A working-class Party built for the long Haul
We draw on a long tradition of struggle in this country, and we apply those lessons to the conditions working people face today.
About Us
Who we are
Rooted in struggle. Organised for the future.
The Republican Workers' Party is a working-class organisation committed to building collective power, in workplaces, neighbourhoods, and communities across Australia. We inherit the struggle of those who fought for justice before us in this country and learn every day from both their achievements and their shortcomings.
From Vinegar Hill to the Eureka Stockade, from Port Kembla to Wave Hill, from the Kalkadoon to the Noongar, the people on this land have continually fought not for symbolic change to an oppressive and exploitative system, but for a system built on equality, participation, and genuine representation.
We stand in that tradition. We are not interested in patching up a broken system. We are building the power to replace it.
Replacing a monarch, changing a constitution, or instituting a treaty alone will not deliver the fair and democratic country people have sought throughout Australia's history. Without addressing the structural inequalities built into the current system, surface-level change leaves the same failed systems in place. Our republicanism is grounded in the redistribution of real power, economic and political, to the people who keep this country running.