From Socialist Party Councillor Stephen Jolly
This March Council meeting discussed the crisis in Child Care, with over 500 families on the waiting list for a place in Yarra. The local community is beginning to organise a campaign to get more child care places in Yarra and SP has been part of this process, and I [...]

Memoirs of Malaysian communist guerrilla leader holds many lessons for today
Reviewed by Peter Taaffe, CWI
Published by Media Masters, Singapore, 2003. 527 pages

Today’s Melbourne Yarra Leader (7th March 2005) has a front page article entitled “City to clear drunks” that says: “Cr Jolly said Stanley St residents were also angry about litter being dumped by people gathering at the corner of Smith and Stanley streets.” These comments were supposedly taken from statements made by Cllr Jolly at [...]

In 2005, socialists celebrate the revolutionary events that swept Russia one hundred years ago. Russia, in 1905, saw mass political general strikes and the creation of the first soviets or elected councils of workers? deputies - the most democratic, fighting organisations in the life and death struggle against autocracy and against the exploiting classes.

What is Democratic Centralism? A speech by Samantha Ashby delivered at the SP Summer School February 2005.
For those who dont know what democratic centralism is it is the way that a revolutionary party organizes. The Socialist Party organizes and makes decisions using these methods.