Time to take stock in the student movement
Wednesday, April 21 @ 20:44:18 CDT

Last month about 1,000 students participated in the all-Melbourne student rally against the increasing in fees by the vast majority of Australia’s universities. In Sydney there were similar numbers.

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Spanish bombing/Iraq: It's Australia's time bomb
Monday, April 19 @ 01:34:32 CDT

Editorial in April/May 2004 issue of the The Socialist

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Howard has to go!
Monday, April 19 @ 01:18:30 CDT

After 8 long years the wait is almost over. That man who said “never, ever” when questioned about a proposed GST, whose raised eyebrows frowned upon “those evil illegals” throwing their children overboard and who would have us believe that invading Iraq was for the benefit of the Iraqi people, will be replaced as Prime Minister when Australians go to the polls later on this year.
By Andrew Calleja, Socialist Party Melbourne

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Where are our trade unions going?
Saturday, April 17 @ 02:53:00 CDT

Europeanisation is the return of militant unionism after decades of right wing leadership doing the work for the bosses. 2004 has seen the beginning of Europeanisation of unions in Australia.
By John Gowland, Socialist Party Perth

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Trade unionist facing trumped up charges
Saturday, April 17 @ 02:49:13 CDT

Almost two years ago an industrial dispute arose at a company in Melbourne’s Eastern Suburbs called Johnson Tiles. The company decided to sack 29 maintenance workers and replace them with scab labour from a body hire firm called Skilled Engineering.
By Anthony Main, Socialist Party Melbourne

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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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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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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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What's behind Mark Latham's policies?
Sunday, February 08 @ 05:33:52 CST

Editorial statement from SP paper, The Socialist, February-March 2004

Mark Latham’s dream run in the media since being elected leader of the ALP has generated a sense of hope amongst workers. Many now believe that ALP has a chance of beating the Coalition and even that the ALP itself might show a change for the better.

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Obituary: John Lou 1953-2003
Sunday, February 08 @ 05:28:00 CST

By Dave O'Brien, CFMEU activist and Socialist Party Melbourne

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Hands off Newcastle stations!
Sunday, February 08 @ 05:12:58 CST

By Samantha Ashby, Socialist Party Newcastle
As a new resident of Newcastle, NSW it is hard to imagine a stranger idea than closing the railway access into the city and business center.

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New SP poll on 2004 Federal election
Monday, January 12 @ 02:50:11 CST

Who do you think will win the 2004 Federal election? Vote on our web site, front page, bottom left...

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DSP dissolves and reemerges as the...DSP!
Thursday, January 08 @ 05:29:08 CST

Comment on new DSP manoeuvre by Stephen Jolly, SP National Secretary
The Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) has voted over the break to dissolve itself as a party and reemerge as the DSP - the Democratic Socialist Perspective, a faction within the Socialist Alliance. In effect this makes the Socialist Alliance more than ever a DSP front...Read rest of this article by clicking below
Plus read the DSP resolution re their dissolving into a faction of SA
Plus read Sydney socialist Bob Gould's analysis of the DSP resolution. Despite its digs at us, it is a good critique of this tactical ploy by the DSP leadership dressed up as a principled strategic turn.
Plus read our original reasons for not joining SA and our perspectives for it, written in 2001 and proved correct today

Blast from the past: Extract from SP letter to Socialist Alliance in February 2001:
"No such forces exist as a basis for this proposed allliance. It would be a fundamental error to be under the illusion that a new viable party will be created by the gathering together of the already-existing small left parties and a very thin layer of non-aligned individuals. This layer, in addition to being small, is also overwhelmingly made up of long-standing activists, rather than of fresh layers just moving into struggle.
"We are in favour of a new mass party for the working class. This will not develop immediately but over a period and this process cannot be viewed in isolation from the class struggle and the situation in the workers’ movement. Any attempt to declare a new party of the working class before the forces necessary to make such a formation real have congregated, will end up the same way as the PLP."

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Labor calls for inquiry into survelliance of Medicare campaign
Monday, December 22 @ 17:55:04 CST

Federal Labor is calling for the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security to investigate whether the Federal Government used police and intelligence agencies to discredit a campaign to defend Medicare.
The Socialist Party welcomes this call. SP is involved in the campaign, and the party and its members were attacked by the Government and the Murdoch press.
Read Melbourne Age report on Labor's call...

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SP fortnightly political report, 8/12/03, Latham's Victory Analysed
Sunday, December 07 @ 16:41:54 CST

The SP welcomes the debate, discussion and vote inside the ALP around the question of its Federal leadership. Far better a vote than a backroom deal. The issue of Beazley vs. Latham was an issue of discussion amongst workers for days and this provided an opportunity for socialists to contribute with their ideas.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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WA: Safety strike set to close building sites
Thursday, September 04 @ 18:24:43 CDT

By Jerry Pratley
BUILDING sites in Perth are to grind to a halt as unionists strike over safety.

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"Howard's not invincible" - bourgeois journalist fret over government crisis
Sunday, August 31 @ 19:07:40 CDT

Behind the high polls, the Federal government is directionless with growing anger from ordinary people on Medicare and higher education. Only the uselessness of the Labor Opposition is keeping Howard ahead. This article from Murdoch's Australian (1st September 2003) shows the fear of the more far-sighted bourgeois journalists of a rapid collapse in support for the government.

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Hanson in Jail Survey
Wednesday, August 27 @ 04:10:43 CDT

Should socialists support the jailing of Pauline Hanson? Some say let her rot in hell. Others say she merely broke an undemocratic law that restricts the rights of small parties and that the major parties do much worse. Others are unsure. What's your opinion? Vote on our main home page poll...

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