Thursday morning, October 9, saw 10 local residents jailed for two weeks (one woman with a small child for one week because she has to breastfeed her baby) for their part in the ongoing protests against the imposition of a new charge for collecting rubbish, the bin tax. (more…)

Irish Times columnist misses Joe Higgins and ridicules main parties. The following humorous article was published in the Irish Times newspaper today. (more…)

The SP has been campaigning on this issue, raising 7000 signatures on petitions, working with others on pro-Medicare rallies, and getting out the propaganda against the cuts.
However, the only organisations with the strength to stop the Federal government are the trade unions. (more…)

National Teachers Strike…Adelaide bus workers…TWU/Qantas dispute…Sutton charged by rank and filer…CFMEU preparing for a big fight… (more…)

Jacquiline Depru, ACTU delegate and SP member (name changed to stop victimisation) reports on a Congress opened by a police band and addressed by the Qantas boss on same day she announced 25% of her staff to be sacked… (more…)

A feature spread compiled by Anthony Main, Victorian AMWU (Metals Division), personal capacity

Many young people today find it hard to see the point in joining a trade union. Unions often seem outdated and out of touch. The following is the Socialist Party?s contributions to this debate, an attempt to simplify and explain why we think it is still worth being a trade unionist in 2003.

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