New Zealand/Aotearoa: Beat back Brash!
Saturday, April 17 @ 02:44:20 CDT

How could it have happened? Don Brash the former World Bank economist and Rogernomics guru has suddenly started parading as champion of egalitarianism and taken the Nats to a shock 10% lead over Labour in the polls.
By Tim Bowen, CWI New Zealand

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Report on the Casual Workers' Conference
Saturday, April 17 @ 02:39:23 CDT

About 80 mainly young casual workers attended the Unite Casual Workers’ Conference in Melbourne’s Trades Hall on April 3rd. After a VJ performance (video and reggae music) on casualisation, the Conference was opened by Lynn Beaton, a left wing academic concentrating on the rise of casualisation. She showed with facts and figures that casualisation is a massive growing feature of Australia’s workplace relations, especially effecting women.

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Militant Aboriginal Activist to speak at Trades Hall this Tuesday
Friday, April 16 @ 06:09:40 CDT

Comrades
This Tuesday, in marvellous timing, the SP (Melbourne City branch) hosts Gary Foley talking on the future for Aboriginal Australia.
Gary is one of the most militant Aboriginal activists in Australia, active since the Freedom Marches of the 1960s to struggle (successful) to save Northland Secondary College from Kennett's closures in 1993-94.
The meeting will be at the Trades Hall bar, 7.30pm, this Tuesday April 20th.
All welcome


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Einstein on socialism
Tuesday, March 30 @ 03:04:51 CST

Here is an article on the need for socialism by someone regarded as one of the greatest thinkers of all time: Albert Einstein.

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Taiwan: Bitter struggle after election
Thursday, March 25 @ 18:14:38 CST

Cries of "stolen election", 337,000 spoiled ballots, a double assassination attempt and riots in the streets... Taiwan’s presidential election had it all!
Laurence Coates, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, CWI Sweden

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Middle East: Hamas’ leader assassinated
Tuesday, March 23 @ 20:42:51 CST

Working people of the region will pay the price
Ariel Gottlieb, Maavak Sozialisti, CWI Israel

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Madrid bombings – ''The wars are yours – the deaths are ours''
Tuesday, March 16 @ 20:07:02 CST

Committee for a Workers’ International statement
By Tony Saunois
"The wars are yours – the deaths are ours," read one placard on a demonstration in Madrid in the early hours, last Sunday morning. It summed up the mood of millions throughout Spain just days after the horrific bombings in Madrid had left 200 dead and 1,400 injured.

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European Greens unite - but are they a radical alternative?
Monday, March 08 @ 23:28:08 CST

A critical analysis of the Greens in Europe, has lessons for Greens in Australia

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Casual Workers' Conference
Monday, March 08 @ 23:18:08 CST

An impressive array of speakers are assembling for the Casual Workers' Conference, on Saturday 3rd April at Melbourne's Trades Hall, organised by Unite.
The Conference has three aims: 1) For the voice of casual workers to be heard and to make casualisation a mainstream political issue and debate; 2) To skill up casual workers on their legal and industrial rights and lack of rights; and 3) to begin the job of organising Australia's 2.2 million casual workers

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Socialist Party Australia International Womens' Day Statement
Sunday, March 07 @ 04:01:09 CST

The Howard Government is trying to reverse all the gains made by the women’s movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Although never perfect, accessible child care, gender neutral benefits, free education and health care, and permanent fulltime or part-time jobs are all under threat today.

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Why socialists should oppose the ban of the hijab
Sunday, March 07 @ 03:57:40 CST

Will the banning of headscarves contribute to the emancipation of women?
CWI statement

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International Women’s Day 2004
Thursday, March 04 @ 03:30:16 CST

Women against war and capitalism
The day of international working women’s solidarity – 8 March – is celebrated this year just days before the first anniversary of imperialism’s attack on Iraq.
Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) Statement. CWI is the international organisation that the Socialist Party is affiliated to.

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What is happening in Haiti?
Monday, March 01 @ 19:45:54 CST

Aristide flees country as US sends troops

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Report from last weekend's British Socialist Party Conference
Monday, February 23 @ 03:42:53 CST

Growing support and influence for socialist alternative to New Labour
Exactly one year after 2 million people took to the streets of London to oppose the Iraq war the Socialist Party (CWI Section in England and Wales) held its national conference.

