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Solidarity (Australia), the Glossary

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Solidarity is a Trotskyist organisation in Australia.^[1]

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International Socialist Tendency
Trotskyist organisations in Australia

Adelaide

Adelaide (Tarntanya) is the capital and most populous city of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym Adelaidean is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide.

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Anti-war movement

An anti-war movement (also antiwar) is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict.

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Arabs

The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Federal Police

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is the national and principal federal law enforcement agency of the Australian Government with the unique role of investigating crime and protecting the national security of the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Australian Government

The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government or the Federal Government, is the national executive government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

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Australian Greens

The Australian Greens (AG), commonly referred to simply as the Greens, are a confederation of green state and territory political parties in Australia.

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Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also known simply as Labor or the Labor Party, is the major centre-left political party in Australia and one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia.

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Austudy Five

The Austudy Five was the epithet given to a group of five activists arrested in 1992 at a National Union of Students (NUS) national demonstration in Melbourne, Australia.

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AUSTUDY Scheme

The AUSTUDY scheme was an Australian educational assistance scheme that provided financial assistance to eligible students aged 16 and over.

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Bob Gould (activist)

Robert Stephen "Bob" Gould (1937 – 22 May 2011) was an Australian activist and bookseller.

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Brisbane

Brisbane (Meanjin) is the capital of the state of Queensland and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million.

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Camp for Climate Action

The Camps for Climate Action are campaign gatherings (similar to peace camps) that take place to draw attention to, and act as a base for direct action against, major carbon emitters, as well as to develop ways to create a zero-carbon society.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Carbon tax

A carbon tax is a tax levied on the carbon emissions from producing goods and services.

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Carole Ferrier

Carole Ferrier is an Australian feminist academic.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Cindy Sheehan

Cindy Lee Sheehan (Miller; born July 10, 1957) is an American anti-war activist,Geraghty, Jim (2011-05-02).

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.

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The Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP) was an Australian socialist political group.

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Entryism

Entryism (also called entrism, enterism, infiltration, a French Turn, boring from within, or boring-from-within) is a political strategy in which an organization or state encourages its members or supporters to join another, usually larger, organization in an attempt to expand influence and expand their ideas and program.

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Homophobia

Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who identify or are perceived as being lesbian, gay or bisexual.

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Ian Rintoul

Ian Rintoul is an Australian political activist and Sydney resident, best known in Australia as a refugee advocate, and as spokesman for the Refugee Action Coalition Sydney (not to be confused with its Melbourne-based counterpart, the Refugee Action Collective (Victoria)).

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Identity politics

Identity politics is politics based on a particular identity, such as ethnicity, race, nationality, religion, denomination, gender, sexual orientation, social background, caste, and social class.

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Immigration detention

Immigration detention is the policy of holding individuals suspected of visa violations, illegal entry or unauthorized arrival, as well as those subject to deportation and removal until a decision is made by immigration authorities to grant a visa and release them into the community, or to repatriate them to their country of departure.

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Indigenous peoples

There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territory, and an experience of subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model.

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The International Socialist Tendency (IST) is an international grouping of unorthodox Trotskyist organisations espousing the ideas of Tony Cliff (1917–2000), founder of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in Britain (not to be confused with the unrelated Socialist Workers Party in the United States).

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Iraq War

The Iraq War, sometimes called the Second Persian Gulf War, or Second Gulf War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government.

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Islamophobia

Islamophobia is the irrational fear of, hostility towards, or prejudice against the religion of Islam or Muslims in general.

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Jeff Sparrow

Jeff Sparrow (born 1969) is an Australian left-wing writer, editor and socialist activist based in Melbourne, Victoria.

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Jobs with Justice

Jobs With Justice (JWJ) is a labor rights organization in the United States, focused on the vision that all workers should be able to collectively bargain.

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Joh Bjelke-Petersen

Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen (13 January 191123 April 2005) was a conservative Australian politician.

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Julia Gillard

Julia Eileen Gillard (born 29 September 1961) is an Australian former politician who served as the 27th prime minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013.

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Kelvin Thomson

Kelvin John Thomson (born 1 May 1955) is a former Australian politician.

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Leon Trotsky

Lev Davidovich Bronstein (– 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist.

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Marxism

Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.

