Resistance is an Australia-wide revolutionary socialist organisation of young people. We were formed in Sydney in 1967 by radical students who were involved in the movement against the Vietnam War and who saw the need to organise collectively against the injustices of capitalism.
Using racism, nationalism, sexism and homophobia, the capitalist ruling class aims to divide us. Resistance is about uniting people in mass action against our common enemy: this system, which puts corporate profit before people's lives and the environment.
Resistance fights for a democratic and ecologically sustainable socialist society. Under socialism, the means of producing wealth will be owned and controlled by the majority. The economy will be run democratically, according to the needs of people as they decide them, not corporations' profit margins.
Resistance is made up of workers, unemployed people, students and other young people involved in a variety of progressive campaigns. We're active on campus, in schools and in workplaces. We organise campaigns around issues like workers' rights, queer rights and opposition to imperialist wars. We get out information on progressive issues through Green Left Weekly, Australia's leading radical newspaper, which we help to produce and distribute.
Any young person can join us — it's easy! We act with the enthusiasm of knowing we're not submitting to the system, but working together with other people to change it. Reject the assumption that a super-rich minority is more fit to govern our lives than we are. Don't accept a system that tries to insist that the future of the planet should be sacrificed for the sake of the market.
If you want to speak out against the system and start building a world that makes some sense, you should join Resistance!
From Green Left Weekly, April 26, 2006.
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