Trotsky’s key 1938 work shows rich application of the method of Marxism
On the 70th anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky, on 21 August 1940, Peter Taaffe examines one of the great revolutionary key texts, ’The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth Intenational’, also known as the Transitional Programme, and its [...]

Class struggles on the rise
Over 400 people attended the annual World School organised by the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) in Belgium between July 11 & 16. Kirk Leonard and Jacinta Chavulak attended from Australia. They joined delegations from across Europe, Russia, Central Asia, India, the US, Quebec and the Middle East.
The 2010 [...]

“It is as enraging as it is heartbreaking, and we will not relent until this leak is contained, until the waters and shores are cleaned up, and until the people unjustly victimised by this manmade disaster are made whole”. These words of US President Obama on the ongoing catastrophe that is the Deepwater Horizon BP [...]

By SP Councillor Stephen Jolly currently in South Africa
As the World Cup comes to an end the ruling ANC elite are crowing about one of the most successful World Cups. Attendance figures are the third highest after the World Cups held in the US in 1994 and Germany in 2006.
The transport system worked well and, [...]

July fast news
20,000 workers around Australia marched on June 10 to demand equal pay for women.
The Australian Services Union (ASU) organised marches in 17 locations around the country in the biggest national rally for womens’ wages since the 1970s.
3000 marched in Sydney and in Melbourne approximately 5000 workers marched through the CBD. Rallies [...]

By Stephen Jolly
On Saturday June 26 I travelled with two comrades from South Africa’s Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) to a mass meeting they had called in Rustenburg, about two hours north west of Johannesburg. The DSM is the Socialist Party’s sister party in South Africa.
The city of Rustenburg contains 400,000 people and is best known [...]

The election of a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government in Britain has many lessons for Australia. The British Conservatives and their junior partners, the Liberal Democrats, promise a future of savage attacks on public services, wages, pensions and benefits combined with tax increases for working and middle-class people.
Mervyn King, unelected governor of the Bank of England, [...]

Twelve workers have committed suicide so far this year at the factory that makes Apple iPads. Four others survived, gravely injured, and 20 were stopped from killing themselves by the company. All the dead were between 18 and 24 years old.
Foxconn - the city-sized factory in the Shenzhen free trade zone, southern China - employs [...]

SP Newsletter No.313
Israeli commandos used lethal force when they intercepted an aid convoy in international waters heading for the Gaza strip, where over one million Palestinians are trapped behind an Israeli government blockade.
The killing of nine aid volunteers by the commandos has provoked angry demonstrations in Turkey, where the flotilla of ships set out from, [...]

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following the fatal explosion on the BP leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig has exceeded the Exxon Valdez catastrophe of 1989, when eleven million gallons of crude oil devastated the pristine Alaskan coastline.
A White House energy official described the Gulf of Mexico spill as the worst environmental disaster [...]