SP Newsletter No.201
Catastrophe faces our planet because of climate change. A whole number of studies, reports and films have highlighted this fact. In February of last year, a report written by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) showed that temperatures could rise as much as 6.4 degrees Celsius by the end of this century. [...]

Thousands of people gathered around Australia on Wednesday morning to hear the new Federal Labor Government say ’sorry’ to Aboriginal people for the theft of thousands of Indigenous children. These children have been called the Stolen Generations.
By Socialist Party reporters Canberra, Sydney & Melbourne

By Marxist historian, Humphrey McQueen
In bringing Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel, Oil, to the screen as There will be blood, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson has been faithful to the author’s socialist intentions. The adaptation also resonates with the politics of today as the Neo-Cons kill to keep democracy safe for big oil.

The Socialist Party has produced this ‘What We Stand For’ pamphlet as the outline of the basic ideas and programme of genuine democratic socialism.

The controversial plan to deepen Melbourne’s shipping channels in Port Phillip Bay has outraged locals and environmentalists alike. Despite the opposition that exists the State and Federal Labor governments plan to go ahead.
By Kirk Leonard, Socialist Party Melbourne

Towards the end of World War One Germany was a country in ruin. Over one and a half million Germans had died. An economic blockade meant conditions for workers in the cities were deteriorating. Opposition to the war rapidly increased. BEN ROBINSON looks at what led to Hitler’s rise to power seventy five years ago. [...]

Regime faces its own ’Hurricane Katrina’
In the run up to the Lunar New Year on 7 February, which occasions the biggest human migration in the world, China experienced almost four weeks of extreme winter weather. In many parts of eastern and southern China this was the coldest winter since 1951.
By Vincent Kolo, CWI

SP Newsletter No.200
In a betrayal of an election promise the NSW Labor government led by Morris Iemma plans to privatise the state owned electricity services. The jobs of hundreds of power workers are under threat, and all electricity consumers face higher charges and reduced services.

The bad news is Rudd won!
The Rudd ALP government faces a new economic backdrop of international stock market instability and a looming US recession. Yet even before these events impact on the real Australian economy, the Rudd government pursues an agenda worthy of the Liberals – just at the Socialist Party predicted
Editorial comment from the [...]

The Socialist Party is the Australian section of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI). The CWI is an international socialist organisation with members in over 40 countries. A meeting of the International Executive Committee (IEC) of the CWI was held in Belgium in early December 2007.