SP warmly invites you to attend this great night at the Old Colonial Hotel, 127 Brunswick St, Fitzroy (opposite Atherton Gardens estate) on Saturday 17th December from 7pm. Tickets $10 each ($5 concession). Ring the SP office on 96399111 to book. It will be a great night with great food, drink, speeches and discussion after one year of a socialist on Council.

HIT BY corruption scandals and accused of failing to prevent genocidal wars, the United Nations (UN) has little to celebrate on its 60th anniversary.

PAULA MITCHELL explains the role and history of this deeply flawed institution. (more…)

Dear comrades and friends,

As you know, on 8 October, whole families, villages and towns were wiped out by the terrible earthquake which had its epicentre in Kashmir. The number of dead announced and confirmed by the government has now gone over 83,000. It could well reach 150,000 if those without shelter and the injured are not cared for immediately. Four million people are still homeless and so many of them are threatened with freezing to death, as the mountains are seized by Winter?s grip. Government agencies and the army have still not reached many of the most remote areas. (more…)

As part of their Politics 101 series, Dublin’s Anna Livia FM recently interviewed Mick Murphy, the Socialist Party councillor for the Tallaght ward. Mick outlined the history of the Socialist Party from its origins as the Militant Tendency in the Irish Labour Party to today. He also disccused the politics and policies of the party, and talked about his time in prison during the Bin Tax struggle and his role in uncovering the GAMA scandal.

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The situation is bleak for the survivors of the Asia earthquake, which destroyed six districts in Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP Pakistan) and four main districts in Kashmir (Pakistani Occupied Kashmir) on 8 October.

By Khalid Bhatti, National Organiser, Trade union Rights Campaign Pakistan (more…)

The following is a translation of a leaflet produced and distributed, last weekend, in France, by Gauche révolutionnaire (CWI France), in response to the current riots in Paris and across France. (more…)

Days of riots across France have profoundly shaken the French establishment and the political elite. An outpouring of unstoppable rage has crisscrossed France for eleven days in a row, in the course of which cars, police stations and banks were set on fire in poor districts in cities and towns.

By Karl Debbaut, CWI (more…)

Seven years in coalition with the Social Democratic Party (SPD) have revealed the German Greens as just another establishment party. Kim Opgenoorth, Sozialistische Alternative (CWI Germany), traces ?the bourgeoisification of the sunflower? (the Greens emblem). (more…)

Tomorrow week, Tuesday 15th November, is the date of the mass rally against Howard’s IR changes. The rally starts at 9am at Federation Square to hear speakers, then to march up Swanston St, into La Trobe St, to Exhibition Gardens. Then more speeches, a BBQ, and then off to the Comrades Bar.

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Click on the link below to see a video of the Rock Against War action outside the US Embassy on Friday 4th November 2005. Click here. About 100 people turned up outside the US Embassy in Melbourne on Friday night to protest against the continuing occupation of Iraq. (more…)