Two articles on the current situation in Lebanon by Jenny Brooks, Socialist Party England & Wales

As Israeli missiles continued to bombard Lebanon, an immediate ceasefire was demanded by an emergency demonstration of 100,000 people in London on 5 August. (more…)

RMIT Student Union Representative Zaine Bulot talks to ‘The Socialist’ (monthly newspaper of the Socialist Party)
Zaine is a member of the Socialist Party and holds the elected position of Campus Co-ordinator on the RMIT City Campus in Melbourne. (more…)

‘The Socialist’ (monthly newspaper of the Socialist Party) talks to West Australian building worker and CFMEU member ‘Bill’ about the recent explosive industrial dispute at the city end of the Perth to Mandurah rail link. Bill worked on this job as a labourer for five months. (Bill’s real name has been withheld to protect him from future victimisation) (more…)

Amcor Flexibles in Melbourne’s northern suburb of Preston have targeted five workers for forced redundancies. Two of the five are shop stewards and all are members of the AMWU. The workers at the plant have been on strike since Tuesday August 1 and face possible fines under Howard’s new IR laws. The picket was made ‘illegal’ on Friday and since then the community has been maintaining the blockade. (more…)

Latin America is currently at the cutting edge of class struggle. A continental revolt is taking place from the Rio Grande in the north to Punto del Fuego in the south against governments and ruling elites which have relentlessly followed neo-liberal free-market policies for more than a decade. TONY SAUNOIS, a recent visitor to Brazil and Chile, reports. (more…)

The Coalition Welfare to Work program is a vicious attack on the most vulnerable of the working class and poor. The callous and outrageous nature of the attacks on parents, the disabled and the long term unemployed should make it clear to anyone who has not quiet understood it, that the bosses and their main political party, the Coalition are engaged in an all out assault on the working class . The expression class war is no longer just an agitational slogan.
By Gary Duffy Socialist Party, Sydney (more…)

The following leaflet (translated from Hebrew) against the Olmert government’s war plans, was issued by members of Maavak Sozialisti (Socialist Struggle) the CWI’s affiliated organisation in Israel.

‘The politicians and generals are dragging us into the quagmire’
By Maavak Sozialisti, CWI Israel (more…)