We highly recommend the latest ep. of The Party Line - a podcast hosted by VS members @purplepingers.bsky.social, Omar Hassan and Anneke Demanuele (link below). A great antidote to all the right-wing bs trying to link the ISIS terror attack at Bondi to the movement against Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Everything wrong with society summed up in one headline. The world is being ravaged by war, inequality, and environmental destruction so the worst people on the planet - the likes of Gina Rinehart and Elon Musk - can keep piling up their wealth to the point of criminal absurdity.

Trump’s recently published National Security Strategy clearly outlines its approach to Venezuela. 1/3

Rallying to oppose the US attack on Venezuela at Flinders St Station this evening. ✊

Yep. ✅

HANDS OFF VENEZUELA EMERGENCY PROTESTS! MELBOURNE: Sunday 4 January, 5pm, Flinders Street Station SYDNEY: Sunday 4 January, 6pm, Sydney Town Hall BRISBANE: Sunday 4 January, 5pm, King George Square CANBERRA: Sunday 4 January, PERTH: Monday 5 January, 5:30pm, US Consulate (16 St Georges Tce)

Reports indicate the US military has begun an attack on Venezuela. The Socialist Party extends our solidarity to the Venezuelan people being subject to Trump's terror campaign. Oppose US imperialist aggression! Stop the bombing now!

Come celebrate with the VS Socialist Workers' Caucus! We’ll talk about what we’ve been up to in 2025, lessons learnt, and what's next for 2026 in our project of rebuilding a socialist current in our unions and in society more broadly ✊️ Drinks and nibbles provided 🎶

Socialist Party statement on last night's horrific attack in Bondi.

Union members at the State Library are fighting job cuts. Library workers provide invaluable public services to the community, from research support to children's programming to free computer access. Join their rally outside the library at 12:30pm on Sat 13th December!

Another win for Victoria. 👍

Amazing! We love to see it. Props to @risingtideaus.bsky.social for the massive effort in organising the entire People’s Blockade weekend, bringing activists from all over the country to fight climate change and the profiteering fossil fuel industry!

Massive props to the public school teachers (socialist and non-socialist alike) who are pushing back against the Queensland government's attempt to force through an agreement that will cut their pay and do nothing for their conditions. ✊ 🙌 ❤️

Tonight 6pm at Kathleen Syme Library in Carlton join us for a public forum on the fight to save cohealth. Ft. community healthcare doctor Shaday Wheatley and VS candidate for Richmond Chris Dite.

Join us this Friday in Brunswick for a book launch hosted by the VS Socialist Workers' Caucus and Socialists on the Tools. Come for the history of some of Australia’s most inspiring efforts at building working-class power. Stay for the discussion of the lessons for rebuilding union power today.

When it comes to the housing crisis, supply is only part of the picture. The system is currently so rigged for wealthy investors and developers that it's often profitable for them to keep properties empty, rather than sell them or rent them out. This urgently needs to change!

Well done to everyone who has devoted countless hours in recent weeks to the community campaign against the Cohealth closures for making this partial victory possible. The fight, however, isn't over, and we'll be continuing to organise and protest in the coming weeks and months!

Entirely accurate depiction of global capitalism today by NT Socialists member Dani (Insta: enkidooby_doo).

A statement on our application to change our party's name to the Socialist Party to enable us to run in federal elections Australia-wide, on our application to register as 'NSW Socialists' in NSW, and on our pursuit of unity with the Socialist Alliance. victoriansocialists.org.au/news/elector...

Rallying in Fitzroy earlier this afternoon to save the Cohealth community medical clinics. Thanks to everyone who made it along despite the rain! ✊ ☔ ❤️

Amazing. We love to see it! 🙌❤️

Okay grandpa, let's get you back to bed.

Tomorrow! Join us on Saturday 8th November, 2pm at 142 Johnson St, Fitzroy (Labor MP Sarah Witty's office), to rally against the closure of Cohealth Community Clinics. Read about the closures here: redflag.org.au/article/comm... Join the campaign here: victoriansocialists.org.au/form/campaig....

