Australasian Socialists brings together socialist activists across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, building the political connections and collective capacity that can only come through regional solidarity and shared struggle.
We believe in democracy as a living principle — not limited to the parliamentary chamber but extending into every institution that shapes people's lives, including the economy itself.
Extreme inequality is not a side-effect of prosperity but a political choice. A socialist economy is one organised around human need and democratic ownership rather than private accumulation.
The working class has no country. We stand in solidarity with workers and oppressed peoples everywhere, recognising that our liberation is bound together across national borders.
The most significant improvements in working and living conditions have always come through organised collective action. We are committed to building that capacity across our region.
Australasian Socialists is grounded in the belief that socialist politics needs to operate at multiple scales — local, national, and regional. The shared histories, economic ties, and cultural connections between Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand make regional solidarity both natural and strategic.
We draw on the labour and socialist traditions of both countries — from the wharfies' strikes to the anti-apartheid campaigns, from Māori land rights movements to the campaigns for marriage equality. We see these struggles as part of a single, continuing project of human liberation.
Because the problems working people face — insecure work, unaffordable housing, inadequate healthcare, environmental destruction — are not accidents. They are systemic outcomes of an economic order organised around private profit rather than human flourishing.
Socialism means democratic control over the economy: social ownership of essential industries and services, workers' power in the workplace, and a radical redistribution of wealth and decision-making. It means taking seriously the possibility that ordinary people, organised and informed, can run their own affairs.
That possibility has been demonstrated again and again throughout history. Our task is to continue making it real.
"The workers of the world have no country to lose — and a world to win."