Please sign on to this statement to support the campaign for the right to strike. You can email your name,contact details, organisation and trade union position (if any) to Susan Price at pricesusan9@gmail.com

Australian law has never provided for the unrestricted right to strike.

http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1194 Dear comrades and friends,

The Socialist Alliance in Australia sends warm comradely greetings for May Day 2012.

May Day this year takes place in tumultuous conditions: the multiple crises confronting global capitalism are deepening, while mass resistance to its brutal rule grows. Taken all together, the people’s uprisings across the ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1193

May 3, 2012

To:

parepcanberra@internode.on.net

parepsydne@comcen.com.au

Dear Sir,

We have been informed by the La ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1192 Saturday, April 21, 2012
By Simon Butler

Liberal and Labor agree the fossil fuel juggernaut must keep rolling on, when the science says this is disastrous.

Over the past few years it appears that debate and conflict about climate policy has dominated Australian politics. But the appearance is different to the reality.

There is no serious ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1191

Adelaide

Saturday, 28 April, 2pm, Victoria Square, Adelaide.

Brisbane

Saturday, 28 April, 1pm, Reddacliff Place, Brisbane.

Canberra

Saturday, 28 April, 2pm, Australian Parliament House.

Hobart

Saturday, 28 April, 2pm, NSW Parliament House, Hobart.

Melbourne

It does set out a schedule for a partial withdrawal of troops — thereby bringing Australia belatedly into line with the US drawdown of troops by 2014. But it also affirms that Australia ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1189 Socialist Alliance statement
20 April, 2012
In the space of a few days, 350 Toyota workers, some of who have spent decades working for the company, have been axed in appalling scenes at the Altona plant, west of Melbourne.

National vehicle division secretary of the Australian Manufact ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1188 Thursday, April 19, 2012
By Susan Austin, Hobart
Tasmania is currently facing a series of big interlinked problems. These include:

Bleeding of skilled p ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1187

April 18, 2012

BERSIH - Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections
13, Lorong 4/48E,
46050 Petaling Jaya
Selangor, Malaysia

Dear friends

On behalf of the Socialist Alliance in Australia we wish your movement the greatest success in the Bersih 3 ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1186

"Within two weeks of taking office, Premier Campbell Newman and his Liberal National Party (LNP) government show signs of returning to the bad old days of the Joh Bjelke-Petersen regime," Liam Flenady, Socialist Alliance candidate for the South Brisbane by-election, said on April 11.

"They have begun to make serious cuts in funding t ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1185 By Jim McIlroy
Brisbane branch co-convenor

The Australian Labor Party (ALP) in Queensland is in its deepest crisis in its 120-year history following the disastrous defeat in the state elections on March 24. A swing of more than 15% to the Liberal-National Party (LNP) has resulted in the Queensland ALP's record lowest primary vote of 26.5%.

Labo ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1184 By Jim McIlroy, Qld co-convenor

Socialist Alliance pushed ahead strongly with its campaign to put socialist politics before the Queensland electorate, as the ALP government faced annihilation in the state election held on March 24. Although everyone knew the government was unpopular, the sheer size of the LNP win took all commentators by surprise.

...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1183

Saturday, March 17, 2012
By John Gauci & Norrian Rundle

The Gonski review into school funding highlighted the need for an immediate injection of funds into public schools.

The recently released independent Gonski review into school funding reaffirms what many teachers and parents already knew. Current school funding arrangeme ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1182

Dear comrades and friends,

Last night (March 19) Zimbabwe ISO leader Munyaradzi Gwisai and his five comrades were found guilty by the Zimbabwean state of “inciting public disorder”, after they organised a film showing and discussion at the Labour Centre in Harare about the Egyptian uprising last ye ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1181 Spend the money on public services and a real investment in a sustainable future instead

Socialist Alliance statement, March 15, 2012

Billions of dollars — desperately needed for public health, education, transport, closing the shameful gap between Aborigines and non-Aborigines and a real response to the climate change crisis ...]]>