STATEMENT FOR GENERAL DISTRIBUTION & MEDIA
Hamish Chitts from the Revolutionary Socialist Party
Announces Campaign Against Kevin Rudd in the seat of Griffith

The Revolutionary Socialist Party will be running Hamish Chitts against Kevin Rudd in the seat of Griffith for the next federal elections.

Many young and working people in this country are fed up with Labor and Liberal, and the parliamentary system that guarantees the privileges of the corporate rich and perpetuates social inequality and discrimination.

No War! No Racism!
The Revolutionary Socialist Party believe that we need to bring working people of all colours together in solidarity and unite against social injustice and prejudice. The RSP advocates:

* Opposition to all attempts by governments and the corporate media to blame refugees and migrants for growing economic and social problems. Problems such as unemployment and rising housing and living costs are caused by corporations and government policies that put company profits before all else, not by new arrivals.

* Calls for Australia to open its borders and build bridges not gates between the people of all nations. We have a responsibility to help the poor nations of the world, especially so when Australia participates in wars that devastate these nations.

* Opposition to the federal government's attacks on Aboriginal communities and their land rights, which seek to guarantee mining company profits above the welfare and democratic rights of the indigenous people of Australia.

* An end to the racist wars of occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan. No to the extension of the US led imperialist wars in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. An end to the US-Australia war alliance.

For a public-owned, democratic & ecologically sustainable economy
The Revolutionary Socialist Party stands for fundamental social change.

We consider that the problems of inequality, discrimination and ecological destruction, can only be addressed by making fundamental changes to the way the Australian and global economies are organised.

Most importantly decision making has to be put in the hands of ordinary working people and taken away from the corporate rich who presently control the economy and governments. Venezuela's 21st Century socialism provides an example of how this can be done and how it can benefit the great majority of people - who have nothing to gain from the growing wealth of a shrinking number of super wealthy international corporations. This includes the Australian corporations that try to convince us to "buy Australian" and make them wealthier.

The Revolutionary Socialists believe that working people must unite and fight to build their own movements and organisations and construct this radically different form of government and society - a socialism of the 21st Century.

* Against racism! Against imperialist war!
* For solidarity between all working people, of all nations!
* Working people keep the country running, working people should run the country!

Support Hamish Chitts and the RSP against Kevin Rudd and the policies of the Labor government.

For further information contact:
Hamish Chitts 0401 586 923.
Email: brisbane@rsp.org.au
www.rsp.org.au