Best result for a socialist in more than 50 years!
Australia’s only socialist councillor Stephen Jolly has been re-elected in the City of Yarra. Preliminary results are showing that Socialist Party member Stephen Jolly has in fact beat the Labor Party candidate in their traditional heartland of inner city Melbourne. (more…)

SP Newsletter No.241
On November 29 all Victorian Councils go to the polls. In the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne, the Socialist Party (SP) is standing three candidates and is going all out to get our sitting councillor re-elected in the Langridge Ward. Denise Dudley is our candidate in the Melba Ward and Anthony Main in the Nicholls Ward. (more…)

The first black minority president won a decisive majority of the popular vote. At the same time, the Democrats now have a commanding majority in Congress. This was a massive vote for change, an angry rejection of the Bush regime. Opposition to the war in Iraq merged with even stronger rejection of disastrous, ultra-free-market policies.
Editorial, Socialism Today (more…)

Hundreds of taxi drivers in the tourist resort of Sanya, in Hainan province, went on strike for four days last week.
By chinaworker.info reporters (more…)

Renewed fighting has broken out around the city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between armed forces led by the rebel general Laurent Nkunda and those of the Congolese president Joseph Kabila, deepening the region’s humanitarian crisis. (more…)

VOTE 1 Socialist Party in Yarra
All Victorian Councils will go to the polls on November 29. The Socialist Party is running a strong campaign in the City of Yarra. Read the text of our final leaflet below. (more…)

SP Newsletter No.240
Last weekend, the world’s political leaders gathered at the G20 summit in Washington - hosted by the soon to depart US president George Bush - in a bid to rescue the world economy from financial instability and deepening recession. (more…)

Although Steve McQueen’s film Hunger is often without spoken word the story of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) hunger strikers, the back drop of ‘the Troubles’ in Northern Ireland is loud and clear.
By Denise Dudley, Socialist Party (more…)

Letter to Green Left Weekly editors
Dear GLW editors,
In last weeks ‘Our Common Cause’ column Karl Miller wrote a letter to the ACT Greens congratulating them on behalf of the Socialist Alliance for recently winning four seats in the ACT Legislative Assembly. (more…)

The drought afflicting southern Australia has now been officially declared the worst since records began and global warming is to blame.
By Pete Mason, Socialist Party (more…)