The Reasons Behind the Iraq Invasion
Friday, July 02 @ 00:54:14 CDT

OIL, MONEY, POWER AND THE US ADMINISTRATION IN IRAQ
By Gregory Bradshaw, Melbourne City branch SP

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In defence of October
Wednesday, June 30 @ 05:16:17 CDT

Was the Russian Revolution of 1917 justified, especially in the context of the subsequent rise of Stalinism? Leon Trotsky's answers this question in his brilliant speech to students in Copenhagen in 1932.

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Iraq: Workers’ struggles – historic and today
Saturday, June 26 @ 20:49:20 CDT

The hidden struggle of the Iraqi working class
Links to three articles on www.uslaboragainstwar.org
Compiled by Hugh Caffrey, England and Wales Socialist Party

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Is China heading for a crash?
Saturday, June 26 @ 08:15:19 CDT

Rapid economic development over 20 years led some commentators to claim China could deliver sustained global growth. But it has started to falter, and risks becoming a destabilising factor in the world. And the dramatic growth has created vast inequalities within this vast country.
LAURENCE COATES examines the state of the Chinese economy.

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Britain: Respect and the June elections
Wednesday, June 23 @ 07:15:22 CDT

The ISO in Australia are linked to the SWP in Britain, who have moved away from the Socialist Alliance towards the new 'Respect' organisation. This excellent analysis of Respect and specifically its programme, its opportunism towards right-wing Muslim organisations, as well as their results in last weeks Euro and Council elections in Britain is well worth looking at...

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Local And Euro Elections: Important gains for Irish Socialist Party overlooked
Tuesday, June 22 @ 22:00:44 CDT

In the run-up to Irish SP MP Joe Higgins' August tour of Australia, here is an analysis of the excellent SP results in the recent local and Euro elections in the Irish Republic...

The disastrous slump in the Fianna Fáil vote and the gains for Sinn Féin in the Local and Euro Elections has led to very important gains for the Socialist Party being overlooked.

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Iraq: A transition to discontent?
Monday, June 21 @ 23:14:47 CDT

ONE REASON for Labour in Britain getting 'a good kicking' in the 10 June elections was opposition to Blair's war and occupation of Iraq.

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Crossword Solution Issue 7
Monday, June 21 @ 20:53:05 CDT



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Big Brother: ''We'll be back after this message'' - Commodification of protest
Friday, June 18 @ 18:19:23 CDT

Good article on the issues surrounding Mervin Luck's refugee protest after his eviction from Big Brother last Sunday. The author Dean Bertram is an independent film-maker, reality-TV junkie and PhD candidate in the department of history at the University of Sydney. First printed in The Australian, 15th June.

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Unite Benefit Gig Thursday night in Melbourne!
Tuesday, June 15 @ 22:16:18 CDT

BENEFIT GIG : at THE OLD COLONIAL INN, BRUNSWICK ST. THURSDAY 17 th JUNE from 8pm Bands include: The Frantics, Trickledown, Angry Kid, Dconv, Motor Vehicle Sundown

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Joe Higgins in Euro Election
Monday, June 14 @ 19:40:53 CDT

Joe Higgins TD received an excellent 23,218 first preference votes (5.5%) standing in the Dublin constituency for the European elections. Full report soon.

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CWI wins first Council seat in Germany - plus excellent Belgian results
Monday, June 14 @ 19:12:52 CDT

SAV (CWI in Germany) wins first Councillor in Rostock. Christine Lehnert will be the first directly elected Trotskyist Councillor in Germany for decades.
And in Belgium Linkse Socialistiche Partij(LSP)/Mouvement pour une Alternative Socialiste(MAS), the Belgian affiliate of the CWI, for the first time ever stood nationally in elections and won at least 19,841 votes.

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Euro and Council elections: Victory for CWI candidates!
Saturday, June 12 @ 19:27:48 CDT

Last Thursday millions of European voters went to the polls in Euro and Council elections. In Ireland the Socialist Party has doubled our number of Councillors and in Britain two SP Councillors have been re-elected and a third just missed out despite getting a higher vote than last time.
Read latest reports on the Socialist Party results from Ireland and Britain...

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Imperialism, Racism and Resistance in New Zealand/Aotearoa
Thursday, June 10 @ 20:41:53 CDT

Labour appeals to the spirit of "national unity" while waging war on workers at home and abroad
By Tim Bowron, CWI NZ

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Greens: Same game plan, different brand name
Thursday, June 10 @ 20:39:07 CDT

By Andrew Calleja, Melbourne Northern branch SP
During the euphoria that swept the Victorian Greens in the aftermath of the 2002 Yarra City council elections, incumbent Green councilors were at pains to explain that their party was progressive but with a capitalist ideology.

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Iraq invasion: A mistake the US will never recover from
Thursday, June 10 @ 20:37:12 CDT

By John Gowland, Socialist Party Perth
It is said that certain Amazon Indian tribes have developed a wonderfully simple technique of capturing monkeys, high in protein and highly prized. The cage is constructed with a nut inside but designed so that when the monkey grabs the nut its clench fist will be too large to be pulled out of the cage. The hunters simply pick the monkey up and the hunt could not be easier. The point is that despite imminent capture the monkeys cannot let go of the nut.

