After the recent strike at the Boeing plant in Port Melbourne, the Australian Workplace Ombudsman has issued Union Solidarity Coordinator Dave Kerin with a “Notice to produce documents”. If he fails to provide this information Dave could face up to six months in jail.

On Friday May 2 activists targeted BHP Billiton’s headquarters in the Melbourne CDB. They were there to highlight the fact that it is big business companies like BHP who are to blame for the problems of global warming. More actions have been planned for the future with the next one being at 4pm on Friday [...]

The Sydney May Day rally got off to a good start with a large crowd gathering even before the official start time of 9.30am. It is estimated that almost 2000 people took part in the rally outside the venue of the New South Wales Labor Party conference on Saturday May 3.
By SP reporters Sydney & [...]

Socialist Party member, Dave Nellist, has re-won his council seat in Coventry with an increased majority. Dave’s result was an exception to the general trend across the country where Labour suffered big losses.
By Hannah Sell, Deputy Secretary Socialist Party England & Wales

The Sri Lankan government is engaged in a war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the north of the country. This year marks its 25th anniversary. This war has cost more than 70,000 lives and billions of rupees of the country’s national wealth.
By Srinath Perera, United Socialist Party, Sri Lanka

Reporters from our sister website chinaworker.info spoke to member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, ‘Long Hair’ Leung Kwok-hung. Today the Olympic torch will be paraded through Hong Kong accompanied by 3,000 police, according to Chief superintendent David Ng Ka-sing.

SP Newsletter No.212
Protest against the climate criminals! Meet at BHP Billiton HQ at 4pm this Friday May 2nd, 180 Lonsdale St City. Say NO to big business destroying the planet for profit. For more information contact 0396399111.

For a socialist alternative to capitalist crisis.
The Socialist Party (SP) and the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) sends warm socialist greetings to workers and youth across the world on May Day, International Workers’ Day, 2008.