What does it mean?
- We need to unite all who can be united and boot out the multinationals and appropriate the wealth of the local billionaire monopoly capitalist class.
- The working class seeks to unite all those who seek a better and more equitable Australia. A united front of classes and their representatives, political parties and organisations to repel primarily US Imperialism, their imperialist allies and their local collaborating class.
- Nationhood, independence, sovereignty and sustainable development of Australia for the people is stunted and deformed. We must free ourselves from foreign domination and interference.
So what do we mean by ‘Democratic’ in the struggle for a People’s United Democratic Anti Imperialist Republic?
Democracy in Australia too, is stunted and deformed. The parliament we inherited from the British imperialists is used as a fig leaf, a facade to cover up the real rule of the US imperialists and the local monopoly class.
People have gained deep experience over an extended period of time of the parliamentary shenanigans that do not satisfactorily solve their fundamental problems. More and more parliament is seen as irrelevant or needlessly meddling in people’s daily lives or attacking the wages and conditions of workers and their organisations, and kowtowing to the US and local monopolies.
Respect for parliament and many politicians are at an all-time low. People take matters into their own hands and fight in existing mass organisations (like trade unions, people’s defence and action groups) or form new mass organisations and wage deep struggles for a myriad of economic, political and cultural issues.
This is real democracy in action and is more substantial than voting once every three or four years, although this elementary principle was extracted from the British imperialists and local collaborators through hard struggle by the people, primarily the working class and its allies.
Genuine democracy involves deep consultation, deep involvement by the people in issues and decisions that affect their daily lives.
The way ahead involves the defence of existing people’s organisations and the creation of more mass organisations, and a path to a genuine national assembly that truly represents the Australian Peoples’ interests, with the power and state organs that enforce their rule after the domination of the US and their local cronies is ended.
Provisional Progamme: Defend and Extend Nationhood, Sovereignty, and Independence
A Peoples United Democratic, Anti-Imperialist Revolution will involve:
- Real thorough-going democracy and freedom for all Australians, indigenous and non-indigenous. Complete representation of First Nations Peoples, and a constitutional treaty to legitimise full rights, history, truth and compensation.
- Real democratic change with the empowerment of people’s mass organisations and a National Assembly to be proud of.
- Imperialists will be booted out and their local collaborators’ and sycophants’ domination will be ended.
- Peoples ownership of the means of communication.
- Peoples ownership of the big banks.
- Peoples ownership of key industries and the expropriation of the means of production and distribution of the multinationals and their local collaborators.
- Expropriation and redistribution of the land of the foreign monopolies and their collaborators.
- The strict supervision of the sustainable production and distribution of Australia’s natural resources.
- A People’s-led plan and action to tackle climate change and clean up the mess left by the multinationals and their local collaborators
- Adequate living standards for the Australian people with a people’s health and education system of standout quality and excellence.
- The Australian Peoples United Democratic Anti-Imperialist Republic will take its place in the world community of formerly oppressed people who have either realised liberation, independence and socialism or are in the process of doing so. The present Australian struggle against imperialism is part of a world-wide struggle.
- Australians will have stood up and will be masters of their own destiny building a bright, sustainable future with the great wealth Australia offers and be good international citizens to help all humanity to likewise create a better world.
