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 [...]

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.

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.

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

SP Newsletter No.266
Radical action on climate change was central to Labor’s 2007 election campaign. Yet the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) - which includes a dismal target of 5 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 - is a joke.

SP Newsletter No.265
18 months since the heady days of the election victory and mired in a recession, the Rudd Labor government has lost its gloss.

SP Newsletter No.264
The Socialist Party will be holding a public meeting in Melbourne on Wednesday June 3 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Speaking on the night will be Stephen Jolly who witnessed the events first hand. We will also be relaunching our pamphlet ‘Eyewitness in China’.

SP Newsletter No.263
The document describes in detail the correct way to waterboard a prisoner: the interrogator lays him down at a 15 degree angle, smothers his face with a wet cloth, and pours water continually onto the cloth, making it impossible to breathe.

SP Newsletter No.262
Hundreds of Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka were killed last weekend as a result of heavy artillery shelling in the war zone - a few square kilometres of coastal strip containing around 100,000 Tamil civilians and LTTE guerrillas.

Two new members of the Socialist Party, Jacinta Chavulak and Sue Fuller, explain why they decided to join the party and get involved in politics.