Recently, Peter Taaffe and Laurence Coates from the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) wrote replies to Mikawasima Tookjo, who?s recent article, “Is Taiwan a nation?” raised a number of key issues on the cause of nationality and the approach of socialists today. In doing so, the correspondent took issue with the position of Chinaworker [...]

Back page article from September issue of The Socialist.
Today both in Australia and around the world the bosses’ profits are rising whilst the living conditions and wages of ordinary people are being attacked. We live in a system where 500 multinational companies control 70% of the world?s production. The richest 356 people enjoy a [...]

Front page article from September issue of The Socialist.
John Howard?s claim that his changes to the industrial relations system will mean a better deal for workers is just not being bought by the public. Despite the fact Howard has been attempting to keep workers in the dark about the detail of the changes most [...]

By Greg Bradshaw, Socialist Party Melbourne
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo won the country’s presidential election last year, and her term officially ends in 2010. But a mass movement is stirring below that is set to sweep her aside; like 4 years ago against the corrupt president Joseph Estrada, and the ‘peoples power revolution’ of 15 years prior against [...]

Many supporters have asked for a definition of neo-liberalism. We have added this definition below to our glossary. Neo-liberalism is a set of economic policies that have become widespread during the last 25 years or so.

Last month Yarra Council voted unanimously in favour of a Socialist Party-inspired motion slamming Howard’s Industrial Relations attacks and pledged to stick to collective agreements with its 500-strong workforce. Similar motions have been carried at some neighbouring Councils.

The Trade Union Rights Campaign and Socialist Movement in Karachi organised a seminar in PMA House. It was organised in connection with the 25th anniversary of the death of revolutionary leader and martyr Nazir Abbassi, who was martyred by state forces during the vicious military dictatorship of Zia in 1980. The seminar was presided over [...]

On Wednesday August 10th 2005, Gate Gourmet sacked 800 workers employed at Heathrow Airport (London). Fellow workers reporting for duty on Thursday 11th August 2005 were faced with the ultimatum of signing a new contract which would slash pay and conditions or face the sack. Catering assistants are paid just £12,000 a year while drivers [...]

The Israeli government has now demolished all the Jewish settlements in the Gaza strip, with four more in the West Bank to follow. This is the first time that Israel has removed settlements in Palestinian territory seized in the 1967 war.
By Jenny Brooks, Socialist Party, England and Wales

On 4 August, the Trade Union Rights Campaign of Kashmir organised the first trade union conference in the history of Pakistani-occupied Kashmir (POK). Held at the Sardah View Hotel in Kotli, it gathered together trade union leaders, political workers and leaders from all the districts of Kashmir and many cities of Pakistan.
By Malik Shakoor