This Saturday 8th August at 11am we'll be holding training sessions for Victorian Socialists volunteers in Brunswick and Footscray. The training will be followed by local doorknocks where you can be paired up with an experienced campaigner to learn the ropes.

Join us on Saturday 5th September from 7pm at The Thornbury Theatre for an evening of musical anti-fascism headlined by Montaigne, with support from locals Lily Morris, Bec Sykes, TNS, and The Iron Bark Brothers. Link to tickets below.

Nice little segment on ABC News from our state election campaign launch this evening. Thanks to the 770 or so people who made it along! It was wonderful to see so many news faces keen to take a socialist message to people across Victoria between now and November. ❤️

Kicking off our 2026 state election campaign launch in Thornbury now with 700+ in attendance! ✊ ❤️

Thanks to Cranbourne Star News for reporting on our Cranbourne candidate Reem Yunis's plan to tackle the cost-of-living crisis. Among other VS policies she outlined was our proposal to establish a network of publicly-owned and run supermarkets.

"A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

Some decent media coverage of the Victorian Socialists teachers who've helped lead the rank-and-file revolt in the AEU and who will be standing as candidates in the upcoming election - challenging a swathe of sitting Labor MPs including Minister for Education and leadership contender Ben Carroll.

Rebel teachers - members of Victorian Socialists - mounting a challenge to Labor Minister for Education Ben Carroll and other sitting MPs in this November's state election. We love to see it! ❤️ 🙌

This afternoon Victorian Socialists members in Melbourne's north attended a small but lively anti-racist speak out at Broadmeadows Town Hall. Wherever the toxic far-right politics of racism and division raises its head we need to organise the community to push it back!

This teacher is Victorian Socialists candidate for Niddrie Brendan Laws. Brendan is among a group of more than ten public school teachers and educational support staff who will be running in this November's state election as candidates with VS.

The view from the steps of Parliament House in Melbourne this morning. A sea of red as striking Victorian public school teachers and educational support staff send a powerful message to the Victorian Labor government. These legends deserve a better offer than what's been on the table so far! ✊

A sea of striking Victorian school teachers and educational support staff assembled now in the CBD. When working-class people stand together, stand up and fight for a better deal we're a force that's impossible to ignore! Still time to join in on the march to parliament. ✊ ❤️ PHOTOS: Nicky Minus

Absolutely huge crowd of striking public school teachers and educational support staff gathered now around the corner of Bourke & Swanston Sts in Melbourne's CBD. About to begin march to Parliament House! ✊ ❤️

Solidarity with Victorian public schools teachers and education support staff who are striking today. These workers - stretched to breaking point and having suffered a significant real wage cut under their 2022 EBA - deserve a deal with real improvement in both wages and conditions!

AEU members have rejected Labor’s shitty deal for a second time and will strike on Thursday. An absolutely heroic effort in the face of such contempt for these workers, I’ll see you all on Thursday!

Our 2026 state election manifesto is at the printers now. The first chance you'll have to grab a copy is at our campaign launch, taking place on Saturday 1st August from 4pm at the Aboriginal Advancement League in Thornbury. Tickets are selling fast - get yours today via the link below.

Congratulations to SBS on their top notch, and completely free, World Cup coverage. A reminder of the value of public, free-to-air sports broadcasting which is gradually being pushed out by the increasing domination of expensive streaming services like Kayo.

Kicking off the founding conference of the Australian Socialist Party with a discussion of the proposed party constitution. The conference is being held in-person in each state and territory with these gatherings linked up via Zoom and the online platform OpenSlides.

It was such a treat to be able to speak to Yas straight after her appearance at the royal commission yesterday - definitely recommend listening to or hearing watching this episode: linktr.ee/partylinepod

A message from our Northern Metro campaign coordinator Nick about our 2026 state election launch - coming up on Saturday 1st August from 4pm at the Aboriginal Advancement League in Thornbury.

Thanks to all the VS volunteers who were out and about over the weekend, as we continue to ramp up towards the offical launch of our state election campaign on Saturday 1st August, 4pm at the Aboriginal Advancement League in Thornbury.

The Age is reporting that the Victorian government is planning to ditch the Group Voting Ticket system for the upcoming state election. If true, this is an excellent development - ensuring voters, not parties, will control what happens to their preferences in the upper house.

The Victorian state election will be held on Saturday 28th November. Victorian Socialists are running candidates across the state. Today, we're proud to introduce our candidate for Sydenham, Shania Khan.

It was a big night last night with VS branch meetings taking place in Richmond, Melbourne, Brunswick, Northcote and Preston. 150+ people in attendance despite the freezing weather, some great discussions and lots of new faces (including 14 who joined on the night).

Via VS Thomastown: "Snaps from our biggest branch meeting yet! We discussed the outlook for the state election and the next steps for our local campaign. We will be holding multiple events in the coming weeks and need your help to cover as much ground as possible so we hope to see you there!"

Classic 'working-class battler' constituencies getting behind One Nation in the run up to the state election: property developers who don't like paying more tax to withhold vacant land from the market and business owners who think Australia's IR laws are somehow not anti-worker enough.

Thanks to everyone who made it along yesterday as the VS Essendon, Melbourne and Richmond district branches came together in Flemington to discuss and organise around socialist solutions to the housing crisis!

Shout out to John Faine for being the first mainstream media commentator to notice how supercharged we are coming into this November's state election. Factually though we're so supercharged we'll be challenging the Greens and Labor in the outer suburbs and regional areas too.

The Victorian state election will be held on Saturday 28th November. Victorian Socialists are running candidates across the state. Today, we're proud to introduce our candidate for Niddrie, Brendan Laws.

Join us for a public forum on the housing crisis this Saturday 4th July, 3pm at Djerring Flemington Hub, Community Hall C. Featuring VS candidates Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers.bsky.social - Melbourne), Chris Dite (Richmond) and Michal Kedem (Essendon). Tickets $5/$10 via link below.