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Sri Lanka: Victory for Health Workers!

The CWI-led union has won an important industrial battle in Sri Lanka

The bin tax battle in Dublin

Northern Ireland SP Secretary Peter Haddan gives a Marxist explanation of the current battle in Dublin.
Dublin West Socialist Party TD (MP), Joe Higgins and Dublin North Socialist Party councillor, Clare Daly have been sentenced to a month in prison and are currently serving their sentence in Dublin’s Mountjoy prison.

UNITE: New casual workers campaign kicking goals

An exciting new campaign in Melbourne (based on a similar one in New Zealand) is beginning the task of fighting the exploitation of casual workers. Unite Co-ordinator Nicki Jonas reports…

Trotsky on Unions

Trade Unions in the epoch of imperialist decay - an unfinished article by Trotsky found on his desk when he was murdered by a Stalinist agent in Mexico in August 1940. Goes to the heart of the role of the union bureaucracy in propping up capitalism. Click here

Sri Lanka: 15,000 health workers on mass picket in Colombo

The CWI-led health workers’ strike in Sri Lanka is now (21 September) in its 6th day.

5000 march in Dublin against jailings

Five thousand march in Dublin against the bin tax and demand the release of Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins and councillor Clare Daly - Plus report of solidarity action by SP at Irish Consul offices in Melbourne.
Thousands of demonstrators marched through Dublin yesterday in protest against the unfair bin tax and the jailing of Joe [...]

Why I joined the Socialist Party

Three new SP members explain why they joined.
By Bill Weller, Socialist Party Adelaide
Since a child I have always been interested in politics. My parents were and still are full-on Labor Party voters (even in their country of origin - the Netherlands) and they taught me well on subjects like working class, racism, homophobia, equality and [...]

Unite in New Zealand

Tim Bowron, CWI NZ, reports on Unite, the new union for casual/low paid workers in New Zealand and an inspiration for Unite in Australia. n New Zealand the trade union movement has suffered from major blows ater years of neo-liberalism and anti-union legislation.

The politics of the web

A socialist perspective on web page politics by Stephen Jolly.
Since April 2003 the Socialist Party has put more time into its web page. The site has three main assets:

Swedish Euro Referendum

Workers firmly reject bosses’ Europe