On Wednesday March 26 about fifty mainly young people attended a debate between the Socialist Party (SP) and Socialist Alternative (SA) in the New Council Chambers at Trades Hall in Melbourne. The topic of the debate was ‘strategies for building revolutionary organizations’.
By Socialist Party reporters Melbourne

SP Newsletter No.207
The NSW state Labor government’s plan to sell off public electricity is theft on a grand scale. While the Iemma government is going ahead with the plan, opposition from the trade unions and the general public is growing. The Socialist Party stands totally opposed to this and all other privatisations.

The European Bureau of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) will be meeting in early April. The theses below, prepared by Peter Taaffe, will be under discussion at that meeting.

“This is not a war on terror, but a war to oppress and terrorise the working class around the world”. Khalid Bhatti introduced the Friday night opening session of Socialism 2008 held in Melbourne on March 14 & 15 with these words.
By Socialist Party reporters Melbourne

We can’t pay the price - organise to fightback!
America is in recession and news of deepening financial disaster comes thick and fast. Now, Bear Stearns, America’s fifth largest investment bank has suddenly collapsed, triggering an emergency takeover of it by JPMorgan.
By Judy Beishon, Socialist Party

SP Newsletter No.206
Next Wednesday, March 26, a debate will be held in Melbourne on ‘strategies for building revolutionary organisations’. The debate will be between Anthony Main from the Socialist Party and Mick Armstrong from Socialist Alternative.

Thousands of paramilitary police and soldiers have been deployed in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, after the most serious protests against Chinese rule for nearly 20 years.
By Vincent Kolo, CWI Hong Kong

…victims of global capitalism
One in six of the world’s population (854 million) do not have enough food to eat. Every year, despite the recent boom in the world economy, another four million are added to this total. Now the developing crisis in the world economy, combined with rising food prices, spells disaster for workers and [...]

Public meeting in Melbourne this week!
In 2003 Bush’s top commanders met to discuss the invasion and occupation of Iraq. They concluded then it would take four years to “normalise” the country. Yet from this March, US, British and Australian troops will have been in Iraq for five years with no end in sight to the [...]

Five long, bloody years of war and occupation, led by US imperialism, has left Iraq as a dangerous, violent and divided society, despite promises of stability and democracy. NIALL MULHOLLAND looks at the gruesome results of Western ‘intervention’.