http://www.socialistpartyaustralia.org Socialist Party - Australian section of the Committee for a Workers' International Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:48:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en December 2011 saw yet more asylum seekers tragically drown as their boat sank on the journey to Australia. The response of both major parties has been to descend into a vile contest of who can out do the other as the toughest on people smugglers. The Greens refugee spokesperson, Sarah ... http://www.socialistpartyaustralia.org/archives/3311 What has changed in 40 years? January 26 marked the 40th anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra. The establishment of the Tent Embassy in 1972 represented an historic watershed in the Indigenous struggle for self-determination. The mainstream account of history teaches that it was the 1967 referendum that finally ... http://www.socialistpartyaustralia.org/archives/3308 Frequently asked questions about Socialism With the rise of the Occupy movement, opposition to the existing political and economic order has gone mainstream. It’s hard to imagine that the bandana-clad woman on the cover of Time magazine – representing “The Protestor,” Time’s “Person of the Year” – has many nice things ... http://www.socialistpartyaustralia.org/archives/3306 Ian Angus and Simon Butler’s book ‘Too Many People?’ provides a great service to the workers’ movement by systematically demolishing a key argument of the Right. Since the 18th century, capitalism and its supporters have tried to ‘blame the victim’ for the horrors of their system. Arguing that over-population is a ... http://www.socialistpartyaustralia.org/archives/3302 CWI’s Zhang Shujie speaks out at hearing in Sweden’s parliament “I was warned that I could get several years in prison for ‘contact with a banned organisation’ and for ‘crimes related to national security’ ”. Zhang Shujie, a socialist from China, explained his ordeal at a hearing at the Swedish parliament ... http://www.socialistpartyaustralia.org/archives/3299 Masses in Cairo and other cities demand end to military rule Yesterday, 25th January, marked the first anniversary of start of the revolutionary movement of the masses in Egypt, which eventually led to the fall of the dictator Hosni Mubarak. Yesterday, millions of Egyptians again took to the ... http://www.socialistpartyaustralia.org/archives/3297 Total shut down across the country as the working class shows it owns society On Monday 9 January, 2012, tens of thousands of Nigerians marched through the streets of Lagos in a demonstration against the removal of the fuel subsidy by the Nigerian government. As a result of this policy, the ... http://www.socialistpartyaustralia.org/archives/3293 The occupy movement brought opposition to capitalism from the margins into the mainstream Despite near universal demonisation of socialist ideas in the corporate media and political establishment, according to a new Pew Research Center Poll half of young people aged 18-29 view socialism positively while only 43 percent react negatively to ... http://www.socialistpartyaustralia.org/archives/3291 Peter Taaffe, from the International Secretariat of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI), looks at the outlook for 2012. http://www.socialistpartyaustralia.org/archives/3288 Government debt soars to ‘European’ levels following massive stimulus programme As the global economy lurches towards renewed recession and financial turmoil, concerns are growing over the state of China’s largely state-owned banking system. For more than two years an unprecedented surge of bank credit has powered the biggest construction boom in ... http://www.socialistpartyaustralia.org/archives/3285