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'On the Picket Line' radio show, on Melbourne's 3CR
Sunday, February 22 @ 21:35:00 CST

Announcement
THE ‘ON THE PICKET LINE ’ SHOW
10am EVERY SUNDAY MORNING LIVE ON RADIO STATION 3CR 855 AM in Melbourne
A BROAD BASED RANK AND FILE TRADE UNION SHOW PRODUCED BY MEMBERS FOR MEMBERS
TO GET YOUR WORKPLACE STORY ON AIR OR TO GET INVOLVED WITH THE SHOW
‘ WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE YOU’VE GOT NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOUR CHAINS’
The Socialist Party are proud supporters of the ‘On The Picket Line’ show.

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Announcement: Special offer on The Socialist, SP's newspaper
Sunday, February 22 @ 21:32:09 CST

FIRST 50 PEOPLE TO CONTACT THE SOCIALIST PARTY WILL RECEIVE A FREE COPY OF ‘THE SOCIALIST’, THE SP’s 12 PAGE BI-MONTHLY NEWSPAPER. DELIVERED DIRECT TO YOUR DOOR.
Feb-March 2004 Edition out now! Includes articles on ‘Sack Howard in 2004’, the UNITE Campaign, Troops out of Iraq, Marginal tax rate Newcastle Rail, attacks on the CFMEU, What’s really behind Latham’s policies and much, much more.

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Redfern Riots
Saturday, February 21 @ 01:55:50 CST

An initial comment from the Socialist Party in Sydney

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Unite Web Site launched
Thursday, February 19 @ 17:53:08 CST

Unite, the casual workers' campaign, has launched its web site. Thanks to Tim for all the hard work.

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World Social Forum, Mumbai
Monday, February 16 @ 23:40:20 CST

The politics of the WSF and socialism
Intervening in the World Social Forum in Mumbai was very much like intervening in one six day-long demonstration. The activity was more or less constant from eight in the morning until nine or ten at night.
Per-eke Westerlund, CWI

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First Ever Casual Workers Conference
Sunday, February 15 @ 16:50:26 CST

Comrades
The first ever Casual Workers Conference has been called by Unite for Saturday 3rd April 2004.
The Conference will be an opportunity for the voice of casual workers to be heard. 2.2 million (1 million casual for over one year) face a working life without sickies, holidays, job security, the ability to get a loan and more.

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New Zealand: Socialism and the struggle for Maori Liberation
Thursday, February 12 @ 21:52:28 CST

Making Sense of the Foreshore and Seabed Controversy
By Tim Bowen, CWI New Zealand

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How capitalism works
Wednesday, February 11 @ 18:47:46 CST

A basic introduction to Marxist economics

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Australian Economy
Wednesday, February 11 @ 18:44:27 CST

Are we really in an economic boom? Questions and answers on the Australian economy for workers...

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Casual workers deserve better: We are workers, not slaves
Wednesday, February 11 @ 18:26:36 CST

Latest Unite news and activities...

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Victorian Posties get militant!
Wednesday, February 11 @ 18:20:48 CST

January 2004 saw almost 300 Australia Post workers in Victoria take industrial action for the first time in years. The dispute arose from plans by Australia Post to move a mail centre from its current site in Port Melbourne to a new site in Ardeer.

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Western Australian teachers' dispute
Wednesday, February 11 @ 17:10:42 CST

WA Teachers Union leadership fails members yet again!
By John Gowland, WA teacher and SP Perth

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A guide to this years attack on Australia's strongest union
Wednesday, February 11 @ 17:03:17 CST

This year will see a huge attack by the Federal Government on Australia’s strongest union, the construction division of the CFMEU.
All workers should make it their business to understand the issues and get behind this pace-setting union. Here is a guide to the key points...

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Marginal Tax Rate: Howard slugs low income earners
Wednesday, February 11 @ 16:56:38 CST

The marginal tax rate for low income earners is trapping millions of people (mainly women) at home or into cash-in-hand casual work.

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Sack Howard in 2004!
Wednesday, February 11 @ 16:55:11 CST

By Gary Duffy, SP Sydney

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Lenin: The original dictator?
Tuesday, February 10 @ 18:38:05 CST

In a moment of exaltation when US troops conquered Baghdad on April 10 last year, the US Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, proclaimed that “Saddam Hussein is now taking his rightful place alongside Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Ceausescu in the pantheon of failed, brutal dictators”. Eighty years after the death of Lenin, the ruling classes globally still link him to the most horrific dictators.
PER ÅKE WESTERLUND looks at the reasons behind these decades of slander.

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