This place has always been a multicultural, both before and after colonisation. Furthermore, modern Australia was built on the backs of Indigenous and migrant workers. The best traditions of anti-racist working class solidarity are what we need to build on create a better society for all.
The prospect of large numbers of working people who are dissatisfied with Labor and the Liberal-National Coalition, and crushed by the cost-of-living squeeze and the housing affordability crisis, jumping from the frying pan into the fire by voting One Nation is the stuff of dreams for the billionaires as they sense the opportunity to decisively shift politics to the right.
But if Hanson’s rise is a product of demoralisation, division and a decline in social struggle, the opposite is also true. Each and every form of collective struggle by working people to create a better future is a death blow to her party. How do we rebuild the traditions of solidarity and collective action that will deprive One Nation and the other racists of oxygen?
Join a discussion with:
Aunty Lyn Toomey, Noongar activist
Colton Onderwater, Communist Party of Australia
Gino Lopez, Migrante (Filipino workers rights organisation)
Sam Wainwright, Socialist Alliance
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