Socialist Alternative (Australia)
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Socialist Alternative (SA or SAlt) 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.[4]
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Socialist Alternative | |
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Abbreviation | SA, SAlt[1] |
Founded | 1995; 29 years ago (1995)[2] |
Split from | International Socialist Organisation |
Headquarters | Melbourne, Victoria |
Newspaper | Red Flag |
Ideology | Marxism Revolutionary socialism Trotskyism Anti-capitalism |
Political position | Left-wing[3] to far-left |
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sa redflag | |
SA organises the annual Marxism Conference in Melbourne, a public event featuring discussions on radical history, revolutionary theory and anti-capitalist politics.[5]
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.