Our Policy Platform

Labor, like the Coalition before them, has governed in the interests of the big business and the billionaire class. They’ve stood by while a cost of living crisis driven by corporate profiteering has trashed workers’ living standards. And they’ve done nothing to address the multiple, deepening crises of capitalist society that are putting our collective future at risk.

Things could, and should, be very different. Victorian Socialists stand for a society in which working-class people have a direct say in the big economic and political decisions that shape our lives—one where everyone, no matter what their circumstances, has a chance to live a decent life. The capitalists and their political servants say it’s not possible. We’re told society can’t afford things like secure housing for all, well funded public education and healthcare, or serious action on the climate and environmental crisis. It’s a lie.

Australia is among the wealthiest countries on Earth, and there’s more than enough money to build the kind of society we want to see. The problem is that under the current system an ever greater portion of our wealth and resources are being concentrated in the hands of the richest few. And instead of using it to the benefit of society, they’re focused on further enriching themselves at the cost of everyone else.

Victorian Socialist representatives in parliament will fight to change that, and to win the kind of society working-class people need and deserve.