Nepal's crisis: No way out under capitalism
Sunday, November 30 @ 20:13:21 CST

SINCE THE collapse of negotiations in late August, over 1,000 have died in clashes between Nepal's military and Maoist rebels. A weak ruling monarchy represses the masses in this impoverished and largely rural country of 25 million people. As HUGH CAFFREY explains, under capitalism, this beautiful part of the planet is a social nightmare for workers and the peasantry.

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Review: Empire Defeated
Monday, November 24 @ 14:52:08 CST

EMPIRE DEFEATED, the new book by Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe, has been published at a time when many are drawing parallels between the Vietnam War and the war and occupation of Iraq. In this interview, Peter Taaffe explains the background to his writing of the book and draws out some of the main lessons we can learn for today. Also, extract from book.
AVAILABLE NOW FROM SP IN AUSTRALIA $16

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SP fortnightly political report
Wednesday, November 19 @ 19:08:49 CST

A new SP feature - fortnightly analysis of international and local events - runs parallel with weekly SP newsletter

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UNITE on page 2 of Age with colour photos!
Thursday, November 13 @ 18:49:20 CST

The UNITE campaign has had massive coverage in today's Melbourne Age in relation to its campaign to clean up Brunswick St, Fitzroy
Check out the article
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also read the Age forum on casualisation created on their web page as a result of the article. It has stories from casual staff...
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UNITE Dob in a Boss rally 6th December
Wednesday, November 12 @ 17:32:54 CST

At 12 noon on Saturday 6th December the most aggressive workers’ campaign in recent times will be launched in Melbourne.

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Ireland: Aussies asked to email jailed activists!
Wednesday, November 12 @ 17:02:51 CST

On Tuesday last, a further 6 anti-bin tax protesters were jailed for their opposition to the bin tax and to the non-collection of tens of thousands of householders' rubbish in the South Dublin area. Among the 6 jailed was Fionn Ryder (25 years old), Socialist Party member and a member of the branch committee of the An Post branch of the CPSU and David Murphy (20), ISR/Socialist Youth member who was this year elected as a class rep on the University College Dublin (UCD) Student Council.
Matt Waine

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New Zealand: Activists picket Labour Party conference
Wednesday, November 12 @ 16:59:32 CST

On Saturday, 8 November delegates attending the annual NZ Labour Party conference at the Christchurch Convention Centre were able to witness two strongly contrasting styles of democracy.
By a CWI correspondent in Christchurch

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US taking the world on a ''Road to ruin''
Wednesday, November 05 @ 19:40:23 CST

Road to ruin
Thousands of words have been written about al-Qaida and the war on terror, yet the US is in denial about what is potentially its most dangerous enemy - nature. Matthew Engel journeys across America, from Salton Sea in California to Crooked Creek in Florida, and reports on how America is ravaging the planet without a care for the future.
From Guardian Weekly, 6th November 2003

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Iraq occupation
Tuesday, November 04 @ 17:42:42 CST

Grim reality hits US leaders
US DEPUTY defence secretary and right-wing political hawk Paul Wolfowitz got a taste of Iraqi realities when rockets slammed into the supposedly secure al-Rashid hotel where he stayed in Baghdad last week.

Plus article on the massive anti-war demonstration in Washington DC on October 25

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UNITE day of action plus its 2nd training day
Thursday, October 30 @ 19:21:30 CST

Unite is holding a day of action on Brunswick St, Fitzroy on Saturday 6th December from 12 noon, meeting outside Black Cat cafe, 252 Brunswick St, Fitzroy and then marching down the street. Naming and Shaming is set to begin!

The following week Unite is hosting the second trade union training day from 2pm on Saturday 13th December at Trades Hall. The theme is: How to organise

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Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech - 1956
Thursday, October 30 @ 19:07:18 CST

Speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union by Khrushchev.
The slave labour camps in the USSR and the bureacractic mismanagement of the economy were leading to a backsliding of society and potential opposition from below. Khrushchev, who himself had been in the top leadership during the purges of the 1930s, had to act to distance himself from Stalin as a means of survival.
Khrushchev's earthshattering speech had a huge impact on stattering the remaining illusions in Stalinism amongst workers and peasants worldwide.

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New Poll on Workers' Party
Sunday, October 26 @ 22:50:02 CST

After the success of the Hanson poll, we have a new front page poll. Vote now! For SP's position on this issue read "Feature on the new workers' party debate" on this web site (use search engine)

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Brazil: Lula fails the working class - Is it time for a new left party?
Sunday, October 26 @ 03:33:43 CST

"I am not saying that the dream is over, but I think I dreamed the wrong dream”. Those were the words of former PT (Workers’ Party) federal deputy from Rio de Janeiro, Fernando Gabeira, who has just announced his resignation from the PT in protest against the Lula government's environmental policy.

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Bolivia: Workers’ and poor peoples’ uprising forces out President
Saturday, October 25 @ 03:38:20 CDT

Over the last weeks, a powerful movement of workers, peasants and the indigenous peoples – the poorest people in the poorest country of Latin America – has checked the neo-liberal plans of the Bolivian government and, on 17 October, forced President Gonzalo Sánchez de Losada to resign.

