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We can’t rely on Labor

SP Newsletter No.178
Time for a new workers’ party.
A vast majority of working people, especially young workers, don’t like Work Choices. They believe bosses today have too much power in the workplace. They face bullying by bosses, not bullying by unions.

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Capitalism’s culture of disrespect and inferiority
Media personality Don Imus, Hip-Hop artist 50 cent, comic/actor Michael Richards of Seinfeld fame and the resurgence of the gore and snuff films like the Quentin Tarantino presented Hostel I and II are at the center of an important debate about racism, sexism, violence and the use of language within [...]

World economy grows but workers lose out

The following article is taken from the centre page spread of the July issue of The Socialist newspaper.
IN 2006 the world economy grew by 5.4%. That annual rate is comparable with growth in the years of the post-war economic upswing of the 1960s. The ability to endure crises, such as the 1997 East Asian/Russian financial [...]