John Howard tells us at every opportunity that the only solution to global warming is nuclear energy. He says that this is the only clean option and the only way to cut carbon emissions. These statements echo those of other capitalist leaders around the world who are looking for a quick fix to the pressures they are now facing.
By Denise Dudley, Socialist Party Melbourne (more…)

The following article first appeared as a centre page spread in the May edition of ‘The Socialist’ newspaper. Socialist Party councillor Stephen Jolly looks at the past, present and future of public housing in Australia. (more…)

The following is the transcript of ABC’s Stateline program broadcast on 04/05/2007 it covers some of the issues at the Fitzroy public housing estate in Melbourne. The Socialist Party has done a lot of work on this estate, especially since getting a councillor elected in Yarra in 2004. The program included quotes from our councillor Stephen Jolly. (more…)

Hundreds of people languishing on trolleys in A&E departments, tens of thousands on hospital waiting lists, 415,000 Euro for an average house in Dublin, commuters wasting hundreds of hours a year stuck in traffic jams, the second highest class sizes in the EU. These are just some of the problems that working-class people in southern Ireland have to contend with and are the backdrop to the general election on 24 May.
By Stephen Boyd, Socialist Party Dublin (more…)

SP Newsletter No.170
Protesters were lucky to escape with their lives this morning as two trucks driven by an aggressive employer rammed a community protest in the Melbourne suburb of Kilsyth. In full view of the police, a senior manger of the Elliott Group drove a semi trailer through the crowd. (more…)

SP has just received news that all of the comrades from the Democratic Socialist Movement as well as the other Nigerian activists who had been detained by the State Security Service (SSS) have now been released. (more…)

Dagga Tolar and other members of the Socialist Party’s sister organisation in Nigeria (the Democratic Socialist Movement) have been detained by the State security service.
The Nigerian government, fearing mass protests against its blatant rigging of the April state and national elections, attempted to clamp down on any sign of active opposition at the Mayday rallies held across the country. Activists were arrested and opposition political material confiscated from them by security forces. (more…)

Following the arrest of two men in Melbourne on terror related charges the Socialist Party issued the following press statement.
Commenting on the arrest of two men yesterday for allegedly fundraising for the Tamil Tigers, Socialist Party National Organiser Anthony Main said “We are extremely concerned that people are being arrested for fundraising for political parties in another country. (more…)

Build a socialist alternative to war, poverty and exploitation
The Socialist Party (SP) and the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) send warm May Day greetings to the workers, youth and oppressed of the world. May Day stands for international solidarity, struggle and socialism. Socialists, trade unionists, anti-capitalists, student and environmental activists, anti-war and human rights campaigners, women’s rights fighters – all these, and many more, will make common cause on 1 May, resisting the bosses’ attacks and struggling for a better world. (more…)