Build the Aboriginal Rights Coalition national conference!

Redfern’s historic “Block” will be the site of the Aboriginal Rights Coalition’s (ARC) first national conference, to be held on May 23-25. The Socialist Alliance gives full support to this initiative, a valuable occasion for Aboriginal people and their supporters from around Australia to share experiences and chart the way forward for Indigenous rights. Download conference brochure here
Download petition against the Northern Territory Intervention
Aboriginal Rights Coalition website
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Let the people decide, let Unions NSW prepare industrial action

“If Morris Iemma is so confident that electricity privatisation represents the best interests of the people of New South Wales, let him put it to a referendum”, says Dick Nichols, National Coordinator of the Socialist Alliance. Unions NSW should commit to organise total union resistance to the privatisation of electricity. [MORE]

Don’t wait until 2010 – Abolish the ABCC now!

Since it was set up in 2005, the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) has operated as an all-powerful secret police in the building industry, attacking unions, unionists and the right to organise. The ABCC has been handed dictatorial power to secretly interrogate and intimidate workers, to jail and levy huge fines, all in the interest of defending profits in the building industry. Socialist Alliance calls on the new Rudd government to honour its commitment to abolish the ABCC, not in 2010 but now! Download flyer here (PDF) [MORE]

Time to get serious about the climate change!

The Rudd Labor government’s climate change target of a 60% cut in carbon emissions by 2050 compared with 2000 levels — has met with sharp criticism from informed commentators. But this drew little publicity until February 21, when professor Ross Garnaut, charged by Labor with preparing recommendations for interim targets, issued a preliminary report calling for the 2050 target to be made much more stringent. Socialist Alliance member Renfrey Clarke explains what is needed for a serious response to climate change.

Sign on here to the public statement "Climate crisis—urgent action needed now!"

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'Apology is a start, now for justice!'

In a short video, five Indigenous activists in the Socialist Alliance share their views on the Australian Parliament's February 13 apology for the Stolen Generations. All five attended the protest against the racist intervention against Aboriginal communities in the Northern territory, held on the eve of this apology. [MORE - 4 COMMENTS]

Let's really clean up the council!

Wollongong City Council: Socialists join call for immediate elections

Members of the Socialist Alliance have thrown their weight behind the growing community campaign for fresh elections to Wollongong City Council. They join the Greens, the South Coast Labour Council and Wollongong Against Corruption (WAC) to name just a few of the groups calling for such action. [MORE]

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