We are socialists because we believe the society we have is not the only society possible — and because we think the path to a better one runs through organised working-class politics, democratic institutions, and genuine solidarity.
Socialism begins with a simple observation: the society we live in is organised around private profit rather than human need. The economy is not a natural fact but a set of political arrangements — and political arrangements can be changed.
We want those arrangements changed in a particular direction: towards democratic ownership of the resources and industries that everyone depends upon, towards a fairer distribution of wealth and work, and towards a set of institutions that genuinely serve the people who live within them.
"The political question is not whether things can change, but who changes them and in whose interest."
We believe in democracy — not as a formality observed at election time, but as a living principle that should govern how our economy, our workplaces, and our communities are organised.
This means workers having a genuine say in the conditions of their work. It means local communities having real power over decisions that affect their neighbourhoods. It means public institutions that are genuinely accountable to the people they serve, rather than to those who fund political parties or sit on their boards.
Adelaide has a proud history of working-class organisation — from the maritime unions to the metalworkers, from the anti-Vietnam movement to the campaigns against privatisation. We see ourselves as part of that continuing story.
We believe change comes from below: from workers organised in their unions, from communities standing up for themselves, from political formations that are accountable to their members rather than their donors. That is the tradition we work within and seek to extend.
Solidarity is not sentiment. It is the recognition that the conditions facing working people in Adelaide are connected to the conditions facing workers in Sydney, in Auckland, in Lagos, in Manila. Division along lines of nationality, ethnicity, or gender serves those who benefit from keeping working people apart.
We are internationalists because we believe the project of human liberation is necessarily a global one. The structures that produce inequality and exploitation are global, and so must be the response.
Extending democratic participation into every domain of life — especially the economy.
Not as charity but as the natural consequence of democratic ownership and fair distribution.
Building bonds of mutual support and collective resistance across every division.
Working people, organised together, are the only reliable agent of lasting change.