As socialists we argue that it is always the right of a woman to make decisions about her own fertility. This includes the right to choose to terminate her pregnancy and to have access to a safe accessible public health system.

By Samantha Ashby, SP Newcastle, NSW (from latest issue of The Socialist) (more…)

To ordinary working people in Iraq the situation seems to degenerate daily. While workers in Australia, the US and around the world have seen their governments go to amazing lengths to follow their corporate agenda.

By Erinn Sales, SP Melbourne City branch (article in latest issue of The Socialist) (more…)

Editorial from latest issue of The Socialist
The Howard and the Liberals fought the election on the scare tactic that Labor would raise interest rates. Well within a few months of the Liberal victory interest rates have risen and Australian families have to foot the bill of an average of $80 a month with a further rise predicted in the next six months or so. (more…)

First of a regular column in The Socialist from SP Councillor Stephen Jolly, Yarra City Council, Langridge Ward (Collingwood, Fitzroy, Abbotsford, Clifton Hill, Alphington and South Fairfield in Melbourne) (more…)

The happy idea of using a proletarian holiday celebration as a means to attain the eight-hour day was first born in Australia. (more…)

On Easter weekend about 400 people took part in the Socialism Days of the Sozialistische Alternative (SAV; German section of the CWI) in Berlin to discuss about the worldwide resistance against social cuts, war and capitalism.
By Nico Weinmann, Sozialistische Alternative, Germany (more…)

Last week political, business and media representatives of the ruling class met in Melbourne at the Sustaining Prosperity Conference, sponsored by Murdoch’s Australian newspaper. Members of the Socialist Party participated in a rally outside the event on the day it was addressed by Federal Education Minister, Brendan Nelson.

All politically conscious workers and youth should take an interest in the deliberations of this “National Conference” of our ruling class. (more…)

?I?m tired of this life. I just want to live quietly and well? was the comment of one pensioner taking part in the protests in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzia (Kyrgyzstan) last week.

Rob Jones, Sotsialisticheskoye Soprotivleniye, Moscow (more…)