In a moment of exaltation when US troops conquered Baghdad on April 10 last year, the US Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, proclaimed that “Saddam Hussein is now taking his rightful place alongside Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Ceausescu in the pantheon of failed, brutal dictators”. Eighty years after the death of Lenin, the ruling classes globally still link him to the most horrific dictators.

PER Ã…KE WESTERLUND looks at the reasons behind these decades of slander.
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By Antony Alder, Socialist Party Melbourne
I first came in contact with the Socialist Party as a hospitality worker wanting to find out about and participate in the UNITE campaign. I later joined the Socialist Party because I found they had workable non-utopian solutions to global and grass roots issues that confront us all. (more…)

By Dave O’Brien, CFMEU activist and Socialist Party Melbourne
With the early rays of summer sun we observed and felt the passing of our comrade Johnny Loh. John was a man whose legacy speaks volumes more than most. A socialist, trade unionist, father, husband and lover, his contributions spanned over 30 years of Australia,s most important period of modern history in the service of the international working class. (more…)

Goodbye Lenin is a political love story set in East Germany (GDR) around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
A working class single mother, Christiane, and her 20-year old son, Alexander, live in a tiny East Berlin flat in the last days of Stalinism. (more…)

By Greg Bradshaw, Socialist Party Melbourne.
In 1917 the masses of Russia rose up against their oppressors and for the first time in history (apart from the ill-fated Paris Commune) an alternative to capitalism was established: democratic socialism. (more…)

By Sampath Perrera, Socialist Party Melbourne

Last November Sri Lanka President Chandrika Kumaratunga imposed a state of emergency while her rival, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, was overseas. (more…)

By Anthony Main, Socialist Party Melbourne

The Committee for a Workers International (CWI) is the international organisation to which the Socialist Party (SP) is affiliated. The CWI is organised in over 40 countries across the world and aims to unite the working class and oppressed peoples against global capitalism, and to fight for a socialist world. (more…)

By Gary Duffy, Socialist Party Sydney

The situation for the US and other coalition of the willing forces in Iraq is still fraught with danger. Bush and Co. may have had a brief psychological boost with the capture of Saddam Hussein but this will not change the fundamental situation in Iraq.
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By Samantha Ashby, Socialist Party Newcastle

As a new resident of Newcastle, NSW it is hard to imagine a stranger idea than closing the railway access into the city and business center.

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