The Freedom Socialist Party is a feminist, working-class organization made up of people of many races, nationalities, genders, sexual orientations and ages. We are activists and educators fighting for an end to all capitalist exploitation and oppression. We work in labor unions, join in social-movement struggles, and take electoral positions and run candidates. In a period where everything seems to be going to hell in a handbasket, we agree with the advice offered by Eduardo Galeano, the Uruguayan socialist who wrote Open Veins of Latin America: “Save your pessimism for better times.” Party members are optimistic because we know that change is the one constant, and we believe in the power of working people to make revolutionary change that benefits the world’s majority.
We are a socialist party in Victoria that has come together to provide a left alternative to the established parties. We stand for a radical reorganisation of society. And the first element of that is redistribution of wealth and power. Australia is a first world nation. But the lords and monarchs of the middle ages would blush at the inequality of our society. Victorian Socialist candidates, if elected, will fight for a radical redistribution of wealth and power. Give us 100 days in parliament, and we will give you 100 ways we will fight to take power from the elite and return it to those who created the wealth in the first place. We don’t know if we can do it, but we know no one else will. So we are going to put our heart and soul into trying. If you agree it is worth trying, join Victorian Socialists today.