https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Constitutional-change-symbolism-won-t-cut-it https://internationalviewpoint.org/Constitutional-change-symbolism-won-t-cut-it 2017-07-03T14:19:11Z text/html en Diane Fieldes Australia <p>If one thing is clear from the “<a href="https://www.referendumcouncil.org.au/sites/default/files/2017-05/Uluru_Statement_From_The_Heart_0.PDF" class="spip_out" rel="external">Uluru Statement From the Heart</a>” issued after a large Indigenous conference in late May, it is that mere symbolic constitutional recognition of their existence will not satisfy Indigenous people.<br class='autobr' /> The Uluru Statement reflects, in some measure, their desire for real structural change to address the effects of racism and dispossession, for a treaty and for a real say in what happens to them.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV510-July-2017-" rel="directory">IV510 - July 2017</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Australia-+" rel="tag">Australia</a>