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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.

Let the Tibetans decide their future

The Socialist Alliance consistently defends the right of self-determination for all oppressed peoples.

Workers defy Boeing, anti-union laws and win

Workers at Port Melbourne's Boeing plant won a victory over the eighth largest transnational corporation in the world after a three-week strike that defied draconian anti-union laws still on the books six months after the defeat of the Howard Coalition government.

NSW anti-power sell off campaign scores a win

The Iemma Labor government of NSW is ignoring the 702 to 107 vote against its electricity privatisation plan at the NSW Labor conference. The only way to stop electricity privatisation now is the combination of industrial action and mass public protest. Unions NSW must commit to organise total union resistance to the sell-off, starting with an industrial campaign of complete non-cooperation with government privatisation plans.

Boeing workers strike against unionist's sacking

Some 700 workers employed at the Port Melbourne-based Boeing subsidiary Hawker de Havilland are on strike over sacking of an Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) member. Socialist Alliance offers its unconditional support to this strike and demands that the Rudd Labor government honour its promise to rip up all of the former Howard government's Work Choices laws. UPDATE: Boeing workers declared victory 4pm, Sunday April 27!

'MUA here to stay!': 10 years after Patricks

Chris Cain, WA branch secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and Socialist Alliance member explains the significance of this extraordinary struggle.

Slideshow: The case against electricity privatisation

It�s time to apply our pressure against theirs. All the forces in favour of the electricity privatisation proposed by NSW premier Morris Iemma and treasurer Michael Costa have been heavying the delegates to the NSW ALP conference as well as NSW Labor MPs.

Videos & audio recordings from Climate Change Social Change conference

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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)

Lessons from Cuba's response to 'Peak Oil'

When Cuba lost access to Soviet oil, fertilizers and export trade market in the early 1990s, the country faced virtual overnight economic collapse and an immediate crisis - feeding the population. The story of the Cuban people's hardsh ...

A video you should watch

According to glaciologists, a thin strip of ice 6 kilometers wide is is all that is holding back the collapse of a large ice shelf...

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Climate Change | Social Change conference

A conference to strengthen radical social action to stop climate change - organised by Green Left Weekly & endorsed by Socialist Alliance

Redfern Community Centre (Fri April 11), and Sydney Girls High School (Fri April 11 evening, Sat and Sun April 12 & 13, near corner Anzac Parade & Cleveland streets, Surry Hills) Sydney