By Peter Boyle

Rupert Murdoch’s flagship newspaper, The Australian, has been on a campaign to destroy the Greens because it is a major – and growing – electoral break from the “Lib-Lab”, two-parties-for-capitalism, system that has dominated politics in this country for more than a century. In the last two weeks this campaign has ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1169

[Download as a PDF] Adopted January 2012 1. The Socialist Alliance condemns the increased US military presence in Australia, announced by PM Julia Gillard and US President Barack Obama during Obama’s visit to Australia in November 2011 as a setback for peace. 2. The new A ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1168 [Download as a PDF] Adopted January 2012 The upsurge in class struggle on all continents that characterised 2011 began with uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt that rapidly spread to other Arab countries, becoming collectively known in the West as the “Arab Spring”. The “Arab Spring” upris ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1167 Media statement: February 2, 2012 “The racist hysteria about the Aboriginal Tent Embassy protests against PM Julia Gillard and Opposition leader Tony Abbott on January 26, prove that the Tent Embassy is as relevant as it was in 1972 when it was established, said Sam Watson, the Socialist Alliance national spokesperson on Aboriginal affairs. Sam Watson, a respected Murri activist, filmmaker and playwright, participated in the 1972 Tent Embassy protest and was in Canb ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1166 Friday, January 27, 2012 By Jim McIlroy, Brisbane Following Queensland Labor Premier Anna Bligh’s announcement that a state election would take place on March 24, the two Socialist Alliance candidates issued an initial joint statement. Mike Crook, who will contest the seat of Sandgate, and Liam Flenady, who will stand in South Brisbane said on January 27: ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1165 SYDNEY - The 8th national conference of the Socialist Alliance ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1164 Dick Nichols returns from a year at Green Left Weekly's European desk in Barcelona with an eyewitness and multimedia report on the resistance movements to capitalist austerity in Europe. Friday Jan 20, 7pm Sydney Resistance Centre, 22-36 Mountain St, Ultimo Entry by gold coin donation. Bookings 02-8070 9331 * For those who are not in Sydney, t ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1163 Below are some of the greetings to the 8th national conference of the Socialist Alliance. Greetings were also received from Patrice Nyembo, President of the Congolese Community of Australia, Hom from the Nepalese People's Progressive Forum and Victor-Hugo Munoz from the Latin America Social Forum * * * from NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge This video shows the greetings given by NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge to the conference on January 22. < ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1162 Saturday, January 14, 2012 By Paul Benedek The global economic meltdown is yet to hit Australia hard, but 2011 was still a busy year of struggle in this relatively sheltered, wealthy country. The year began with an Australian citizen on the global centre stage. WikiLeaks cables embarrassed governments worldwide, revealing war crimes a ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1161 By Peter Boyle Socialist Alliance national convenor After an intense year of political activity in 2011, Socialist Alliance members have been preparing for the organisation's 8th national conference which will be held in Sydney January 20-22. Delegates are being elected from branches and already 10 volumes of All ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1160 November 30, 2011 Tony Iltis The increased US military presence in Australia, announced by PM Julia Gillard and US President Barack Obama during Obama’s November 16-17 visit, is a setback for peace. Australia should be closing existing US military bases in Australia and put an end to existing joint military exercises with US forces. Australia should stop taking part in US-led military aggression. In particular, it should withdraw Australian soldiers from Afghani ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1159 The Socialist Alliance released the statement below on November 25. * * * The federal government, through its “Stronger Futures” bill and associated legislation, seeks to lock in “intervention mark II” — for 10 years. Far from being the end of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (as the NT intervention legislation, ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1155 Socialist Alliance media release Thursday November 24, 2011 "The Australian government should come out and support the Egyptian people in their demand that the Egyptian Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) return the government to the people who successfully ousted the former dictator Hosni Murbarak in February this year," Socialist Allia ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1154 Venue: Sydney Resistance Centre, 22 Mountain St, Ulti ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1153 Calls for closure of all uranium mines and total end to uranium exports Media release November 16, 2011 "PM Julia Gillard's policy backflip on the sale of uranium to India, a non-signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), is yet another sorry betrayal of ALP policy on the mining and export of uranium," said Socialist Alliance National C ...]]>