Something to be proud of. ✊🇵🇸

Thanks to everyone who came to yesterday afternoon's launch of the campaign to defend free speech on Palestine at Brunswick Town Hall, featuring panelists @marykostakidis.bsky.social, @antounissa.bsky.social, Yasmeen Atieh, Mon Campo, Ohad Kozminsky, Marty Hirst, and our chair James McVicar.

The neo-Nazi involvement was obvious from the start but good nevertheless to see the Age report on this. "Footage analysed by this masthead as well as... The White Rose Society shows neo-Nazi leadership played a key role at every major march held in capital cities on August 31."

It's the same in Australia too - where the wealth of the richest 200 people increased by 160 percent in the decade from 2015 to 2025, to $667.8 billion. They're squeezing us for every penny and spending some of that money trying to convince us to blame anyone else but them!

Reminder! Join us this Sat 20th Sept, 2pm in Brunswick for this important forum. Those speaking up for Palestine have been censored, disciplined, slandered, repressed and criminalised, but we won't be silenced! Tickets ($10) and registration here: victoriansocialists.org.au/civicrm-even....

Right-wing logic: saying mean things about Charlie Kirk is beyond the pale and you should be fired. But describing the genocide in Gaza as a potential 'real estate bonanza' and discussing how to share the spoils is just fine. So many levels of hypocrisy and outright evil here.

The Age is reporting that the Victorian government may ditch group voting tickets for the 2026 state election. VS strongly supports this. The GVT system is profoundly undemocratic and allows unprincipled operators (on both the left and right), to game the system behind the backs of voters.

Great to see the familiar face of VS Bendigo councillor Owen Cosgriff in the news. "A Bendigo councillor has fired a warning to his colleagues that their cohort will be remembered as 'the council that killed the writers festival' if they don't conduct a transparent review of what went wrong."

Rallying against racism and fascism at Flinders St now. Still time to join before we march to parliament! ✊

Our best weapon against capitalist barbarism has always been collective mass struggle by workers, the poor and the oppressed, rather than individual acts of violence. The path of individual terror is one that ultimately only benefits the right.

Artists: How can we represent not just the state's repression of opposition to Israel, but the attempt to erase it completely from public life (and the ultimate impossibility of doing so)? Banksy (and the British authorities): hold my beer.

Some of the VS crew at today's ASU community sector walk-off for Palestine. Wonderful to see so many other unionists joining the rally in solidarity. ✊ 🇵🇸 ❤️

We're assembling now at the State Library on Swanston St for the ASU community sector walk-off for Palestine. There's still time to join and show your solidarity with these workers taking strike action to make a stand against the genocide in Gaza. ✊ 🇵🇸

Israel and its Western backers have the power, but we have the numbers. ✊ 🇵🇸

VS members working in the community sector are involved in organising a walk-out for Gaza taking place next Wednesday 10th September. Other workers and supporters are encouraged to show solidarity by joining the central strike rally meeting at 1pm at the State Library. ✊ 🇵🇸

The Socialist Party expresses its solidarity with those facing down extreme repression to protest against austerity, elite corruption, and police murders of activists as part of the #resetindonesia movement. ✊

Yep. Almost like the main priority of Israel supporters isn't really combating anti-semitism at all (if it was, you might expect them to express some concern when neo-Nazi thugs are marching in the streets), but rather attempting to silence those who are opposed to the genocide in Gaza.

ANALYSIS: “the Nazi rally was organised by Nazis”

Solidarity with all those making a stand against racism and fascism today. Together we can beat back the far-right politics of hatred and division - a politics that Australian bosses would LOVE to see entrenched within the Australian working-class. ✊

Some photos from a wonderfully successful launch of the VS Socialist Workers’ Caucus in Northcote yesterday, with well over 200 in attendance! ✊ ❤️ PHOTO CREDIT: Murray Enders

Big turnout for the launch of the VS Socialist Workers' Caucus happening now in Northcote. ♥️✊

RMIT students are currently holding a mass meeting in Bowen Lane as part of the nationwide student referendum on Palestine, voting on motions condemning the government for its complicity in the Gaza genocide and calling for sanctions on Israel. We absolutely love to see it. ❤️✊ 🇵🇸

So we can expel an ambassador without any publicly verifiable information but we can’t do the same thing to the ambassador of the apartheid state committing a genocide before our very eyes?

ASIO isn't a credible organisation (even Paul Keating recently described it as a 'goon show'). And whatever Iran may be responsible for, it's nothing in comparison to Israel. Expel the Israeli ambassador!

