The Democratic Socialists are fighting for a socialist society where the basic means of production on which we depend the factories and workplaces, the mines, the banks, etc would be owned and controlled by society, not a handful of capitalist billionaires. The economy would be run according to a democratically-decided plan which would give priority to people's needs for education and healthcare, for decent housing and a quality of urban infrastructure, for protection of the environment, and so on. Capitalist ideologues argue that socialism has failed. However, the system that collapsed in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was a bureaucratic, Stalinist distortion of socialism. What is needed is a genuine, democratic socialist system.
Capitalism is a dead end for humanity.
The current attacks on the welfare state in Australia are only a beginning. It will get much worse. In the Third World the situation is already truly horrible. The Democratic Socialists are working to build an independent, mass workers party which will be needed if we are going to win the struggle for a decent society. Join us in this fight.