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"Resistance is an Australia-wide organisation of young people. We aim to build a mass radical youth organisation. We organise young people in struggles against sexism, racism, environmental destruction, attacks on workers' rights, attacks on students' rights, and every aspect of capitalist oppression. Through this process we help build a mass democratic socialist party that can unite all these struggles. Resistance is made up of young workers, unemployed, students, women, and young people involved in a huge range of campaigns and activities. We're involved in the environmental movement, the women's movement, the lesbian and gay movement, anti-racist campaigns, solidarity campaigns with struggles overseas, on campus, at schools, and in workplace and trade union campaigns. We organise our own campaigns on issues from sexuality to youth unemployment. And we distribute information on all the issues. Any young person (under 26) can join us. It's easy. Every week we organise meetings to plan our activities and organise our campaigns. We act with the enthusiasm of knowing that we're not submitting to the system, but we are learning and working together with other young people to change it. If you want to act and speak out against the system, join Resistance."
www.greenleft.org.au www.resistance.org.au
You can find the Newcastle members often selling Green Left Weekly at the University, or down Beaumont Street on Saturdays. Feel free to come and talk to us, grab a copy of Green Left (a brilliant newspaper by the way). Or debate, we are open to discussion and don't forget, you may not agree with all our views, but together we can all work on a brilliant future.

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My Blog

Socialist Alliance; Policy for Council Elections

For a climate action council in NewcastleZane Alcorn for MayorSocialist Alliance Team for Zane, Laura and Tom for Ward 3* The latest research shows that Arctic sea ice could disappear by 2013. Within ...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:11:00 GMT

What Resistance Stands For 11; The Cuban Example.

The Example of CubaHow a new socialist government will work will depend on the conditions in which it comes to power, so we can't say exactly how it will be organised. But examples provided by the Cub...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:05:00 GMT

What Resistance Stands For 10; Democratic Socialism and what this means.

Workers' and Community Control of the EconomyBy socialism we mean a society in which individuals will enjoy not only the abstract right to determine the course of their own lives, but also the economi...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:04:00 GMT

What Resistance Stands For 9; Revolutionary Movements.

Movements Against InjusticeNineteenth century US President Abraham Lincoln once famously said, "You can fool all the people some of the time and you can fool some of the people all of the time, but yo...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:02:00 GMT

What Resistance Stands For 8; Fighting Media and Sexism

The System of Thought ManipulationThe most important guarantee of capitalism is the whole structure of thought control. Capitalism trains people not to think. The education system teaches you to obey ...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT

What Resistance Stands For 7; Democracy and Capitalism

How Democratic is Capitalism?Everything we use, everything we eat or wear, our car, our housing  we don't produce these things as individuals. We produce socially. There is a social division of work ...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:57:00 GMT

What Resistance Stands For 6; Fighting Racism and Alienation.

Why Capitalism Needs RacismThe social pyramid of capitalism is black at the base and white at the top. In South Africa, until apartheid was formally abolished in 1994, it was legally instituted that w...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:55:00 GMT

What Resistance Stands For 5; The Envrionment

Capitalism is Killing the EarthCapitalism is also destroying the natural environment. With oil, coal, gas, and forest clearing, we burn each year what nature took a million years to create. This relea...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:12:00 GMT

What Resistance Stands For 3; War - Capitalism With The Gloves Off, and the Buisness of War.

War: Capitalism With the Gloves OffFollowing the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, almost before the World Trade Center's towers had finished collapsing, the US elite were plotting how to take ad...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:09:00 GMT

What Resistance Stands For 3; Unemployment and an Irrational System.

Unemployment.Large numbers of people are poor because they can't find work. Large numbers more are underemployed. But why? There's certainly plenty of work that needs to be done. There are houses, sch...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:06:00 GMT