SP in Australia has warm relations with the PSM (Socialist Party Malaysia). This article from the PSM explains the latest in their legal battle to win registration as a legal party in Malaysia. (more…)

SP National Secretariat member Greg Bradshaw, who is in Hong Kong with the CWI’s campaign team taking part in the protests against the World Trade Organisation, told the mass circulation daily, The Standard, that “radical socialism is the most democratic system”.
Click here to go to The Standard article which includes a photo of Greg, or go below to just read the article text. (more…)

By Laurence Coates, in Hong Kong with the CWI’s anti-WTO campaign team.
According to some researchers in China, the effects of the ruling “communist” party’s reforms have in some cases been worse than the so-called “shock therapy” imposed by the IMF and World Bank on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in the 1990s. (more…)

The SP and ETU in Victoria have jointly organised a monster mass meeting for Thursday February 9th to offer put a working class alternative to the divide and rule racism of Howard and the far right. Here is the text of the ETU-produced leaflet for the event… (more…)

Tonight in Melbourne 3000 mainly young people rallied to oppose racism. The Socialist Party distributed hundreds of copies of their statement on racism as well as a leaflet advertising the February 9th meeting we have called on the issue with the Electrical Trades Union. (more…)

Socialist Party statement on the Sydney race clashes

What is the root cause of the racist explosions in Sydney? What is the socialist strategy to deal with it? (more…)

Australia?s largest city of Sydney has seen days of racist violence on its streets and beaches. Tensions on the North Cronulla Beach escalated earlier this month after a lifesaver was allegedly assaulted by an 18-year-old man of Lebanese descent.

By Anthony Main, Socialist Party National Organiser

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Comrades

SP in Melbourne will be active at Friday night’s rally against racism at Bourke St Mall, City Center from 5pm. We will also be handing out our statement on the issue and building support for the mass meeting at Brunswick Town Hall, (Sydney Rd/Dawson St, Brunswick) next week. Watch this space in a few hours for details on that meeting… (more…)

Previous posts on this web site explain the situation at Gold Peak. Please use the model letter below to get messages of support asap!! Letters should be send to: Gold Peak Industries (Holdings) Limited, Mr Victor Lo Chung Wing, 8/F Gold Peak Building, 30 Kwai Wing Road, Kwai Chung, Hong Kong, Fax: 2489 1879/24232660, gp@goldpeak.com. (more…)

SP comrades Stephen Jolly and Anthony Main attended the recent CWI International Executive Committee meeting in Belgium last week. This meeting was attended by 65 comrades from all continents and represented a significant step forward in the building of the CWI. The attached resolution ‘Thesis, World Economy, USA, China, Europe and Iraq’ was presented for discussion during the first session of the IEC. Following a full and enthusiastic discussion, and some amendments/additions proposed by comrades, this text was adopted unanimously. (more…)