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One young person said: “The working class are paying and giving money to the government and the government is giving it to the richer people so the richer people are going to get richer, and the people who are working have to work harder, longer, just to support that.”

SEP candidates Oscar Grenfell and Max Boddy, along with other party members, spoke to people in working-class Liverpool about the need for a socialist alternative to the program of war and austerity put forward by all other parties in the election.

“I think students should do whatever they can to fight against war.”

Tanya Plibersek, one of the most senior representatives of the federal government, responded with anger and censorship to an exposure of the reactionary character of the Voice and a call for a unified socialist movement of the working class.

Amid the greatest danger of a catastrophic world war in decades, the SEP is the only party in the NSW state election sounding the alarm and advancing a socialist alternative to militarism.

The SEP is running in the NSW election to help build a revolutionary party of the working class, directed against capitalism, which offers nothing but social misery and an expanding series of existential crises that threaten the very future of humanity.

The Socialist Equality Party is standing three candidates in the March 25 New South Wales state elections: Max Boddy in the Legislative Assembly in the Bankstown electorate and Oscar Grenfell and Mike Head in the Legislative Council.

The Congress adopted four resolutions on key aspects of the political situation and elected the Socialist Equality Party’s leadership for the next two years.

The livestreamed event provided a much-appreciated forum for democratic discussion about the election result, Labor’s right-wing program, and the class battles now unfolding in Australia and internationally.

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