Oppose militarism and war: Solidarity with Palestine

The rising tensions between the US and China have grown militarism and war. Donald Trump’s America has pursued a policy of naked “might makes right” imperialist violence, discarding what US Official Stephen Miller called “international niceties”. Over the past two years alone the US has attacked Venezuela, Iran and provided crucial support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza and aggression in Lebanon and Syria. Yet our leaders are only deepening our long standing alliance with the most powerful and murderous nation the world has ever seen.

South Australia lies at the centre of this project through the construction of nuclear-powered attack submarines at Port Adelaide and expanded investment in weapons manufacturing across the state. South Australia also currently hosts a number of companies directly involved in supply chains that have helped arm Israel’s genocide in Gaza such as BAE Systems and Rosebank Engineering. Successive Labor and Liberal governments have positioned South Australia as the nation’s ‘defence state’, boasting billions of dollars in military investment while housing, healthcare, education, and climate transition programs remain chronically underfunded.

What we think

1. Socialists oppose Australian involvement in great power rivalries or imperialist conflicts
2. Australia should withdraw from all alliances with major imperialist powers and instead pursue a policy of non-alignment
3. SA Socialists oppose Australian support for Israel on the grounds that it is an apartheid state; we stand in solidarity with the Palestinians
4. Nuclear weapons and nuclear energy programs have no place in a peaceful society

We’ll fight to

1. Scrap all state support and funding for the AUKUS Nuclear Submarine program
2. End South Australia’s support for the genocide in Palestine
3. End all state subsidies to companies involved in the arms industry or complicit in the genocide in Palestine
4. Cut all ties between Schools, Tafe’s, Universities and weapons corporations, the military and the AUKUS Nuclear Submarine Program
5. Redirect all state and federal funding towards the war industry in SA towards healthcare, housing, public transport and other socially useful industries
6. Provide state support to Palestinian and other refugees for access to high quality housing, healthcare, cost of living pressures and citizenship support services
7. End all involvement from Renewal SA in projects to support the arms industry
8. Retool existing state funded “defence” facilities for socially useful civilian industries such as the planned $30 billion AUKUS construction yard
9. Ban all weapons corporations from SA’s “innovation hubs” such as Lot Fourteen and Technology Park, including the BAE Systems national HQ currently under construction
10. Reverse the designation of the Osborne precinct as a “nuclear zone” and keep SA nuclear free
11. End uranium mining and exports