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!
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