The massive demo on 4 December 2005 for universal suffrage has shaken the government of Donald Tsang and his puppetmasters in the central government. By CWI reporters Laurence Coates and Andy Tamm. (more…)

Left-wing academic James Doughney has just published this excellent article on the pokies industry in Victoria. He argues that harm is not an unfortunate side effect of the pokies industry, but core business.
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It is one year since the killer tsunami wave swept across the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004. As the anniversary was approaching, the world?s media carried heart-rending reminders of the tragedy itself and looked at the situation one year on in the countries and communities worst affected. But none of them pointed to how the mass carnage that results from ?natural? disasters in poverty-stricken countries can be avoided nor how the chaos and corruption that paralyses relief operations can be prevented. What did we say on this web-site one year ago and how have things worked out?
By Clare Doyle, CWI (more…)

Article from today’s Melbourne Herald-Sun (largest selling newspaper in Victoria) on the upcoming mass meeting against racism organised by SP and the ETU and others with the aim of a leftwing, working class alternative to racism and class disunity. (Thursday February 9th, 7pm, Brunswick Town Hall - see previous post below for further details including magnificent list of speakers).

Click here to read the Herald-Sun article. (more…)

A solidarity BBQ is planned for Thursday, December 29th, 2005 at 1.30pm onwards at the CEPU office, 67 Cromwell Street, Collingwood, Melbourne. Australia Post do it again! Peter Vining, the shop steward at Fitzroy Delivery Centre was sacked unfairly on the 16th December. (more…)

With 51.1% of the vote, Evo Morales, coca farmers? leader and head of the MAS (Movement Towards Socialism) has decisively won the December 18 presidential elections and is set to become Bolivia?s first indigenous president. These elections were yet another sign of the radicalisation and move to the left of the masses of Latin America and represent just the first one of eleven important electoral contests which will take place in different countries across the continent over the next year.


By Tanja Niemeier, CWI

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The Transit Workers Union faces fines of $1 million a day, an indication of the fact that the New York city bosses want to crush working class opposition to their big business policies. Below is the latest a leaflet produced by the ?Socialist Alternative? (CWI) members in New York. This strike has the potential to act as a beacon for other struggles of US workers and youth who have seen their living standards plummet while the fat cats get richer by the minute.

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The dispute of AMWU members at Colrain Wholesale in Derrimut, Melbourne has ended in victory for the workers! Well done to the picketers, and their supporters (including SP members). Read below a report on the victory from the Union Solidarity web site… (more…)

“Hong Kong will not go down as the city where the Doha Round died,” exclaimed the South China Morning Post (SCMP) with a sigh of relief. Perhaps not, but it wasn’t the place where the round woke out of its coma either.
By Laurence Coates, with the CWI’s anti-WTO campaign team in Hong Kong. (more…)

Interview with Korean anti-WTO protester by Erik Dalen, with the CWI’s anti-WTO campaign team in Hong Kong.
The Korean farmers and workers have made a lasting impression on the population of Hong Kong during the anti-WTO protests of the last week, teaching them new methods of struggle. This is the real reason why Hong Kong’s unelected government didn’t want the Koreans to come. (more…)