A reply to the Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP), Australia
By Peter Taaffe, CWI
The following article is a reply, by Peter Taaffe, from the Committee for a Workers? International (CWI), to an article by John Percy, National Secretary of the Australian Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP - formerly the Democratic Socialist Party), carried in the DSP?s [...]

By Lorraine Lockhart, Socialist Party Melbourne
The aim of this document is to help new comrades understand how the Socialist Party conducts its meetings. Also how a meeting can be conducted to be more inclusive, democratic, organised and most importantly, effective in its decision making.

IN A sensational victory for Chinese workers and international campaigners, ten young workers (the oldest is 23 years old) in Guangdong province, jailed for protesting against pay cuts and medieval conditions at shoe factories owned by Stella International, were freed on New Year?s Eve.
By Laurence Coates

Last night’s Council’s-run public meeting on the Banco development was a great success for the community. 200+ locals piled into Collingwood Town Hall past an excellent Socialist Party stall and banner, and reading the SP leaflet on the issue at hand.

By Manny Thain, Socialist Party
Two years ago, the US regime promised a short war to ‘liberate’ Iraq - ‘operation shock and awe’.
It expected a rapturous welcome by cheering Iraqi crowds. A puppet regime would be installed, US control of Iraq’s oil consolidated, and a new platform to pacify the Middle East.

A meeting of child care users and advocates met today, Sunday 20th March, in North Fitzroy to discuss the crisis. There are 500 families without places in Yarra at the moment and we want Council to work hard to fix the problem, which can’t get around the question of spending money on the issue. A [...]

By Anthony Main, AMWU shop steward
After years of demonising migrants John Howard is now so worried about Australia running out of workers that he now wants to embark on an international recruitment drive.The coalition wants 20,000 additional skilled workers to be allowed into the country next financial year, taking the total skilled migrant intake to [...]

From the Socialist Party in Northern Ireland
The Northern Bank robbery in Belfast, Robert McCartney’s killing and the attempt to cover it up, and then the allegations about the multi-million pound criminal empire run by the IRA have put the leadership of the republican movement in Ireland under intense pressure.

Text of SP leaflet for upcoming mass workers’ meeting in Melbourne, Wednesday 23rd March
In the name of ‘being realistic’ Greg Combet and his mates at the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) are preparing to sell our hard earned conditions back to the bosses for a song. Our working lives as we know them are [...]

By Robert Bechert, CWI
The mid-February assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, has plunged Lebanon into crisis. It led to hundreds of thousands protesting on the streets of Beirut and, on 8 March, possibly up to a million demonstrating against US, Israeli, and French interference in Lebanon.