For John, a Socialist Alliance member in his nineties, it was “the best election result in my lifetime”. He was referring to the political impact of a hung parliament and a record vote for the Greens.

From the top of the stairs at a polling booth in inner-western Sydney’s once safe, now marginal, seat of Grayndler, John waved the Socialist Alliance’s “how to vote” card to the queued voters and campaigners.

His d ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1019 MEDIA RELEASE - Illawarra Socialist Alliance

Friday August 27, 2009 - With Pacific Brands’ announcement of a $52.3 million net profit for the year leading up to June 30, Socialist Alliance has slammed the company and Australian government for putting profit before people yet again. Last February Paci ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1018 By Fred Fuentes for Green Left Weekly

Rather than getting the government we deserve, the August 21 federal election delivered an outcome the two old parties deserved.

With both Labor and the Coalition focusing on negative campaigning, sloganeering and scapegoating ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1017

By denying both the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and the the Liberal-National coalition an outright majority in primary votes and in House of Representatives seats, Australian electors voted “neither of the above” for the traditional parties of government.

This followed an election campaign in which the major parties conducted an ugly race to the right, most notoriously by scapegoating the few thousand desperate refugees who attempt to ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1016

Speech by Pip Hinman to the Grayndler "Great Debate" hosted by the Inner West Courier at Marrickville Town Hall on August 18, 2010. From Jill Hickson on Vimeo.

“There is no ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1014

Jess Moore, Socialist Alliance candidate for Cunningham, and Mel Barnes, candidate for Denison, today urged young people to vote socialist and Greens and put the Coalition last.

“The spectacle of Labor and the Coalition blowing millions in an advertising slagging match is a turn-off to younger voters,” s ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1013

Statement by Pip Hinman, Socialist Alliance Anti-War Spokesperson

For many union leaders afraid of a Coalition victory on August 21, campaigning against Tony Abbott simply means campaigning for Julia Gillard.

With a conservative win on the cards unions have escalated their pro-ALP campaigning. The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union — which has filled Labor’s coffers with more than $340,000 ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1011

By Peter Boyle

Whichever of the major parties wins the August 21 elections, we know that the real job of fighting for progressive change will remain ahead of us.

It is not just because the ALP and the Liberal-National coalition parties have made this election campaign an ugly race to the right – which to the ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1010 Media statement August 9, 2010

Rachel Evans, the lead NSW Senate candidate for Socialist Alliance, condemned Family First’s Wendy Francis’ likening the legalisation of same-sex marriage to the legalisation of child abuse as “homophobic” and “incitement to more violence against lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender and queer people”.

Gemma Weedall, Socialist Alliance candidate for Adelaide, condemned Family First’s Wendy Francis likening the legalisation of same-sex parenting to the legalisation of child abuse, as “homophobic” and “incitement to more violence against lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender and queer people”.

“The one thing we can to thank Wendy Francis ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1008 Sunday, August 8, 2010

The Socialist Alliance proposals for the federal election, detailed here, won’t come cheap. They include lifting welfare payments above the poverty line, ending the 200,000 public housing waiti ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1007 [Download as a PDF]

Adopted at Socialist Alliance's 7th National Conference, January 2010

The Socialist Alliance recognises that there was never any legal or moral justification for the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001: this is not a “good war”.

The war is being prosecuted by the US-NATO forces as part of the US imperialism’s long-term strategic political ...]]> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=1006 [Download as a PDF]

Adopted at Socialist Alliance's 7th National Conference, January 2010