SP Newsletter No.296
Recent opinion polls have shown that support for an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) remains at just over 70%, despite 70% of respondents admitting they “don’t know enough” about Rudd’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
This coincides with 76% of Australians being ‘concerned’ about climate change, with over half the population seeing it as a [...]

SP Newsletter No.295
With the worst economic crisis in 80 years rocking the world many workers and young people are starting to question the capitalist system. Capitalism, which dominates the globe, is a system that allows a tiny minority of bosses to own and control the vast amounts of wealth that is produced by billions of [...]

SP Newsletter No.294
When clothing manufacturer Pacific Brands announced in February last year that it would be moving offshore and sacking 1850 workers, people were clearly angry. But when it came out soon after that Pacific Brands chief executive Sue Morphet would have her pay increased from $685,775 to $1.8 million that anger turned into outrage. [...]

SP Newsletter No.293
The Rudd Government, who boast about their concern for human rights, have ignored the plight of over 250 Sri Lankan Tamil-speaking refugees held in a small boat near Merak, Indonesia.

SP Newsletter No.292
International students in Australia have a reason to be concerned: aside from the ongoing violence and the unscrupulous employment practices that many have been subject to, it has recently emerged that 41 private education institutes across Victoria will be audited due to widespread scams taking place in the sector.

SP Newsletter No.288
The October Yarra Council meeting was the best attended and most dramatic for years. The vast bulk of the residents who turned up were there to discuss the proposed local law to ban public drinking in Yarra.

Socialist Party statement
In recent weeks we have seen an increase in the number of Sri Lankan Tamils seeking asylum in Australia. Most of these people have been travelling by boat via Indonesia and Malaysia. This has put the refugee issue back on the main stage for the first time since the 2004 Federal election.

SP Newsletter No.287
For the past few months the capitalist press has bombarded us with stories about alcohol-fuelled street violence in Australia’s major cities. Socialists accept that crime and late night anti-social behaviour is a problem in many areas. We wholeheartedly understand people’s concerns.

SP Newsletter No.286
Socialist Party members from Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia and Queensland met in Melbourne on October 2 & 3 for the 2009 Socialist Party National Conference.

The general crisis of world capitalism
The main issue facing the working class in Australia and across the world is the economic crisis. Most economists now agree that we have entered a period that is worse than anything seen since the ‘Great Depression’ of the 1930s. The only point of argument is how deep this crisis [...]