Moderately new to leftism, can anyone give a rundown/advice on the state of the left and the left wing parties in Australia?
Currently Ive only really noticed two groups in my city - Socialist Alliances and Socialist Alternative (The Communist Party seems to be mainly a LARP/club for boomers) both mainly from their newspaper sellers though the latter also seems to have the only large scale conferences.
Outside of Refugees/immigration and Adani what are some of the key struggles/issues to focus on?
Not Left two SocDem groups in Vic with 1000 members each and some local council seats Bunkerism / Anti-Revisionist ML sect with 100 members on a good day good manifesto though Best Economic Manifesto and policies in Parliament atm
Josiah Reyes
Housing Crisis The Cost of Living Generational Unemployment
Easton Foster
Is there any important differences between them?
Arent they really actually reactionary though?
Are you a member of any of these parties or just someone knowledgeable about the situation here? Would you recommend any of them (including for people who dont live in the Eastern States)?
Socialist Alternative at least on paper at least claims to be Marxist and socialist (Trotskyism) but their basically just SocDems in actual policy
Katter Himself and the Social Policy he Pushes is reactionary as fuck but hes stated that Social Shit "is a matter of personal conscience" and mostly attempts to put economics first
Nah I like to thin of myself like that yes If they werent such an absolute meme then i would consider joining Communist party AUS And i guess if i was a Countryfag and lived in Qld id just vote Katter probably
Leo Russell
I like how Melbourne has become to the Coalition what cities like L.A and SanFran are in the USA to Republicans basically just a Strawman of "what our country will look like if dem Loony LibTARD COMMIES take over XD" all cuz of Muh Africans
David Miller
Is this the 2nd or 3rd Aus general we've had? I sometimes get a Socialist Alliance newspaper at uni, I think they're alright.
It really annoys me because Victoria has all our best working class history and right wingers paint us like liberal California or something.
Jose Adams
CPA is hardly "Anti Revisionist ML". Their political line is all over the place, and they have no real consistent political line. Most of them believe that China is a shining example of socialism, and answers will vary person to person whether or not the DPRK is a socialist state or a "fascist state", whether Syria is "socialist" or not, whether we should denounce Iran or not.
The party is, for the most part, a dinosaur party that has been able to attract a handful of college students precisely because their political line is so vague and under-developed. "Socialism means whatever you want it to mean".
As for the other parties -
CPA (ML): Former RIMite affiliated ML-MZT party. Better, more consistent political line that CPA, but they hold some weird positions (eg, that Australia is a "neo-colony" of the US). May or may not actually exist in the real world (Party is clandestine, so unknowable how big they actually are)
SALT: Imperial Soc-Dems/"Cruise missile socialists". Liberals/SJWs with red flags. Will shill for US foreign policy until their lungs burst.
SEQ/Salliance: Literally who?
Katters: Moderate, non racialist turd positionism Light. The most "radical" actually existing political force in mainstream politics. Think Hugh Long in 1930's US.
In short: There is no real, actually competent Communist Party in Australia right now.
Nathan Evans
FOR FUCKS SAKE DO I REALLY HAVE TO CREATE MY OWN PARTY IF I WANT A GOOD AUSSIE COMMIE ORG?