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Melbourne

Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.

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Military Keynesianism

Military Keynesianism is an economic policy based on the position that government should raise military spending to boost economic growth.

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Muslims

Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.

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National Union of Students (Australia)

The National Union of Students (NUS) is the peak representative body for Australian higher education students.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state.

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Northern Territory National Emergency Response

The Northern Territory National Emergency Response, also known as "The Intervention" or the Northern Territory Intervention, and sometimes the abbreviation "NTER" (for Northern Territory Emergency Response) was a package of measures enforced by legislation affecting Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia, which lasted from 2007 until 2012.

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Open border

An open border is a border that enables free movement of people (and often of goods) between jurisdictions with no restrictions on movement and is lacking substantive border control.

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Orthodox Trotskyism

Orthodox Trotskyism is a branch of Trotskyism which aims to adhere more closely to the philosophy, methods and positions of Leon Trotsky and the early Fourth International, Vladimir Lenin and Karl Marx than other avowed Trotskyists.

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Paul Keating

Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944) is an Australian former politician who served as the 24th prime minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996, holding office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP).

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Pauline Hanson

Pauline Lee Hanson (née Seccombe, formerly Zagorski; born 27 May 1954) is an Australian politician who is the founder and leader of One Nation, a right-wing populist political party.

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Pauline Hanson's One Nation

Pauline Hanson's One Nation (PHON or ONP), also known as One Nation or One Nation Party, is a right-wing populist political party in Australia.

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Permanent revolution

Permanent revolution is the strategy of a revolutionary class pursuing its own interests independently and without compromise or alliance with opposing sections of society.

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Perth

Perth (Boorloo) is the capital city of Western Australia.

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Racism

Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity.

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S11 (protest)

S11 refers to a series of protests against meetings of the World Economic Forum on 11, 12 and 13 September 2000 in Melbourne, Australia, where approximately 10,000 people of many ages and a wide cross section of the community were involved.

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Self-determination

Self-determination refers to a people's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage.

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Sexism

Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on one's sex or gender.

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Social justice is justice in relation to the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society where individuals' rights are recognized and protected.

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A social movement is a loosely organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a social or political one.

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Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

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Socialism in Australia dates back at least as far as the late-19th century.

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Socialist Alliance is a socialist political party and activist organisation in Australia, founded in 2001 as an alliance of various socialist organisations and activists, initiated by the Democratic Socialist Perspective and the International Socialist Organisation.

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Socialist Alternative (SA or SAlt) is a Trotskyist organisation in Australia. Solidarity (Australia) and Socialist Alternative (Australia) are international Socialist Tendency and Trotskyist organisations in Australia.

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Socialist Worker is the name of several newspapers currently or formerly associated with the International Socialist Tendency (IST).

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The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a far-left political party in the United Kingdom. Solidarity (Australia) and Socialist Workers Party (UK) are international Socialist Tendency.

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Solidarity (Australia)

Solidarity is a Trotskyist organisation in Australia. Solidarity (Australia) and Solidarity (Australia) are 2008 establishments in Australia, international Socialist Tendency, organizations established in 2008 and Trotskyist organisations in Australia.

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State capitalism

State capitalism is an economic system in which the state undertakes business and commercial (i.e., for-profit) economic activity and where the means of production are nationalized as state-owned enterprises (including the processes of capital accumulation, centralized management and wage labor).

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Sydney

Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.

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Tom O'Lincoln

Tom O'Lincoln (27 August 1947 − 12 October 2023) was an American-Australian Marxist historian, author and one of the founders of the International Socialist Tendency in Australia. Solidarity (Australia) and Tom O'Lincoln are international Socialist Tendency.

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Tony Cliff

Tony Cliff (born Yigael Glückstein, יגאל גליקשטיין; 20 May 1917 – 9 April 2000) was a Trotskyist activist. Solidarity (Australia) and Tony Cliff are international Socialist Tendency.

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Torres Strait Islanders

Torres Strait Islanders are the Indigenous Melanesian people of the Torres Strait Islands, which are part of the state of Queensland, Australia.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_(Australia)

Also known as International Socialist Organisation, International Socialist Organisation (Australia), International Socialists (Australia).

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Solidarity (Australia), the Glossary

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Trotskyist organisations in Australia

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