Written for an assignment.

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Gabriela Caeli Sumampow

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Australia should organize its politics differently and use socialist sets of politics, according to the RMIT Socialist Alternative Club.

 

Delivering a public speech yesterday at the RMIT City Campus, Socialist Alternative activist Natalie Acreman said current capitalism was racist towards migrants and the indigenous.

 

“The far right did not disappear when challenged,” she said.

 

The RMIT Socialist Alternative Club aims to defeat the far right by organizing a society without racism.

 

The club plans to achieve this by building social movements such as rallies and solidarity events to challenge racism in society.

 

RMIT Socialist Alternative Club President Liam Parry said Australian capitalists and politicians had been attacking living conditions of a majority of the population for decades.

 

“The inability to offer anybody anything except for racism and division has been the main contribution of the Australian political class in the context of the rise of the far right,” he said.

 

“We can’t click our fingers and make racism go away in society,” he said.

 

A "real political alternative that can challenge Racist/Islamophobic ideas in broader society” is “the only thing” that can stop racism, according to Parry.

 

He said students were in an “interesting position of society” and they had "less restrictions on political organizing”.

 

He said students could participate in social struggles and political movements more easily, and they should make use of that freedom.

 

According to RMIT Liberal Club President Kris Lowry, socialists are radical.

 

“I believe in free speech. Socialists should be allowed to say what they like, but in turn I hope they allow us to say what we like and exercise our free speech,” he said

 

Lowry said the RMIT Liberal Club would "continue to exercise our free speech and engage politically”.