Latest industrial news from SP
Friday, October 03 @ 20:12:52 CDT

National Teachers Strike...Adelaide bus workers...TWU/Qantas dispute...Sutton charged by rank and filer...CFMEU preparing for a big fight...

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Please Sign online Petition to Release Socialist MP + Councillor
Thursday, October 02 @ 21:09:30 CDT

Join the growing number of Australians signing this important petition...

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ACTU Congress report back
Thursday, October 02 @ 21:07:05 CDT

Jacquiline Depru, ACTU delegate and SP member (name changed to stop victimisation) reports on a Congress opened by a police band and addressed by the Qantas boss on same day she announced 25% of her staff to be sacked...

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Introduction to trade unionism
Thursday, October 02 @ 21:03:43 CDT

A feature spread compiled by Anthony Main, Victorian AMWU (Metals Division), personal capacity
Many young people today find it hard to see the point in joining a trade union. Unions often seem outdated and out of touch. The following is the Socialist Party’s contributions to this debate, an attempt to simplify and explain why we think it is still worth being a trade unionist in 2003.

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China's interest in the North Korean crisis
Thursday, October 02 @ 20:56:06 CDT

By Greg Bradshaw, Melbourne City branch SP

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Sri Lanka: Victory for Health Workers!
Tuesday, September 30 @ 20:04:42 CDT

The CWI-led union has won an important industrial battle in Sri Lanka

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Irish SP analysis the recent jailings and what it means
Saturday, September 27 @ 19:12:31 CDT

Northern Ireland SP Secretary Peter Haddan gives a Marxist explanation of the current battle in Dublin

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UNITE: New SP-initiated campaign is kicking goals
Saturday, September 27 @ 03:37:14 CDT

An exciting new campaign in Melbourne (based on a similar one in New Zealand) is beginning the task of fighting the exploitation of casual workers. Unite Co-ordinator Nicki Jonas reports...

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Trotsky on Unions
Friday, September 26 @ 23:47:26 CDT

Trade Unions in the epoch of imperialist decay - an unfinished article by Trotsky found on his desk when he was murdered by a Stalinist agent in Mexico in August 1940. Goes to the heart of the role of the union bureaucracy in propping up capitalism

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Ireland: Higgins replies to ICTU leaders' ''Stab in the back''
Friday, September 26 @ 22:52:23 CDT

Ireland – Free the bin tax two: Joe Higgins infuriated over ICTU leader Begg's "Stab in the back"

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Sri Lanka: 15,000 health workers on mass picket in Colombo
Wednesday, September 24 @ 22:29:31 CDT

The CWI-led health workers' strike in Sri Lanka is now (21 September) in its 6th day.

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Ireland Bin Tax: 5000 march in Dublin against jailings
Wednesday, September 24 @ 18:19:09 CDT

Five thousand march in Dublin to ‘bin the tax’ and demand the release of Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins and councillor Clare Daly - Plus report of solidarity action by SP at Irish Consul offices in Melbourne

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Why I joined the Socialist Party
Tuesday, September 23 @ 20:09:41 CDT

3 new members explain themselves

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Unite in New Zealand
Monday, September 22 @ 23:21:51 CDT

Tim Bowron, CWI NZ, reports on Unite, the new union for casual/low paid workers in New Zealand and an inspiration for Unite in Australia

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The politics of the web
Sunday, September 21 @ 05:39:30 CDT

A socialist perspective on web page politics. From upcoming issue of The Socialist. By Stephen Jolly

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1937: Stalin's Year of Terror
Sunday, September 21 @ 05:20:29 CDT

Stephen Jolly reviews Vadim Z. Rogovin's book on the darkest year of Stalinism

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Swedish Euro Referendum
Sunday, September 21 @ 01:17:36 CDT

Workers firmly reject bosses’ Europe

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CWI youth leader set to be jailed in Britain
Saturday, September 20 @ 19:14:01 CDT

Karl Debbaut, the co-ordinator of the International Socialist Resistance (the international CWI led youth socialist movement) is set to be jailed as a result of an incident at an anti-war rally earlier this year in London.

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Ireland: Irish Times photo and article
Saturday, September 20 @ 19:07:00 CDT

Joe Higgins being led into Bridewell Garda station
Picture and report on Irish Times web site. Sunday 21 October 2003

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Ireland: SP MP + Councillor Jailed for 1 month, $50,000 fines
Saturday, September 20 @ 03:16:49 CDT

Jailings will only intensify campaign - A fighting stand taken in a Press Release from Anti-Bin Tax Campaign. Saturday 20th September 2003.

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Ireland: Socialist Party MP and Councillor set to be jailed!
Saturday, September 20 @ 03:11:31 CDT

Ireland: Breaking news
MP Joe Higgins and councillor Clare Daly sent to Mountjoy Prison today!
Their ‘crime’ is defending the poor in the fight against the Bin Tax!

This afternoon a Dublin court summarily meted out one month prison sentences on Socialist Party MP Joe Higgins and Socialist Party councillor Clare Daly.


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UNITE Launch today: Who got the sticker?
Saturday, September 20 @ 01:50:02 CDT

Report of todays UNITE launch on Brunswick St - Saturday 20th September

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UNITE: This Saturday, calling all casuals in Melbourne!
Monday, September 15 @ 23:08:03 CDT

UNITE meeting for all workers on Brunswick St
On Saturday 20th September at 3pm at the Provincial Hotel (cnr Brunswick/Johnston Sts) the UNITE campaign is announcing which shops, bars, restaurants and coffee shops on Brunswick St have confirmed their decent treatment of their casual staff and are therefore getting the sticker of approval (see below) for their shop.

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UNITE: Your minimum rights as a casual
Monday, September 15 @ 23:05:48 CDT

Many casual workers don't know they have some basic minimum legal rights

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UNITE: What is this new casual worker campaign about?
Monday, September 15 @ 23:03:17 CDT

UNITE is a new campaign fighting for the rights of casual workers, starting with a campaign on Brunswick St, Fitzroy.

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Sweden: Murder of Anna Lindh
Saturday, September 13 @ 19:11:12 CDT

Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna strongly condems the horrific murder of Sweden’s Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.
Executive Committee of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

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Chile - 9/11 1973: Heroism was not enough
Saturday, September 13 @ 19:08:03 CDT

The other "9/11". Tony Saunois, secretary of the CWI, explains how this tragedy unfolded and the lessons for today. Article from September 1998 edition of Socialism Today.

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Italy September 1920: The Occupation of the Factories
Monday, September 08 @ 23:27:03 CDT

The Lost Revolution by Fernando D'Alessandro. The Fascists were able to rise to power because the workers had faced a terrible defeat during the struggles of 1920. This article explains why that movement went down to defeat and draws the lessons for today.

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The crisis of 1923
Monday, September 08 @ 23:24:41 CDT

Socialist analysis of the failed German Revolution of 1923

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Lessons of October
Monday, September 08 @ 23:22:43 CDT

Written by Leon Trotsky in the wake of the German Revolution of 1923. Trotsky discusses this defeat and the role played by Stalin and the Communist International. Draws similarites between their mistakes and those make by Zinoviev and Kamenev in the weeks prior to the Russian Revolution in October 1917

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