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  • The looming battle over roads

    The looming battle over roads

    Big business greed vs. community need In the past weeks we have seen numerous community pickets in Melbourne targeting the East-West tunnel and toll road. The Socialist Party has been playing a key role in the actions. Below we publish an editorial comment about the issue that will be published [...]

  • Community pickets disrupt East-West tunnel project

    Community pickets disrupt East-West tunnel project

    “Building the roads of the 21st century” has become something of a mantra for the newly elected federal Liberal government. It is aimed at appeasing the big business oil and freight lobby at the expense of communities in desperate need of improved and expanded public transport. By SP reporters Melbourne [...]

  • Holden forces workers to pay for the crisis

    Holden forces workers to pay for the crisis

    Union leaders offer no way forward The recent deal forced down the throats of Holden employees in South Australia should send a shiver down the spine of every worker in the country. By Stephen Jolly, Socialist Party Threatened with the dole queue if they didn’t agree, and harangued by their [...]

  • Liberal-National coalition sweeps to power

    Liberal-National coalition sweeps to power

    Editorial comment from the September edition of ‘The Socialist’ The conservative Liberal-National coalition led by Tony Abbott swept to power in the Australian federal election on Saturday September 7. While a couple of seats are still to be determined, the Coalition is on track to win 89 of the 150 [...]

  • Why the media attempts to demonise young women

    Why the media attempts to demonise young women

    Over the last few years we have seen a resurgence in women struggling for social change in many parts of the world. These struggles have developed a renewed understanding of the need to fight back against constant attacks on women’s bodies and women’s rights in all aspects of life. The [...]

World News & Analysis

  • Russia: Putin introduces homophobic laws
  • NZ: The roots of Labour’s leadership crisis
  • Syria: US and Britain prepare military attack against Assad regime
  • South Africa: Workers remember the Marikana massacre a year ago
  • Egypt: Hundreds dead as military tries to consolidate power
  • “We stand on the eve of convulsive events, the greatest in world history”

Australian News & Analysis

  • The looming battle over roads
  • Community pickets disrupt East-West tunnel project
  • Holden forces workers to pay for the crisis
  • WA: Barnett government announces job losses, pay cuts and privatisation
  • Liberal-National coalition sweeps to power
  • Tecoma stands up to McDonald’s

Theory & History

  • Chile: 40th anniversary of bloody overthrow of Allende government
  • Book: It doesn’t have to be like this
  • Socialism and Left Unity – A critique of the SWP
  • What role for cooperatives in changing the world?
  • The murder of Rosa Luxemburg
  • Che Guevara: Symbol of fashion or symbol of struggle?

Reviews & Letters

  • Film review: Elysium
  • Film review: ‘NO’ – an exercise in rewriting history
  • Book Review: The New Capitalist Elite
  • Book review: Drone Warfare
  • Film Review: Zero Dark Thirty
  • Book review: Looking for the light on the hill

Socialist Party News

  • Socialism 2013 event in Melbourne this weekend!
  • Why I joined the Socialist Party
  • Why I joined the Socialist Party
  • Successful 2013 SP National Conference
  • Why I joined the Socialist Party
  • Why I joined the Socialist Party

Photo Galleries

  • Rally for same-sex marriage rights – No to homophobia!
  • High school student rally against education cuts – Melbourne
  • World Refugee Day
  • National Student Strike May 14 – Melbourne rally
  • 10,000 construction workers rally for safety in Melbourne CBD
  • University students in Melbourne rally against education cuts