Fight for true democracy

The overwhelming majority of Australians have the impression that Australia is a democracy. We do elect a national talking shop (parliament) every three years, and this is what the ruling class puts across as the argument for the  'democratic foundations' of Australian society. I could use the valid argument that elections are rendered a choice between the two parties of capitalism (The Coalition and Labor) by the fact that they get blanket media coverage except for scare campaigns against even mildly radical bourgeois parties like the Greens. But there are even more sobering arguments than this! All of the important economic decisions in Australia are carried out by fat cats in board rooms, thinking only of their profit margins, with no responsibility to anyone but themselves. How is this democratic? Real democracy would entail workers and communities having a say in what is produced, how it is produced and when it is produced, it would include a constant say in how the resources that rightfully belong to the people of Australia are managed, it would include continued democratic involvement and a people's oriented media rather than the meaningless triennial vote and Murdoch Yankee imperialist propaganda.

Continue the fight taken up at Bakery Hill 146 years ago and fight for real democracy!

Eureka!

Eureka! I think it's more than appropriate that my first post pertains to the birth of the 'Australian Spirit' and the birth of the independence movement and anti-elitist and anti-imperialist sentiment in this country. The courageous struggle waged by the extremely unjustly treated miners, from all nations on earth that banded together under their flag in order to fight for their rights and liberties is the shining example by which those seeking an independent, socialist Australia need look to when in need of inspiration. The courageous actions of the men at Bakery Hill stand for everything we value, and seek to bring out to the maximum in our society, the values of multiculturalism, of rights and liberties for the all, not just the colonial elites, and anti- British imperialism. The imperialism in our society today may now be that of the US but the sentiment is exactly the same. It's time for Australian workers to heed the spirit of Eureka, and rise up once more to assert our independence from the scourge of Yankee imperialism.

"We swear by the Southern Cross to stand truly by each other and fight to defend our rights and liberties."