AAPI Heritage Month & MayDay Labour Rights
With Asian & Pacific Islander heritage month coming up, and coinciding with May 1st as International Workers’ Day, special mentions go out to AAPI of the working class, those organising on May Day, and those who have been a part of our many AAPI labour rights movements across the world.
Remember our interconnectedness, how collective action and organised class-conscious activists across multiple Asian countries and Asian diasporas across the world, pressured change and reform, and challenged the global north imperialist status quo. Remember our pivotal roles in transcontinental civil rights movements. We have that power. AAPI Americans, check out AAPI American socialists movements right now. 18millionrising quotes in the below linked video: “May 1st is International Workers' Day AND the start of APAH! Celebrate our history by participating in it: Join the national general strike and attend your local May Day mobilization this Friday. Asian American workers have always been influential in building strong labor movements. During a time of heightened authoritarianism and economic instability, we must continue building upon the working class victories that our elders fought so hard to achieve.” AAPI Australians, search up your socialists groups.
If you are a migrant or a labour union worker (in any sector), I encourage you to at least check them out and how they are for workers rights (and are arguable more pro-labour than even the Labour Party!)
Out of all other political parties, the socialist networks are entwined with refugee and migrant rights, their policies and attitudes are aligned with pro-migrant & pro-refugee rights and anti-racist, while correcting the labour class’ discontentment to be redirected towards the billionaires hoarding wealth, housing, resources, and their infiltrative influences upon Aussie politicians. Refugee and migrant rights organisations and supporters have many overlaps with the socialists, although I will say right now that there is recognition that the socialists could be more loudly anti-racist and anti-imperialist, and more perceptive of BIPOC workers struggles and how they should be centered in labour rights. This is something that BIPOC members of socialists networks are working on to bring to the table.
In my opinion, the Greens on more than one occasion, have been ineffective in labour rights, and failed to sufficiently humanise and proactively champion against anti-migrant and imperialist policies. This is a product of their complicity in imperialism, their weak-willed cowering in the face of the US and the West’s imperialist actions, all which they chose to display by rebuffing and blocking Iranian activists who were pushing for refugee and migrant rights for the peoples oppressed by the IRGC. Yet still claiming credit for refugee safety when the time came.
The Greens like all political parties have a duty to the equality of all peoples, which means being actively anti-racist and hiking up their vigor in combatting the rising anti-migrant racist shift in Australian politics. But as of now, they are too hesitant to challenge it, too performative to stand for anything that resists the Eurocolonial-imperialist system if it falls out of privileged public favor. Instead of having migrants & refugees’ best interests at heart, the current political system has migrant capital at heart.
The socialist networks advocate for breaking alliances and dependency on the US and its war machines and have a lot of potential to disrupt the imperialist hold that the Anglosphere has on the rest of the global south.
FIND YOUR STATE
Socialists
Socialist Alliance
NSW
NSW Socialists
Socialist Alternative Sydney
( If you’re in Sydney, follow Damien Nguyen, an activist for trans rights Pride in Protest , and labour rights especially of Asian migrant SW rights (Rising Red Lantern, Vixen Workers, Justice for Our Sisters, SWAC, Scarlet Alliance), pro-migrant rights fighting border forces, anti-war rights and more !! He is a crucial figure right now and we should back our Asian activists. )
QLD
Queensland Socialists
Socialists Alternative Brisbane
Socialist Alliance Brisbane
SA
South Australia Socialists
TAS
Tasmania Socialists
UTAS Socialists
Lutruwita Hobart Socialists Alliance
WA
West Australian Socialists
Socialist Alternative Perth
CBR
Canberra Socialists
Socialist Alternative Canberra
VIC
Victorian Socialists
VIC Socialist Alliance
Victoria Socialists in Schools
Victorian Socialists Thomastown
Victorian Socialists Essendon
Victorian Socialists Richmond
OTHERS
Socialists in hospitality and retail
Socialists in Healthcare
Socialists in Media, Arts & Entertainment
High School Anti-Capitalists
Campaign Against Racism & Fascism
