Left Renewal  Left Renewal is a political faction that exists within the Australian Greens, primarily the NSW Greens branch, which was established publicly in late 2016. Described by elements of the media as hard left, it regularly promotes ideologies and beliefs such as: anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism, feminism, and anti-racist arguments through its online spaces and community events. Left Renewal launched their official Statement of Principles in late December, 2016. It mirrors the Four Pillars that are the foundation policies of The Australian Greens and state Greens branches, with added emphasis on the intersection between these pillars and a critique of capitalism. The group has also made comment, through Facebook posts, printed flyers, and other media, on issues such as left populism, the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, rape culture, carceral feminism, Indigenous sovereignty, Palestinian self-determination and the state of Israel, the rise of modern fascism, the Australian housing crisis of the 2010s, public school funding, the RAAF's participation in the Syrian conflict, the refugee crisis and Australia's refugee detention centres, penalty rates, and many other progressive issues. The Left Renewal platform argues that society's struggle for social justice brings people into irreconcilable conflict with the capitalist mode of production and all other forms of class society, requiring them to take a strong stance on the struggle of the working class. This understanding of the working class extends "past the factory" to include home workers, sex workers, and others. It promotes workplace organising and support union activity as a vital political activity, whether in syndicates or traditional union structures. As part of this, the group commits to never undermining the industrial action of workers, a reference to the practice of 'scabbing' on striking workers by crossing a picket-line. Furthermore, the group pledges to join a union of some form in whatever place they may work. As part of the social justice principle, the group recognises the need to create alternatives to and challenge all authoritarian and exploitative economic models, which it argues must ultimately require socialising the means of production. It rejects the idea that society can truly be changed through ‘good people’ gaining control of authoritarian and exploitative power structures, and that individual changes to personal consumption can create change. Finally, it outlines the necessity to take strategic concerns seriously. This includes unity and solidarity on the principle that work should serve to accomplish political goals, strengthen grassroots movements, build political consciousness, and lead the world on a path to social transformation. As part of the group's interpretation of the 'grassroots democracy' pillar of the party, the statement strongly argues for a participatory, democratic society that they say will be embodied in the organisation, through value the organisation places on participatory self-management, through members having agency over decisions which affect them, and through access to resources on which they are dependent in proportion to the degree to which they are affected.