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Iraq: ''Democracy'' arranged
Thursday, June 10 @ 03:43:01 CDT

It is the US presidential election campaign which is governing US policy half a world away in Iraq.

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Why I joined the Socialist Party
Wednesday, June 09 @ 20:03:18 CDT

By Chris McFerran, 32, East Melbourne
I’ve never been much of a one for doing the right thing, usually because it doesn’t occur to me at the time. I consider myself the Crown Prince of what I call ‘wit delay’, the ability to think of a highly amusing retort several hours after it matters. I often find myself re-running conversations I’ve had with someone over and over in my head, becoming more debonair, eloquent and suave with each repetition. In hindsight, I’m a regular Bogart. The most annoying aspect of this is that the older I get, the worse I become at not doing or saying the right thing at the time, and the wittier the replies are later that night when I’m lying in bed thinking, "Jesus, why didn’t I say that? Now you think of it, you moron." It’s generally a big pain in the arse.

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Ronald Reagan dead: Hero of the Right
Wednesday, June 09 @ 20:00:42 CDT

Ronald Reagan, the B-movie actor who became the 40th president of the USA (1981-88) has died aged 93. Wall Street will stay closed for Reagan‘s state funeral, a salute to the godfather of today‘s stock market bubble.
By Laurence Coates, Sweden, writing in Offensiv (10 June 2004), the weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)

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Irish SP/Joe Higgins on TV for Euro election - see TV election broadcast
Monday, June 07 @ 18:01:55 CDT

In the run-up to Joe Higgins visit to Australia see the Irish Socialist Party's Election Broadcast, which went out on on television on Monday 31 May.
See also as on Monday 31 May, Joe Higgins appeared with other candidates for the Euopean Elections on RTE's political debate show Questions & Answers. Plus more information on the Irish Socialist Party's election challenge and the 'citizenship referendum'


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Analysis of Federal budget and Mark Latham's response
Monday, June 07 @ 17:56:09 CDT

Editorial from upcoming issue of The Socialist

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Australian imperialists steal East Timorese natural resources
Monday, June 07 @ 17:43:39 CDT

Australia is getting its payback for sending troops to East Timor in 1999...
A socialist analysis of the Australia-East Timor maritime and seabed border dispute

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Crime and corruption in Victoria
Sunday, June 06 @ 19:13:11 CDT

A socialist analysis of the gangland wars and police corruption in Victoria

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Victory at Borders Books!!
Friday, June 04 @ 07:26:58 CDT

Comrades,
Borders workers and Unite have beaten Borders management today!!!

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The lessons of the Craig Johnston trial
Friday, June 04 @ 00:07:09 CDT

On Friday the 21st of May, former Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian State Secretary, Craig Johnston was sentenced to jail for 12 months, (the sentence was suspended for three years). Whilst he will not have to serve jail time he was fined $10 000 and ordered to pay $44 560 in damages.
By Anthony Main, AMWU and Workers First member

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Indonesian elections: No workers' alternative on offer
Thursday, June 03 @ 01:14:32 CDT

As over 120 Millon Indonesians went to the polls on April 5th they were faced with a stark choice. Of the two major parties on offer was incumbent Democratic Party of Indonesia led by President Megawati Sukarnopoutri which for the past 5 years has failed to tackle any of the problems facing the ordinary people of Indonesia. The other major "choice" open to voters was Golkar, the party machine which supported the military dictator of 30 years, Soeharto.
By Yorran Pelekanakis, Melbourne City branch of Socialist Party

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Iraq after 30 June: Old occupation, new face
Thursday, June 03 @ 01:08:26 CDT

The occupation of Iraq has developed into a deepening crisis for US imperialism and President Bush. The present headache concerns the new Iraqi government due to take office from 30 June - an attempted fig leaf to cover Bush’s responsibility for the catastrophic developments.
By Per-Åke Westerlund, CWI Sweden

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Review of new book on BLF deregistration
Tuesday, June 01 @ 23:07:55 CDT

Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win! (Builders Labourers fight deregistration, 1981-94) is a history of the most severe defeat suffered by the Australian working class in recent times. Author Liz Ross interviewed dozens of participants in the battle and her honest account is forensic in its approach to detail.
Read rest of this review by Stephen Jolly, a shop steward in the CFMEU

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Socialist analysis of Northern Ireland conflict
Sunday, May 30 @ 19:09:18 CDT

Troubled Times, The National Question in Ireland
By Northern Ireland Socialist Party Secretary Peter Hadden
First published 1995 now available online for the first time
Best single piece on how Marxists take up the most complex question of all, the National Question


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UNITE STAND UP TO BORDERS BULLY
Thursday, May 27 @ 22:17:25 CDT

UNiTE will return to BORDERS BOOKS and rally in support of the workers. It appears as though Borders is on the back foot, yet this is no time to ease the pressure against this multi-national bully which has been getting away with apalling conditions and pay. Show your support and come to our rallies: FRIDAY : Lygon St, Carlton at 6pm SATURDAY: 500 Chapel St, South Yarra at 1pm Be a part of the victory against BORDERS the BULLY!

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