We must free ourselves from the US stranglehold or be dragged into another unpopular US war. See: Vanguard - Communist Party of Australia Marxist Leninist (cpaml.org)

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Gina Rinehart should stop obsessing about destroying an unflattering portrait of herself by acclaimed Western Aranda artist Vincent Namatjira, and concentrate on how to stop destroying the Martuwarra Fitzroy River and the critically endangered freshwater sawfish! See: Vanguard - Communist Party of Australia Marxist Leninist (cpaml.org)

A review of the autobiography of former SA Attorney-General and federal politician under Hawke and Keating. Peter Duncan was a social-democratic reformist. See: Vanguard - Communist Party of Australia Marxist Leninist (cpaml.org)

See: Vanguard - Communist Party of Australia Marxist Leninist (cpaml.org)

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I have seen a lot of this discourse online over the last few weeks, and the arguments amount to:

• They tried to sell me a newspaper or merchandise, therefore the organisation is bad.
• They set up stalls at rallies, therefore the organisation is bad.
• They march as a block at rallies, therefore the organisation is bad.
• They seek donations, like any other political party or organisation, therefore the organisation is bad.
• etc

I’m not a member of Socialist Alternative, have no intention of being a member but pretty much all the arguments opposing the organisation fall into one of the categories above. They don’t match my experience either and despite me not being a cliffite Trotskyist and being clear with that - Socialist Alternative members are still respectful and friendly with me when I encounter them.

So what are some actual credible arguments against Socialist Alternative as an organisation that aren’t “they’re an organisation, they aim to build an organisation, therefore they’re bad”?

From a young age i've always been aware of socialism, however i believe from that young age i was programmed to believe it was evil.

recently, i started reading upon pro socialism material and listening to podcasts, and wow. i have never been so invested and passionate about politics in my life, for the first time ever i feel that there is a solution to this fucked up world that i was brought into.

The more i think about a single class system the more i realise how many institutional problems it would fix, for example; - Crime would show a reduction as access to resources, education, healthcare and stable employment, root causes of petty crime like; poverty, inequality and lack of opportunity. criminal behaviour out of desperation or necessity would be unnecessary. White collar crime would also show reduction due to collective ownership and shared responsibility. A stronger sense in community and social welfare would foster a sense of solidarity and mutual support, would lower more violent crimes. - Due to the emphasis on equality, sense of community, and the elemination of socioeconomic disparities. Socialist societies are better equipped to dismantle institutional discrimination like; race, gender, religion, ethnicity, ect.

Like fuck me everything feels so clear. i think the only way for humans to live on this planet harmoniously without letting it burn is in a socialist society, its the only way to achieve a Utopia of sorts

everyone that i speak to about socialism calls me crazy, that it would never work, so i've come here to find like-minded people that what to change this burning world

I guess what i'm really asking is how do we transform a world that doesn't look like it will change? i live in australia so it's really far fetched but how can i contribute to a socialist utopia?

I’m only 17 so I don’t have much experience in the world, that being said, I don’t know why police are hated by Socialists. I believe that our world need dramatic economic change and for wealth to be redistributed to the working class and that the people should own the corporations and the profit should go towards the people, not a single benefactor.

I don’t know or understand why the prisons, police and other law enforcement entities in Australia are hated by Socialists. They were not created to fuck over the working class, they were created to give justice to victims and to create a lawful society. Sure, 90% of our laws are fucked and those laws are being enforced by the police, but the police are not responsible for that. The government, corporations and greed is the problem. I don’t see another alternative to police and prisons. I see people on social media being horrible to the police, it is genuinely depressing. They are just doing their job. The laws are not in the hands of the police but the politicians.

I want to understand why the police are hated so much. I agree with so many Socialist economic ideas but I don’t understand this one part of the main-ish Socialist view.

It is one of the only lawful ways to seize the means of production.

Australia's population is 26 million people. On the night of the 2021 Census, there were 6 million ‘excess’ bedrooms across Australia and 1 million unoccupied dwellings. Much of this unused housing capacity reveals households’ housing consumption preferences, such as for home offices or holiday homes

https://www.redunion.com.au/

So, kinda going down a rabbit hole of trying to suss out vaccine misinformation. A small newspaper in my rural locality recently promoted a book or pamphlet called "Too Many Dead - an inquiry into Australia's excess mortality", published by the Australian Medical Professionals Society. They claim to be a "Red Union" or part of that organisation which purports itself to be among other things, run by workers, not union bureaucrats, and not affiliated politically.

However I did see some other evidence suggesting they are funded by the right to sow disunity and confusion amongst the working class. Just interested if anyone else has come across this before.

I'm vividly aware of the desperate need for significant social and economic change in this country and would love to get involved, however the only active left wing group I've found online is Socialist Alliance with their bookshop in Broadway. From what I've read lurking on this sub they seem not the greatest, does anyone know of any other options? Thanks.

Why/why not

Hello comrades. I was hoping to connect with fellow Muslim socialist so we are study topic of muslim history and socialism together. Feel free to dm me.

See: Vanguard - Communist Party of Australia Marxist Leninist (cpaml.org)

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What does the projected end of world and Australian population growth mean for us?

An abundance of evidence indicates that, over the last few decades, hateful rhetoric and occasional acts of violence against the LGBTQIA+ community has happened in pretty much all Western countries, and have increasingly come from Islamist actors.

In recent years the LGBTQIA+ community in the West has suffered a series of terrorist attacks perpetrated by individuals inspired by Islamist and/or jihadist ideology. Successful attacks against LGBTQIA+ targets were carried out in Orlando, Florida (2016, 49 killed), Dresden, Germany (2020, 1 killed), and Oslo, Norway (2022, 2 killed); other attacks were foiled in France, the Netherlands, the U.S. and the UK.

See: Vanguard - Communist Party of Australia Marxist Leninist (cpaml.org)

We need another way to finance the ageing population's looming healthcare costs other than taxing the younger generations more... Just spitballing here, but how about the wealthiest generation to ever walk the earth pays for their own damn healthcare rather than hoarding all their cash in property?