Victorian Socialists' Geelong branch is up and running - pictured at yesterday's rally which was the largest the city has seen for many years. ❤️ ✊ 🇵🇸

Inequality is much worse in Australia than most people think it is. "The average chief executive officer of companies listed on the ASX earns more than 100 times as much as the average full-time worker - but people think they earn just seven times as much".

A few pics from today's massive Palestine rally in Melbourne. Amazing to see more than 50,000 take to the streets. ♥️✊🇵🇸 PHOTO CREDIT: Murray Enders

Getting ready to march down Swanston St amid a crowd of more than 50,000. ♥️✊🇵🇸

Huge and rapidly building crowd outside the State Library now for Palestine. ✊🇵🇸

Comrades in Tassie get around it!

Sunday is shaping up to be the biggest pro-Palestine mobilisation in Australia's history (possibly the biggest anti-war mobilisation in general). Join the Socialist contingent in your city or town and let's keep up the pressure for a free Palestine! ✊🇵🇸

Join the Victorian Socialists contingent at the Melbourne leg of this Sunday's nationwide march for Palestine! VS members from across the state will be meeting at 12 noon at the La Trobe statue on the State Library lawns in the corner closest to La Trobe St. 🧵

"[Under AUKUS] Australia is expected to provide a total of $4.6bn (US$3bn) to the US expressly for the purpose of easing America’s own submarine maintenance and production delays." Could build >15,000 public housing units for that but I guess the US military needs it more 🤷

On 20 August, a historic meeting of over 160 freelancers with the Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) voted unanimously on motions moved by Victorian Socialists members in support for Palestine. This is just one example of what socialists can do in their unions to make Palestine a union issue

Some of the VS Socialist Workers' Caucus crew with their freshly painted banner at today's Palestine rally in the city. We're holding an official launch of the SWC on Saturday 30th August at 4pm in Northcote. Details and registration here: victoriansocialists.org.au/swc_launch. ✊ 🇵🇸

For those who still think the violence only started on 7 October 2023 (and the massacre referred to here is just one of many Israel has committed since 1948).

Register for the launch of the @vicsocialists.bsky.social Socialist Workers' Caucus here: victoriansocialists.org.au/swc_launch youtu.be/0fiek8Nw27w

RIP the legendary David Stratton who not only was monitored by ASIO for suspected communist sympathies but also once gave a film - 'The Replacements' - zero stars because "It is a film which celebrates strike-breakers and scabs". Read the transcript here: letterboxd.com/margaret_dav...

When you are waiting for hours in an emergency department waiting room, take solace in this half billion dollar military base. To protect us from no known threat. #AusPol

No surprises indeed. Australia's economy is geared towards squeezing workers ever-harder to generate mega-profits for big banks and other major corporations. The rich and their political servants will celebrate these figures as an economic win meanwhile millions struggle just to survive day to day.

Provisional results in the Darebin Northwest ward by-election caused by the terribly sad death of Gaetano Greco: his successor will be Angela Villella, from the Darebin Progressive Independent Network that he established before his death. Labor knocked to 3rd, the Vic Socialists have come in 2nd!

A very good statement from the Palestine Action Group Sydney on the Australian government's imminent recognition of a Palestinian state. As they say "We will not settle for symbolic diplomacy while genocide continues".

The VS crew at yesterday's massive march for Palestine in the city. It was a historic day for our movement - another sign that whatever Australia's Israeli-supporting establishment might think, the majority of working-class people are on the side of basic humanity against genocide and war. ✊🇵🇸

Amazing win for the Palestine campaign - the tide is turning! All out tomorrow to march for humanity and an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza! Here in Naarm/Melbourne we'll be meeting 12pm at the State Library to march on King St bridge. ✊ 🇵🇸

A reminder about this important rally to save Victoria's public housing happening tomorrow, Saturday 2nd August, 11am the State Library. Among the speakers will be VS's Steph Price - a long-time public housing advocate and community lawyer helping tenants stand up to their landlords.

Happy to be on trend. Capitalism is failing all but the super-rich - driving ever deepening crises of war, inequality, and environmental destruction. New socialist movements and parties are growing rapidly around the world, and Australia is no exception. Join us: www.socialists.org.au.

Great turnout for the @nswsocialists.bsky.social launch in Sydney. Wonderful to see so many people getting involved in our movement. 🙌

Join us on Saturday 30th August in Northcote for the launch of the VS Socialist Workers' Caucus. Hear from VS union activists, link up with other workers in your industry, and talk about what we can do to rebuild our trade unions as a genuine fighting force for change.

It's clear supporters of Israel's genocide in Gaza have lost the argument when even Betoota is posting like this.

VS encourages its members and supporters to attend this important rally to save public housing next Saturday 2nd August, 11am at the State Library on Swanston St - organised by @rahunion.bsky.social, the Save Public Housing Collective, and others.