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Lenin’s life rewritten
Thursday, July 28 @ 01:42:58 CDT

Lenin by Christopher Read, Reviewed by Peter Taaffe
Vladimir Lenin led the Russian revolution alongside Leon Trotsky in 1917. Their political understanding and party-building methods ensured the overthrow of capitalism and landlordism. Still today, they are the two historical figures most hated and feared by the capitalist ruling class, which tried to use the collapse of Stalinism in the late 1980s to bury socialist ideas. But socialism is now more relevant than ever before. Peter Taaffe reviews the latest biography of Lenin.

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Thanks for International Solidarity
Wednesday, July 27 @ 01:14:32 CDT

Dear members and supporters of the Socialist Party (CWI Australia),
We are thankful to all the trade unionists, activists, union branches, left and socialist activists and individuals, who sent protest and solidarity messages to support the 65000 telecom workers, during the 3 week long strike and 7 week long struggle against the privatisation of state owned telecom company.

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Pakistan: Successful TURCP meeting in Islamabad
Tuesday, July 26 @ 03:00:36 CDT

More than 120 trade union activists and leaders of a variety of different unions attended a meeting organised by Trade Union Rights Campaign in the Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited Colony in Islamabad on 13 July.
By Azam Janjuah and Shahid Zaheer, TURCP Islamabad

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Trotsky: The Political Profiles of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
Monday, July 25 @ 05:55:52 CDT

WE HAVE suffered two heavy losses at once which merge into one enormous bereavement. There have been struck down from our ranks two leaders whose names will be for ever entered in the great book of the proletarian revolution: Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. They have perished. They have been killed. They are no longer with us!
Written By Leon Trotsky, 1919.

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Lenin: Trotsky’s submission to the Encyclopædia Britannica
Monday, July 25 @ 05:46:51 CDT

Submitted and published by The Encyclopædia Britannica. Appearing on pages 911-914, Volume 13 (of 24) , Fourteenth Edition 1939. Taken from the Trotsky Internet Archive.

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SP Newsletter No.95
Sunday, July 24 @ 20:17:42 CDT

Includes regional activity, what’s on, news links and more....

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al-qa'ida: US imperialism's deadly legacy
Friday, July 22 @ 17:54:03 CDT

THE LONDON bombings have drawn attention to the Islamic terrorist training camps operating in the Afghanistan/Pakistan border areas. However, as the book review below shows, the Taliban and Osama bin Laden's al-Qa'ida network are the deadly legacies of US imperialism's Cold War strategy.
Book reveiw - Unholy Wars, Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism, by John K Cooley.

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Iraq: War and occupation bring growing misery
Friday, July 22 @ 17:46:39 CDT

The Iraqi Interior Ministry said this week that 8,175 Iraqis had been killed in the insurgency in the ten months between August 2004 and May 2005. At over 800 deaths a month this grisly figure exceeds the average monthly death toll of 500 since start of the occupation in May 2003.
Dave Carr Reports.

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How a socialist economy would work
Thursday, July 21 @ 06:40:35 CDT

Many workers and young people often ask SP, How would socialism work? What would need to change? How will we be better off? What do you mean by a socialist alternative? Below we have published an article by JARED WOOD outlining exactly how a socialist economy would work.

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Car workers fighting for their entitlements
Wednesday, July 20 @ 02:39:38 CDT

Thousands of Victorian car workers have been stood down after strike action at a major automotive parts supplier. The supplier, Icon Automotive, based at Huntingdale in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, makes plastic components for both Ford and Toyota.
By Anthony Main, AMWU Metals Shop Steward

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SP responds to Tony Blair's desperate slurs against the 'Militant Tendency'
Wednesday, July 20 @ 01:26:00 CDT

The following is taken from a press statement issued by the Socialist Party, England and Wales. (Formerly called the Militant Tendency)

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The London Bombings: A Marxist Analysis
Tuesday, July 19 @ 01:26:49 CDT

THE MAIN reaction of working people to the horror of the London bombings has been a mood of unity against terrorism. The strong sentiment shown by people to stand together must be the starting point for socialists.

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Review: Mao - The Unknown Story
Monday, July 18 @ 06:35:27 CDT

Peter Taaffe reviews Mao - The Unknown Story, By Jung Chang and Jon Halliday.
An exposé of the leader of the Red Army and the ruler of China for 27 years.

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Mass movement against Arroyo in Philippines
Friday, July 15 @ 04:53:14 CDT

By Stephen Jolly
Medium-sized rallies are being organised on an almost daily basis in the Philippines with the aim of driving the pro-US President Arroyo from power.

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1st SP Yarra Council Newsletter
Friday, July 15 @ 02:57:49 CDT

Below is the text from our first Langridge Ward newsletter (Yarra Council, Melbourne) It will be letterboxed to every home in the ward from next week. Email us if you can help with the letterboxing or help with a donation to the costs of this leaflet.
Socialist Party Councillor Stephen Jolly, Langridge Ward, City of Yarra. Langridge Ward covers Collingwood, Fitzroy, Abbotsford, Clifton Hill, Alphington and South Fairfield
Dear Resident,
Thanks for taking the time to read this newsletter. Since becoming the first socialist elected in Australia for many years, I and the Socialist Party (SP) have tried our best to represent the interests of residents, especially those who have missed out in the past such as young people and public housing tenants.

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Taiwan and the right to self determination
Friday, July 15 @ 02:13:27 CDT

The CWI received the following letter from a certain “Mikawasima/Asian Trotsky” disagreeing with the article ‘China and Taiwan: Reunification or confrontation’ (published on a CWI sister website www.chinaworker.org , 15 May 2005)
While the author’s name and political affiliation are not given (perhaps for reasons of security) we welcome this opportunity to discuss the issues raised and look again at the Marxist approach to the national question.

