Our Vision for Victoria
- THE RIGHT to a child care place; the right to a public hospital bed; the right to free public transport.
- PROTECTION from unchecked high rise development like Salta and Banco.
- SECURITY from Howard’s IR laws.
- JUSTICE for public housing tenants.
Vote 1 Stephen Jolly, Socialist Party Candidate for the Seat of Richmond

Yesterday a prominent Tamil MP in Sri Lanka, Nadarajah Raviraj, was killed and one of his four bodyguards was also killed in a shooting. The attack took place in an area very close to the headquarters of our sister party in Sri Lanka, the United Socialist Party (CWI).

Reactionary Jewish and Arab groups unite in homophobic campaign
By Shahar Benhar, Maavak Sotzialisti, CWI Israel
A Gay Pride demo will be held in Jerusalem, on 10 November, against a background of vicious incitement and homophobic propaganda by reactionary Jewish and Arab organisations. This follows a similar campaign running up to the June 2005 Gay Pride demo, [...]

Even though most trade union leaders are trying to turn the campaign against Howard’s IR laws into an election campaign for Australia’s second biggest bosses party (the ALP) we must mobilise for a big turn out on November 30.

A rally has been called in Melbourne to increase pressure on the Bracks’ government over the issue of public transport. The rally has been organised by the ‘Community Campaign for Public Transport’ of which the Socialist Party helped initiate. The details of the rally are: 5pm Thursday 9th November 2006 at the State Library, corner [...]

Almost 150 people attended the Richmond Town Hall last night to hear the candidates for the state seat of Richmond debate a wide range of issues in the lead up to the Victorian Election on November 25.
By Socialist Party reporters, Melbourne

Australia’s working people face the toughest attack since our forebears put an end to convictism. The latest bout of IR laws is not intended to contain unions. Nor is the aim to smash just one group of militants. The objective is to put an end to all forms of collective bargaining. Unions might be tolerated [...]