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....

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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

Mamdani's win reveals for all of us that it IS possible win office and not be a complete fucking weirdo. You don't have to support genocide, throw the environment, trans folk or First Nations people under a bus or publicly felate billionaires. Proud to be a member of the @vicsocialists.bsky.social

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."

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. ❤️✊ 🇵🇸