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Malcolm X - ''You Can't Have Capitalism Without Racism''
Friday, July 15 @ 01:59:50 CDT

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Malcolm X's assassination. Only 39 years old at the time of his murder, Malcolm X would have turned 80 this year.
Hank Gonzalez takes a look at his life.

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London bombings and Iraq
Friday, July 15 @ 01:44:16 CDT

There is a huge wellspring of sympathy and solidarity – shared by the Socialist Party – for the victims of the London tube and bus bombings. The unspeakable horrors that have been visited on the innocent have produced a deep sense of outrage in London, throughout the country, and even internationally.
Editorial from the latest issue of the Socialist, newspaper of the Socialist Party in England and Wales

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Workers Charter meeting in New Zealand
Friday, July 15 @ 01:15:45 CDT

Earlier this month 50 leftists in NZ (from Unite, SWO (ISO in NZ), ex-Alliance, individual leftists etc) met to establish a Workers Charter movement as a possible stepping stone towards a new workers' party in NZ.

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Class Struggle Erupts in Bolivia
Thursday, July 14 @ 03:09:39 CDT

Workers and Peasants Demand Nationalization of Oil Wealth
By Canyon Lalama and Alec Johnson, (Socialist Alternative, CWI - USA)

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Funding the struggle - We need your help
Wednesday, July 13 @ 02:37:43 CDT

Australian workers and youth are about to head into some of the biggest class battles this country has seen for many years.
Further attacks on workers rights, student unions and welfare will all be on the cards in the next few months.
The Socialist Party has a proud record of involving itself in struggle and we have pledged to continue this tradition in the next period.

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United States: Organized Labor at a Crossroads
Wednesday, July 13 @ 02:08:42 CDT

The US labor movement faces an historic crisis. Real wages are falling for most workers. Jobs, skilled or unskilled, are insecure. Millions are losing their health insurance, and corporations are hacking away at pensions. Only 7.9% of private-sector workers are in unions, the lowest level since 1901. In total, 12.5% of all workers are unionized, down from an historical high of 33% in 1954.
By Philip Locker, Socialist Alternative (CWI-US)

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SP Cllr Stephen Jolly's monthly newsletter, July '05
Tuesday, July 12 @ 19:18:44 CDT

Dear Comrades
As the first of SP's six-monthly Yarra Council newsletters are about to be letterboxed in every home in the Langridge Ward (Yarra City Council, Melbourne), this email newsletter will simply report on July's Council meeting. If you live in the Langridge Ward see your letterbox for the newsletter, if not check out this website soon.
If you can help letterbox your street or even more (or make a donation towards the production costs).

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The struggle against privatisation of Pakistan Telecoms
Monday, July 11 @ 03:28:27 CDT

The CWI replies to the distortions of the ‘Class Struggle’ group in Pakistan.
Readers of this website will be familiar with the recent telecommunications dispute that occured in Pakistan.
Below we publish a reply by members of the Socialist Movement (CWI in Pakistan) to material produced by some on the left in Pakistan on the question of the recent PTCL strike in the country.
By Azad Qadri and Khalid Bhatti, Socialist Movement Pakistan

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What are Howard's industrial relations changes?
Sunday, July 10 @ 02:57:33 CDT

Whilst Howard has been very light on details in regards to his industrial relations changes, based on current material available from both the government and the ACTU, the Socialist Party has produced a broadsheet available in the July issue of 'The Socialist' outlining in broadbrush terms the changes that that the Liberals will bring in now they control both houses of parliament.

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What we need to do to defeat Howard's attacks on workers
Sunday, July 10 @ 02:52:57 CDT

The following is SP's contribution to the debate on what sort of program the trade union movement needs to adopt to defeat Howard's attacks.
From SP's special industrial relations supplement available in the July issue of 'The Socialist'

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Britain: Why we oppose ID cards
Sunday, July 10 @ 02:14:59 CDT

One of the reasons why socialists are opposed to terrorism is that it opens the way for capitalist leaders to use these attacks to try and justify the introduction of further repressive legislation and attacks on democratic rights.
Blair will most likely use the London bombings to try and force through the introduction of national identity cards (ID cards) and a national register which currently do not exist in Britain.
From 'The Socialist' Paper of the Socialist Party in England and Wales.

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G8: Meeting to defend capitalism at Gleneagles
Saturday, July 09 @ 02:19:14 CDT

The heads of the world's richest countries met in Gleneagles, Scotland this week. They were not there to tackle world poverty, however, despite some of the hopes raised by their hypocritical rhetoric. They were there, of course, to tighten their stranglehold on the world economic system.
Manny Thain, Socialist Party, Edinburgh

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Clarie O'Shea - lessons for today
Saturday, July 09 @ 02:13:41 CDT

The union movement if mobilized could force the Liberals to withdraw their Industrial relations legislation. The alternative to that proposed by the ACTU is to set out to break the class laws by following the examples provided to us by Clarrie O’Shea and Frank Belan.
Samantha Ashby, Socialist Party Newcastle

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London Bombings: No to terrorism – No to war
Friday, July 08 @ 20:26:14 CDT

Four bombs, three at tube stations or on trains and one on a bus, shook London during the morning ‘rush hour’ of Thursday 7 July. The Socialist Party and the CWI condemn these bombings and those who carried them out.
For mass united working class action against imperialism and capitalism
CWI statement on the London bombings


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