CWI member quoted in British newspaper, The Independent.
The Independent, a London-based newspaper, ran a story on the opening day of the World Social Forum, in which Andre Ferrari, a leading member of Socialismo Revolucionario, the Brazilian section of the CWI, is quoted. This shows how the question of Lula and his governments adoption of neo-liberal policies after coming to power is provoking interest internationally. (more…)

Demonstration of well over 100,000 people on first day.
Well over 100,000 people turned out on a scorching afternoon in Porto Alegre, Brazil, to participate in a demonstration that marked the opening of the fifth World Social Forum.
By Michael OBrien, Socialist Party, CWI Ireland (more…)

CWI members campaign for socialism in Porte Allegre
Over 70 members and sympathisers of the committee for a workers’ international will be making sure that the ideas of socialism are brought to the tens of thousands who will attend the meetings and demonstrations of the World Social Forum (WSF), from 26 - 31 January, in Porte Allegre.
By Kevin Simpson in Sao Paulo, Brazil (more…)

With the help of the thousands of donations that have been made in the last four weeks to the Campaign Sri Lanka, our comrades in the country second worst hit in the region have picked themselves up and started out on the campaigning road once more. Australian socialists have not let side down…

Report of the socialist relief effort followed by CWI overview of the crisis one month on: “tsunami disaster: A month later, poverty still kills in Aceh and Sri Lanka” by Clare Doyle (more…)

Last Sunday, 23rd January, the Socialist Party National Committee met to discuss the political situation in Australia and plans for building the party in 2005. Here is a summary of the main points raised in the first discussion. (more…)

Teamster Rebellion: 70th anniversary of Labor’s historic victory in Minneapolis, USA.
Today, even the most militant sections of organised trade unionism (eg Workers First in the AMWU and the Victorian branch of the CFMEU) have a generally syndicalist approach, concentrating on bread and butter issues and leaving politics to the capitalists in the ALP. The approach of then healthy, Trotskyist-US Socialist Workers’ Party in the 1930s to trade union work was in marked contrast, as you will see when you read this excellent article by Canyon Lalama… (more…)

Report of yesterday’s anti-fascist mobilisation in Newcastle, NSW.
On Saturday January 22th a successful demonstration was held in solidarity with the Sudanese community against the Patriotic Youth League, which had been trying to whip up hatred of them in the working class suburb of Islington. At its height 350 people, with probably 500 people in total attending this event. (more…)

Text of SP leaflet
A small neo-nazi group is trying to stir up race hatred in Newcastle. At a time when the vast majority of Novocastrians have demonstrated their genuine compassion for all the victims of the Tsunami, a tiny group of racists are trying to whip up hatred against the Sudanese community. (more…)

By Tony Saunois, Secretary of the CWI
The bloody war in Iraq led by US imperialism worsens every day as the death toll mounts and the country plunges deeper into civil war and ethnic and religious clashes. Only a few days after the coronation of Bush for a second term elections are set to take place on January 30th. (more…)

On Tuesday the 18th January the Melbourne City branch of the Socialist Party hosted a very successful public meeting. The topic was The tsunarmi Disaster - A Socialist perspective. The meeting heard a first-hand report from Comrade Siri (General Secretary of the United Socialist Party - Sri Lanka), followed by an in depth analysis of the disaster by comrade Sampath Perrera (Sri Lankan socialist living in Melbourne and member of SP). (more…)