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Maritime Union of Australia officials were as conspicuously absent from the speaker list on Saturday as the Contship Dax was from Port Botany.
“Mobilising the international working class is the only way that we can get out of this situation and prevent future wars. The only solution is socialism.”
The strong proactive response to the meeting reflects the sharp changes in mass consciousness internationally, driven by deep-seated anti-war sentiment and mass hostility to the establishment governments, parties and the corporate media.
While professing hostility to the genocide in Gaza, MUA officials reacted with fury to a Socialist Equality Party member asking if they would take any action to stop it.
The club won enthusiastic support from students for its condemnation of Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians and the complicity of Australian, US and world governments.