Liam Flenady for Griffith, Queensland

Liam Flenady has been active in a number of social movements over the last few years including anti-CSG, Occupy, Wikileaks, and education cuts, amongst others. He has been actively involved in fighting back against Campbell Newman’s public and community sector cuts through the coalition QLD Uncut. In 2012 ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1283

Corporate power runs Australia right now. Parliaments are subject to the real power of the business class in the final instance. We urgently need real democracy, based on people power.

Against the money and lobbying strength of the mining, banking and energy industries, we will need to build a mass movement based on grassroots action to demand that the co ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1282

Around the world, over the past 30 years or more, the ruling classes have launched an offensive against working people and the “welfare state,” under the theme of “Neoliberalism.”

Beginning in the US with Ronald Reagan and Britain with Margaret Thatcher, the neoliberal push was on for privatisation of public assets, cuts to social welfare, deregulation of ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1281

The Big Four banks — the Commonwealth Bank, NAB, ANZ and Westpac — are together the most concentrated and profitable set of banks in the world. The Australian Big Four represent half of the eight most profitable banks on the entire globe.

Last year, the Big Four raised their cash profits to a combined total of $25.1 billion, compared to $24.1 billion the ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1280

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander rights: Treaty now to respect sovereignty; repeal the Northern Territory intervention laws; abolish racist welfare quarantining; no uranium waste dumps; close the gap in Aboriginal health, education and housing.

Public ownership: Nationalise the mines, banks and energy companies, under community and workers’ co ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1279

The giant mining corporations make the biggest profits of all industries in Australia. BHP Billiton posted a profit of $14.7 billion last year, while Rio Tinto made a half-year profit of almost $5 billion.

In 2012, the mining industry made 21.6% of all profit in Australia, despite employing only 2.3% of the workforce.

Mining magnate Gina Rin ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1278

We could redesign our economy to make it climate-friendly very quickly — if there was the political will to put the welfare of people and planet before short-term profit.

Australia’s energy system was built by public investment. A serious response to the climate change emergency would have the government do it again — this time creating many thousands of secure ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1277

TAKE BACK THE WEALTH!

Put the mines, banks and energy companies in the hands of the people!

Socialist Alliance says:

Bring the mining industry, the big banks and the energy companies ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1276 Sunday, May 12, 2013
By Peter Boyle
As the 2013 federal budget looms, both the Labor government and the Opposition insist on the need to cut social spending. All the talk is about bringing the budget back into surplus as soon as possible and the cuts, they argue, will be needed to end the federal deficit.

Ministers in Julia Gillard’s government have warned of a huge ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1275 Saturday, May 4, 2013
By Sue Bolton
Moreland Council is proposing to install more CCTV cameras in response to concerns about safety after the murder of Jill Meagher last year.

The expansion of CCTV cameras, already a civil liberties concern, would do little to make women safer on the streets at night.

As part of this law and order agenda, the state go ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1274

May Day message from the Socialist Alliance

As workers around the world take to the streets to celebrate May Day, we are sharply aware that the capitalist system has reached a point of development where it threatens the habitability of the planet on which we all live.

Last month, for the first time in three million years, the carb ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1273

Sydney 2013

Dear comrades and friends of the NPPF Australia,

The Socialist Alliance is very pleased to send greetings to your Third General Convention in Sydney this weekend. We hope that your discussions and campaign planning at this convention are very successful in helping to build the Nepalese People’s Progressive Forum in ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1272 Speech by Peter Boyle, Socialist Alliance candidate for Sydney, a ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1271 Media release: Sydney April 17, 2013

Socialist Alliance Sydney candidate for Sydney, Peter Boyle, will join a student protest outside MP Tanya Plibersek's office today at 2.30pm against the new education cuts.

The protest is part of a National Union of Students' called national day of action.

The hopes for closer un ...]]>