Schools kids across the country are set to walk out of classrooms next week in protest against Pauline Hanson and her One Nation Party.
The High School Anti-Capitalists, a radical students’ group, is staging demonstrations in capital cities for August 13 and released a “walkout guide” which includes advice on how to convince fellow classmate to join in.
The radical group, which shares affectionate posts of Vladimir Lenin on Instagram and offers courses on how to start a revolution — claimed Ms Hanson’s party was “racist”, homophobic and “anti-worker”, and called on students to protest against what it described as the rising influence of her party ahead of state elections in Victoria.
“Hand in hand with the billionaires and the ruling elites, One Nation has a vision for a more authoritarian, hate-filled society for ordinary people, while creating an opulent paradise for the billionaires, landlords and ruling elites,” a poster read.
The group appeared to call One Nation supporters “bigots and sickos” and accused the major parties of normalising Senator Hanson’s policies.
“We need an alternative that fights and organises against the far-right,” the same poster read.
“The High School Anticapitalists think that One Nation’s vitriolic, racist and anti-worker politics must not go unopposed.”
The group, which has the backing of the National Union of Students, slammed Labor’s national security policy and accuse it of jumping “on the train of Islamophobia”. It said the Liberals’ ‘Australian Values Migration Plan’ was “virtually indistinguishable” from that of One Nation’s plans and accused The Greens of being sellouts.
“The Greens are no alternative,” they wrote. “Despite holding left-wing positions on certain questions, the party fundamentally supports the continuation of capitalism, albeit a nicer and fairer version.”
The group’s leaflet includes information on the time and locations of protests, One Nation’s latest national polling, and a script on how to convince fellow classmate to join the walkout.
It includes advice like creating a group chat for the day with classmates, putting up posters in schools and inside lockers and to follow and share content from the group’s social media accounts.
It comes after hundreds of protesters rallied outside a One Nation event in Melbourne earlier this week where Ms Hanson was speaking.
The party’s supporters met to see the new Victorian party leader and candidates for the November election at the fundraiser in Hawthorn.
Protesters carried banners and others used loud speaker, according to the ABC.
Earlier that day, One Nation unveiled its upper house candidates for the upcoming Victorian election.
Ms Hanson blocked three media outlets from attending the announcement.
On Monday, Ms Hanson revealed the seven candidates and one incumbent who would run for the party at the November election, but reporters from the ABC, The Age and The Guardian were denied entry.
Media allowed to ask questions of the career politician queried why the outlets were banned.
“I’m sorry that democracy doesn’t happen on the ABC at all. And I’m sick of it, it’s not fair and just in their reporting,” Ms Hanson said.
“So if you want to criticise and have a go at me not putting the truth across, you’re not giving me the truth of democracy either.
“And so therefore, no, I’m not going to have them.”
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