Worried about Howard’s new terror laws? Hear the accounts of two of the most prominent people targeted in the name of ’security’ — and join the campaign against the new legislation. Featuring:Mamdouh Habib, tortured and detained in Guantanamo Bay for three years without charge or trial. Plus Terry Hicks, father of David Hicks, who remains in Guantanamo Bay without charge or trial. (more…)

IN THE second article of a short series on the fight for a new mass workers’ party, PETER TAAFFE, general secretary of the Socialist Party (England & Wales), looks at the lessons workers can learn from how the Labour Party first came into existence a century ago.

See first article published previously on this site ‘Time for a new workers party’ (more…)

The anti-worker and anti-terror legislation tabled yesterday in Federal Parliament by the Howard Coalition government mark an important drift away from traditional bourgeois parliamentary democracy and towards a mild form of bourgeois bonepartism (see definition below). (more…)

The president of Sri Lanka for the past eleven years has been Chandrika Kumaratunga Bandaranaike. She was elected to this position in 1994 when the party she headed ? the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) - was the major force in the People?s Alliance (PA) government. The PA included one or two small parties like the ‘Communist’ Party and the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (once a mass Trotskyist party, now a rump).

By Clare Doyle, CWI (more…)

The Electrical Trades Union have taken the initiative of organising a great debate in Melbourne immediately after the mass rally on November 15th on the theme of ‘Who represents workers? - ALP? Greens? Independents? A New Party?’. (more…)

The Socialist Party is organising a free open air gig against the occupation of Iraq this Friday the 4th of November. Starting at 4pm, three live bands will be playing on the back of a truck outside the embassy at 553 St Kilda Rd. (more…)

Nationalise the Oil Companies!
The last few weeks have seen the first price rises as a direct result of increased petrol prices. Over the next few weeks almost all services and goods will rise in price. These basic goods and services affect working families already living on low wages.

Editorial from the November issue of ‘The Socialist’ (more…)