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Review: Is this how to dump Bush?
Saturday, October 25 @ 03:35:03 CDT

Michael Moore said "barring success", Stupid White Men, (reviewed in The Socialist, issue 254), would be his last book. But last year when George W Bush was supposedly so popular, it was the leading non-fiction book bought and read by Americans. So he's written Dude, Where's My Country?

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What happened in Canberra
Thursday, October 23 @ 22:49:25 CDT

SP report on the Canberra protests over the President Bush visit

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Irish Socialist Party & the Bin Tax Campaign in the National Media (downloads)
Thursday, October 23 @ 22:00:41 CDT

kevin_s writes " SINCE THEIR release from prison last Saturday, Cllr Clare Daly and Joe Higgins TD have been featuring prominently on the national broadcaster RTE. Below you will find downloads of some of these appearences in MP3 and RealPlayer format. Joe Higgins on Saturday View Almost immediatley after his release from Mountjoy Prison, Joe Higgins appeared via telephone on Rodney Rice's Saturday View political debate show. Joe debated the bin tax issue with members of the main establishment parties, fellow Dublin West TD Brian Lenihan (Fianna Fail), Eamonn Gilmore (Labour) and Olivia Mitchell (Fine Gael). You can download the show here
(Opens in New Window) Clare Daly and Michael Murphy on the Marian Finucane Show Clare and Michael appeared on the Marian Finucane Show on Monday morning and debated the bin tax issue with Marian and various callers. You can download the show here
(Opens in New Window) Joe Higgins vs Michael McDowell on Questions & Answers On Monday night, Joe was one of the guests on John Bowman's Questions & Answers TV show political debate show. Also guesting on the show was Minister for Justice Michael McDowell (Progressive Democrats) and Joe took the oppurtunity to tear into government policy on various issues from the bin tax to immigration. You see the show here
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Ireland: Higgins and Daly released!
Sunday, October 19 @ 23:52:08 CDT

Report from website of RTE, Irish state broadcaster

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East Timor: Fury as Australia plays tough over gas reserves
Sunday, October 19 @ 18:53:44 CDT

Australia's imperialist role in East Timor; includes amazing quote from Foreign Minister Alexander Downer. From Guardian, UK - 14th October 2003

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SP political statement on Bush visit to Australia
Sunday, October 19 @ 18:46:49 CDT

Bush + Howard talk in Canberra: The implications for the working class of a Free Trade Agreement

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World Economy: Will be there be a recovery?
Wednesday, October 15 @ 23:27:09 CDT

CAN US capitalism pull the world economy out of its present stagnation? Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism Today, looks at the world economy today.

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Scotland and the National Question
Saturday, October 11 @ 04:44:56 CDT

The latest statement on the National Question from the International Socialists, CWI section in Scotland - Good on Scotland, good on Marxist approach to the National Question

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US: Revival of anti-war movement in Seattle
Saturday, October 11 @ 04:12:31 CDT

There was a 300-strong rally and march against the US military occupation of Iraq in Seattle on 6 October. The protest was primarily organised by the Seattle branch of ‘Not In Our Name (NION)’.
Ramy Khalil, Seattle, Socialist Alternative (US CWI section)

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Ireland: 10 more anti-bin tax protesters jailed
Thursday, October 09 @ 17:51:08 CDT

Thursday morning, October 9, saw 10 local residents jailed for two weeks (one woman with a small child for one week because she has to breastfeed her baby) for their part in the ongoing protests against the imposition of a new charge for collecting rubbish, the bin tax.

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Israel: Support the port workers' strike!
Monday, October 06 @ 19:04:07 CDT

Israeli port workers are fighting a crucial battle for their jobs, their conditions and the future of the Israeli working class, and have been on a full strike since Tuesday, September 30.

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Reading for UNITE day school, 11th October 2003
Monday, October 06 @ 18:47:18 CDT

Occupational Health and Safety Act 1985
Workplace Relations Act 1996
National Building and Construction Industry Award 2000
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Ireland: Free the bin tax two
Saturday, October 04 @ 04:56:20 CDT

Irish Times columnist misses Joe Higgins and ridicules main parties. The following humorous article was published in the Irish Times newspaper today.

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2 Editorials from latest The Socialist, SP's newspaper
Friday, October 03 @ 20:23:19 CDT

1 - Why Socialist oppose the jailing of Hanson and Ettridge...
2 - The period we're in...

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Australia's intervention into Papua New Guinea
Friday, October 03 @ 20:18:54 CDT

Howard acting in the interests of his class...

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For a national 24 hour strike to save Medicare!
Friday, October 03 @ 20:15:51 CDT

The SP has been campaigning on this issue, raising 7000 signatures on petitions, working with others on pro-Medicare rallies, and getting out the propaganda against the cuts. However, the only organisations with the strength to stop the Federal government are the trade unions.

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