New episode out now! Listen or watch here: linktr.ee/partylinepod

When the class divide in housing becomes so extreme it turns into a form of literal apartheid...

Grotesque. We could solve world hunger for $40 billion a year. (And before anyone jumps in with the 'but, but, but, the value creation!' - Elon doesn't create sh*t he just gets high and posts all day. The people creating value are his workers.)

health workers and the community will occupy the cohealth clinics until Labor agrees to fund them. Labor is playing a dangerous game of chicken with the cohealth board. They're playing with the lives of 12,500 working class people. 1/2

Zohran Mamdani is a relatively moderate social democrat not a 'jihadist communist' as some on the right have labelled him. Nevertheless, his decisive victory shows there's an appetite for real change - even in the heartlands of capitalism like New York.

Zohran Mamdani aims merely to reduce somewhat the extreme inequality that blights US society today, particularly in places like New York. The right-wing hysteria about him shows how coddled the US ruling class has become in a system rigged to benefit them at every turn. 🧵

Labor's 5% deposit scheme contributed to price growth at the lower end of housing market of 14.4% (annualised) in October. This policy, predictably, is going to lock even more people out of the housing market while pushing others to take on excessive levels of debt.

Makes sense. Fascism is an ideology not of workers but of the frustrated upper and middle classes which in practice, historically, has primarily served the interests of big capital. Wherever the far right has come to power, working-class people (and particularly working-class women) have suffered.

A wonderful illustration by NT Socialists member Dani (enkidooby_doo on Insta), bringing to mind the classic Brecht poem, 'Questions from a worker who reads'. Look it up if you haven't come across it before. Essential reading for socialists! ✊

The only danger to parliamentarians from this guy visiting will be from all the truth bombs.

We love to see it. ❤️🙌

Tonight 6:30pm in Brunswick! Come along to the monthly meeting of the VS Socialist Workers' Caucus. Meet other socialist trade unionists in your industry, and help plan our upcoming activities and events as we seek to rebuild socialist politics as a force in the union movement.

Rallying against racism and fascism at the State Library now. ✊🖤♥️💛🇵🇸

Classic Labor move to squeeze Victoria's poorest people for an extra $40 million in revenue from fines while allowing Transurban and other toll road operators to take in hundreds of millions in profit annually from roads that should long ago have come back into public hands.

United Workers Union members at Padre coffee roasters are taking industrial action this Friday morning, 17th October. Get down and show your solidarity for these striking workers, taking a courageous and important stand. 8am, 423 Lygon Street Brunswick East.

Trump (just like Biden before him) is an accessory to the crime of genocide. He doesn't deserve congratulations, he deserves to be on trial in the Hague.

Marching down St Kilda road now for Palestine. Whatever happens from here, we won't stop fighting until we see real peace, justice and freedom for the Palestinians - not some US-Israeli backed dictatorship! ✊ 🇵🇸

Some pics from yesterday's 'politics in the pub' event in Dandenong on Labor's complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza, featuring Dandenong councillor and Palestine advocate Rhonda Garad and VS's Jack McMahon. Thanks to everyone who made it along!

Two million on the streets in Italy for yesterday's general strike for Palestine. Absolutely wonderful to see the power of the working class mobilised against Israel's genocide. An example for the rest of the world to follow! ✊ 🇵🇸 ❤️

Happening this Saturday 4th October, 2pm at Bojak Brewing in Dandenong. A special 'politics in the pub' event hosted by VS Dandenong discussing Labor's complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza. Featuring Dandenong councillor and outspoken Palestine supporter @rhondagarad.bsky.social.

Italy's two biggest unions have called a general strike for this Friday in response to Israel's interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza. An example unions here should be following! If you're a member of a union, email or call them and encourage them to take action.

Rally happening now at the State Library in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla that's under imminent threat from Israel as it approaches the Gaza coastline today. ✊🇵🇸

The Sumud Flotilla is approaching Gaza and reportedly about to be intercepted by the Israeli Navy. The safety of participants in the flotilla depends on global solidarity! VS encourages its members and supporters to attend the solidarity rally called for 6pm tonight at the State Library. ✊🇵🇸

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."