SP Newsletter No.269
As the economic downturn gets worse, thousands of workers are losing their jobs or being forced to cut their hours. Big business is trying to make ordinary people pay for the crisis through unemployment and pay cuts. But one of the best ways to fight unemployment is to fight for shorter hours with no loss of pay.

Continue reading Share out the work – Fight for a 35 hour week!

In June 2003, the then Gallop State Labor Government in Western Australia passed an Act of Parliament to evict the Aboriginal people living in their homes at the Swan Valley Nyungah Community in Lockeridge Perth.

By Neil Gray, Socialist Party Perth

Continue reading Swan Valley Nyungah community demands camp back

SP Newsletter No.268
The Melbourne Branch of the Socialist Party will be holding a day school on Saturday July 4. The school will be a good introduction to the basic ideas of Marxism and will be of interest to new members or to people who are keen to find out more about the politics of SP.

Continue reading SP Day School: Introduction to Marxism

Splits in ruling Islamist-capitalist class deepened
The mobilisations of more than one million people on the streets of Tehran alongside open splits in the ruling Islamist-capitalist class marks a revolutionary crisis in Iran. People have lost their fear.

By Per-Åke Westerlund, CWI Sweden

Continue reading Iran: Which way forward for the new revolution?

This pamphlet by James Connolly has introduced millions of workers to the basic ideas of socialism. We are reprinting it so that workers and young people today can continue to read it and learn from its arguments. It is also available from in hard copy for only $2 from the SP National Office.

Continue reading Workshop Talks: Socialism Made Easy

SP Newsletter No.267
June 17 saw over 250,000 people take to the streets in more than 80 cities across Germany. They were protesting for a better education system and their main demands were for smaller classes, 100,000 more teachers and the abolishment of tuition fees.

Continue reading Germany: Mass protests demand better education

The Socialist Party has launched an exciting new campaign to turn the Fitzroy Town Hall into a centre for the arts, music and culture in the City of Yarra (Melbourne).

By Stephen Jolly, Socialist Party Councillor City of Yarra

Continue reading Bring the arts back to Yarra

New phase of struggle opens up
Mass protests and demonstration have erupted in Iran in protest at the apparent rigging of the Presidential elections by the Mahmoud Ahmedinejad regime. According to reports, the largest anti-government demonstration of over one million people took place in the capital Tehran.

By Tony Saunois, CWI

Continue reading Iran: Mass protests erupt

The current economic crisis has fuelled waves of anger around the world. Prime targets are the top bankers and stock market dealers who epitomise the rampant, ultra-free market policies of the last 20 years. Backed by their political accomplices, they gorged themselves while workers’ conditions worsened, and finance capital drove down living standards in the neo-colonial countries. LYNN WALSH, editor of Socialism Today, argues that behind the obscene greed lie more fundamental reasons for today’s global turmoil.

Continue reading Economic crisis: Who’s to blame?

Before joining the Socialist Party I had some dealings with a few other left groups in Melbourne. While they were well meaning, I was not impressed by their rhetoric and inaction.

By Corey Snoek, Socialist Party Melbourne

Continue reading Why I joined the Socialist Party