Sunday, May 1, 2011

The Criminality of the Socialist Alternative?

Socialist Alternative...
"Incitement to Hatred and Violence."

CHARGE. The Socialist Alternative Web site/organization is in breach of the

80.2A Urging violence against groups
Offences
(1) A person (the first person ) commits an offence if:
(a) the first person intentionally urges another person, or a group, to use force or violence against a group (the targeted group ); and
(b) the first person does so intending that force or violence will occur; and
(c) the targeted group is distinguished by race, religion, nationality, national or ethnic origin or political opinion; and
(d) the use of the force or violence would threaten the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth.
EVIDENCE.
On the Socialist Alternative Web Site, the following is found:

1/ There is no parliamentary road to socialism. Bitter experience has shown that mere tinkering with our society will not end oppression or exploitation. The attempts of parties like the ALP and the Greens in Australia to reform capitalism have always ended in disappointment.

2/ The capitalist class controls the state, i.e. the army, the courts, the police and the parliament. The capitalist state resists attempts to reform the system and meets challenges to its power with violence. For workers and the oppressed to liberate themselves, revolution is necessary to overthrow this rotten system and to create a new one.
3/ A successful revolution will involve workers taking control of their workplaces, dismantling existing state institutions (parliaments, courts, the armed forces and police) and replacing them with an entirely new state based on genuinely democratic control by the working class. Such a revolution will not be achieved by a coup or the heroic efforts of a minority. We are not anarchists, who argue against all states –  even one democratically controlled by the working class. Nor do we support terrorism, guerillaism, or any variant of so called "revolutionary" politics that conceives social change as coming through the actions of anything other than the conscious self-activity of the mass of workers. 

4/ Only a socialist revolution can bring about the genuine liberation of the oppressed.

5/ This is why building an organisation around clear, revolutionary Marxist politics is so vital today.

COMMUNIST MANIFESTO: (Marxist Politics)
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Proletarians of all countries, unite!

DISCUSSION.
In spite of their apparent disclaimer in section 3, this is clearly contradicted in 4, and 5 where Marxist Revolutionary Politics is invoked. As the mnifesto also clearly states, such a revolution will only be by force.

Clearly the SA is in breach of the crimes act.  The ADL calls on the Australian Federal Police to act now to halt this diabolical organization from freely pursuing it's criminal (in our view) activities.

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