Dignity and security for older people – Victorian Socialists

Young people deserve better – Victorian Socialists

Young people struggle to find secure work and decent, affordable housing. We support the right to vote at 16, full adult pay, and liveable welfare payments.

Housing for all – Victorian Socialists

Housing should be a right, not a commodity. We’re fighting for a five-year rent freeze, 150,000 new public homes, and a ban on hoarding property.

Fix the health crisis – Victorian Socialists

Healthcare should be universal and free, not for profit. We’re fighting for fully funded public health and the expansion of free community health clinics.

Seniors Are Fighting New Senior Housing as US Faces Shortage

America’s elders need more places to live, but even in liberal enclaves that recognize the problem, developers are facing the fiercest foes of all: America’s elders.

Workers' power – Victorian Socialists

Everyone deserves well paid, secure work. We’re fighting for the right to strike, a $35 minimum wage on government-funded work, and an end to wage theft.

Disability justice – Victorian Socialists

Disabled people have a right to independence and equal access to services. We’re fighting to re-fund public disability services cut after the NDIS rollout.

Police, prisons and human rights – Victorian Socialists

‘Law and order’ politics fills prisons without addressing root causes. We’ll redirect police budget increases into public housing, youth and social services.

Jasmine Duff – Victorian Socialists

We’ve seen how Labor and the Liberals treat ordinary people, and there’s no hope in waiting for them to change. Real change always comes from the bottom up.

Fighting for women’s liberation – Victorian Socialists

Women’s oppression is part of the fabric of capitalism. We’re fighting for free, accessible abortion, expanded paid parental leave, and free childcare.

Accessible and sustainable transport – Victorian Socialists

Public transport should be public. We’re fighting to reverse the privatisation of transport, make it free, and upgrade regional rail services.

How will we pay for it? – Victorian Socialists

We live in a rich state, yet resources are unevenly shared. We want to tax the wealth of the billionaires and banks. This wealth should fund essential services.

Belonging Is a Right, Not a Reward 

CW: Ableism Disabled people have been made to prove their worth for too long. Society sees value in work, earnings, or productivity, and anyone who doesn’t meet these standards is expected to…

Put politicians on worker's wage – Victorian Socialists

Politicians should live more like the rest of us. We’ll fight to cap MPs' wages at $96,000 (a sixth-year nurse’s wage) and end their perks.

Jordan van den Lamb – Victorian Socialists

Melbourne is run for the rich. Property developers, banks and big corporations make a killing while working-class people are forced to choose between housing, food and healthcare.

Freedom Now | Polity: Vol 52, No 3

Left-wing politics is resurgent. Self-proclaimed socialists are unexpectedly popular. Proposals like universal health care are a commonplace of Democratic campaigns. But there is not yet a clear, unifying idea behind this political shift. We propose that that idea is freedom. While the left once understood freedom as emancipation from the economy, the right spent the twentieth century neutralizing and appropriating the idea of freedom by reinventing the economy as the true site of freedom. To reclaim freedom as a value of the left, we have to begin with the daily experience of most people: the unfreedom of the workplace. The authoritarian organization of work is not just an offense against freedom; it also helps us understand how freedom requires emancipation both from the economy and within the economy, and why that emancipation requires mass struggle.