Socialist Alliance (Australia)

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The Socialist Alliance was founded in 2001 as an alliance of socialist organisations in Australia, initiated by the Democratic Socialist Party and the International Socialist Organisation and founded along with 6 other socialist groups. The alliance grew to a point where most of its members were not members of any of the affiliate organisations, and successive national conferences moved to take the Alliance in the direction of becoming a united socialist party, following the model of the Scottish Socialist Party (which also started off as an alliance) rather than as a broad electoral front like the English Socialist Alliance or the Anti-Capitalist Alliance in New Zealand. However, to a large extent this new direction has not been carried out in practice.

The Socialist Alliance publishes a quarterly journal, Seeing Red, and supports the newspaper Green Left Weekly, which runs a regular Socialist Alliance column called Our Common Cause.

1 Election results
2 Affiliate organisations
3 Former affiliates
4 External links

[edit] Election results

The Alliance was formed to contest the 2001 federal election, however candidates were listed as independents on the ballot as its application for electoral registration was cut off when the election was called early. It has also run candidates at several state and council elections as well as the 2004 federal election, but has yet to poll a significant number of votes. At the 2004 federal election it received 0.11% of the primary vote (13,305 votes).