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The Socialist Equality Group’s meeting, held to launch the book <em>Pike River: The Crime and Cover-up</em>, was addressed by author Tom Peters, Bernie Monk, whose son died in the mine disaster, Australian WSWS writer Terry Cook, and Malcolm Bray, a former mineworker from the UK.

While the NTEU’s political ban was directed against a Socialist Equality Party member, who was on strike himself, it set a precedent for use against any striking academic or staff member who opposes the union’s sellouts.

The censorship was aimed at preventing any exposure of the National Tertiary Education Union’s role in enforcing sweeping attacks on the jobs and conditions of academics and university staff.

The Socialist Equality Party is standing Senate teams in three states in order to present a genuine socialist alternative to the broadest possible audience, and prepare for the convulsive working-class struggles ahead.

“I used to vote for major parties, but what you put forward is a good program.”

The discussion, which lasted over an hour, covered many topics, including the threat of war, the disastrous consequences the official “let it rip” pandemic policies and the burning need to build a socialist movement of the working class.

Enthusiastic participants at Sunday’s meeting peppered SEP candidates with a broad range of questions about the party’s anti-war and revolutionary socialist program.

“I support what the SEP says. Workers need to organise to fight for what we need, and to unite internationally.” - Elizabeth, NSW Central Coast

The transformation of the SS4C movement into an election campaign for parties responsible for the climate crisis is the culmination of years of attempts by the organisers to divert the masses of young people behind the political establishment.

“I’m anti-war because I came from a country of war, Vietnam, which was invaded even before the Americans.” – Thao, a Western Sydney University student.