RYSA organises an annual youth socialist conference, known as "Radical Ideas", with the 2017 edition held in North Melbourne from 18–20 August.
Current national campaigns include: action on climate change,[2] equal marriage rights, rolling back the Northern Territory Intervention,[3] ending mandatory detention for asylum seekers, equal rights for women,[4] Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel,[5] and stopping cuts to tertiary education.
[9] However, the majority of those attending the founding meeting of the VMC rejected the CPA's proposals; Jim Percy, a leading member of Resistance, played a leading role in the following Moratorium campaign of independent mass mobilisations against the war, which built the largest antiwar actions ever seen in Australia at that time, with 75,000 marching in Melbourne and 20,000 marching in Sydney.
[9] The original name for the organisation was SCREW, said either to stand for Society for the Cultivation of Rebellion Every Where, or Sydney Committee for Revolution and Emancipation of the Working Class.
Conference participants joined local union activists in a protest at Coles in solidarity with striking transport workers.