cutting them off from student union funding. This occurred in the aftermath of a campus meeting held by SA in support of Palestinians struggling against the Israeli military's Operation Protective Edge. Socialist Alternative argued that similar meetings took place at campuses around Australia, at a time when several Australian student unions were passing motions "opposing Israeli war crimes and occupation" and large demonstrations were being held in support of Palestine. Matthew Lesh, Political Affairs Director of the pro-Israel Australasian Union of Jewish Students and a spokesperson for the Young Liberals, claimed that a group of Jewish students were denied entry to the Monash meeting based on their religion and assumed political beliefs. Socialist Alternative denied this claim, noting that the pro-Palestinian event's main speaker was Jewish, and a particular group of students were denied entry after they had refused to sign a petition condemning Israel's economic blockade of Gaza, and had attempted to disrupt the meeting. Academics around Australia signed an open letter opposing the deregistration of the Monash club as "the most serious attack yet in a nationwide campaign to stifle free speech on university campuses”.

Trade unionism

Members of Socialist Alternative who are employed are politically active within the trade union appropriate for their industry. Socialist Alternative's members are active in trade unions, including the National Tertiary Education Union, in which lecturer and Socialist Alternative member Liam Ward was elected to the RMIT University Branch Committee as part of a left-wing oppositional ticket that replaced the previously established union leadership in 2010.

Socialist Alternative rejects the practice of forming separate 'red unions', arguing that such projects isolate socialists from the organised working class and are premised on a top-down method of artificially substituting a radical union leadership for the rank and file, instead arguing for activists to rebuild rank and file organisation within existing unions irrespective of their conservative leadership. In 2010, Socialist Alternative member and Queensland Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association delegate Duncan Hart organised supporters of same-sex marriage within the union in a rank-and-file challenge against the socially conservative SDA leader Joe de Bruyn.

Theory

Though one of Socialist Alternative's stated aims is to contribute towards building a revolutionary party that can intervene in – and lead – mass working-class struggles, they do not consider themselves a political party at their current size and influence. Originating in the political tradition of the International Socialist Tendency, Socialist Alternative defend the position that a socialist revolution can only come about through "workers taking control of their workplaces, dismantling existing state institutions (parliaments, courts, the armed forces and police) and replacing them with an entirely new state based on genuinely democratic control by the working class". Describing itself as a "propaganda group" at its current size, Socialist Alternative attempts to relate to its audience primarily on the level of ideas, rather than seeing itself as a party that can be capable of leading mass struggles. While Socialist Alternative supports existing trade unions as essential components of workers' struggles, it believes that capitalism can only be successfully overthrown if a revolutionary party is built to challenge the hold of the ALP and the trade union bureaucracy over the working class, in conjunction with similar parties internationally.

In 2012 the Police Federation of Australia demanded that the Victorian Trades Hall Council cancel a Socialist Alternative public forum on "police racism and violence", as Trades Hall was where the meeting was to take place. The Council complied with the Police Federation's request; however, the meeting went ahead after several people turned up for the meeting and occupied the Trades Hall foyer, causing the Police Federation to split from the Council.

Socialist Alternative sees Russia's October 1917 Bolshevik revolution as a genuine socialist revolution. However, it asserts that the following "imperialist" attack on the country and the failure of the revolution to spread to Western Europe led to its ultimate defeat by Stalin's "counter-revolution".

Australian parties

SA is hostile to the conservative Liberal Party and is highly critical of the Labor Party (ALP) for its perceived rightward shift and acceptance of neo-liberalism. SA classifies the ALP as a "capitalist workers' party" – seeing it as qualitatively different from the Liberal Party due to its organisational relationship with the trade union bureaucracy – that still governs in the interests of the capitalist class. Socialist Alternative is critical of the ALP's Fair Work Australia, which it sees as a similar version of the Liberal's WorkChoices, alongside its maintenance of the Australian Building and Construction Commission.

Socialist Alternative describes the Greens as a middle-class party equally committed to maintaining Australian capitalism as the two major parties and accuses them of "populist left nationalism". Socialist Alternative rejects reformism outright and defends Rosa Luxemburg's position in her work Social Reform or Revolution that reformism is "not the realisation of socialism, but the reform of capitalism".

Elections

Socialist Alternative maintains that parliamentary elections are not the key to social change. However, it does not reject voting in elections outright and sees elections reflecting the state of mass political consciousness. Therefore, the organisation promotes whom it votes for and whom it believes the left should support during election periods, for example, calling for the left to unite around SYRIZA in the 2012 Greek legislative election. It has also run members as candidates and supported Stephen Jolly for the Victorian Socialists political party in Victorian elections.

In the 2018 Victorian state and 2019 federal elections, Socialist Alternative campaigned alongside the Socialist Alliance to support the newly founded left-wing political party, the Victorian Socialists.

In 2020, Socialist Alternative member Jorge Jorquera was elected as the Victorian Socialists candidate for Maribyrnong Council in Melbourne.

Publications

From 2009 to 2011, members of the organisation edited the annual online theoretical journal Marxist Interventions (MI). The overall aim of MI was to make Australian Marxist writings more readily accessible to audiences.

In 2010, the organisation launched a biannual theoretical journal, Marxist Left Review, edited by Sandra Bloodworth. The journal aims to "engage with theoretical and political debates on the Australian and international left".

Socialist Alternative also hosts an annual Marxist political conference named Marxism, the largest conference of its kind in Australia.

See also

• Socialism in Australia
• Victorian Socialists – an electoral alliance formed by Socialist Alternative and others on the Melbourne left
• Equal Love
• Refugee Action Collective
• Stop the War Coalition

Notes

1. Jorge Jorquera was elected as a member of the Victorian Socialists.

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External links

• Socialist Alternative official website
• Red Flag online newspaper by Socialist Alternative
• Marxist Left Review Biannual theoretical journal by Socialist Alternative
• Marxism Conference Socialist Alternative annual national conference
• Equal Love Campaign group for same-sex marriage rights in Australia
• Refugee Action Collective Campaign group for refugee advocacy in Australia

Further reading

• "Socialist Alternative Publications". Socialist Alternative. 17 June 2015. Publications written by Socialist Alternative.
• Mick, Armstrong (Spring 2010). "The origins of Socialist Alternative: summing up the debate". Marxist Left Review (1). Journal article summarising the group's origins up to 2010.
• Armstrong, Mick. "From little things big things grow". Archived from the original on 21 May 2010. Socialist Alternative book on strategies for building socialist organisations.
• "Socialist Alternative and the ISO – Perspectives for Socialists". SA on ISO.
• "Socialist Alternative – Institution". Reason in Revolt.
• O'Lincoln, Tom. Marching Down Marx Street: The International Socialists in Australia, 1972-92. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012.

• Anti-imperialism in Oceania
• Far-left politics in Australia
• Organizations established in 1995
• Trotskyist organisations in Australia
• International Socialist Tendency
• Trotskyism in Australia
• Anti-racism in Australia
• Anti-Zionism in Australia
• Student politics in Australia
• Students' unions in Australia
• Fourth International (post-reunification)
• 1995 establishments in Australia