In February 2001 the Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) attended a meeting of socialists in Sydney, which reached an historic agreement to establish the Socialist Alliance (SA). The FSP was jubilant about this historic breakthrough. In the next edition of the Freedom Socialist Bulletin (#25), we argued, “the time has never been more urgent or more… Read more »
The explosive protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999 raised the profile of anarchism. Anarchists were very involved in that profound upsurge, and the media cameras particularly focused on those with a penchant for breaking corporate windows. Anarchism is positive in the sense that it is an enraged, eruptive reaction to oppression…. Read more »
This article is an edited and updated version of a talk given by Alison Thorne at a Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) meeting on 31 August 2005. Thorne is a workplace delegate in the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) and an activist in the rank and file caucus, Members First. With the Howard Government gearing… Read more »
For those who have not had the pleasure of an introduction, the Spartacist League (SL) is a self-described “propaganda group” which specialises in sectarian attacks on what it calls “opponent groups” in the socialist movement. A correct view of history is important, because it informs how we organise today and how we form political policy… Read more »
The contrast could not have been greater. On Saturday 11 June, Socialist Alliance (SA) organised a militant National Union Fightback Conference, involving not only rank-and-file unionists, but the leaders of fighting unions across the country and representatives of the combative UNITE union from New Zealand. Arising from this historic gathering was a defiant statement pointing… Read more »
Free Mario Bango Mario Bango is a 21-year-old Roma from Slovakia, imprisoned since March 2001 for the “crime” of defending his younger brother when they were brutally attacked by a neo-Nazi skinhead. Now he has been sentenced to 12 years without parole in prison for attempted murder. Like most Roma in Slovakia, Mario and his… Read more »
The 2004 National Conference of the Socialist Alliance (SA) was a largely successful gathering which made major progress in adopting detailed policy for the upcoming Federal election. For far too long the Alliance has neglected policy. An interminable, and largely irrelevant, debate about its organisational structures has taken up a lot of energy that could… Read more »
In the last Radical Women Supplement, of Freedom Socialist Bulletin # 30 (Summer/Autumn 2004), Radical Women published its letter to the Socialist Alliance National Executive explaining its decision not to formally affiliate to Socialist Alliance (SA) but to instead remain autonomous while actively supporting SA as a united front. We publish below the subsequent discussion… Read more »
Lalitha Chelliah works as a community health nurse in Melbourne’s northern suburbs. A health worker for 25 years, she has worked in India on an AIDS prevention project. Lalitha, who is the lead Senate Candidate for the Socialist Alliance in Victoria, was among a panel of speakers to address a Radical Women meeting in April… Read more »
Socialist Alliance bases its policy on health promotion, disease prevention and timely treatment of illnesses and includes promoting good health. A healthy life depends on a healthy environment and safe working conditions. It will be based on the concept of hope and community control. Socialist Alliance will restore and extend Medicare. Medicare is not just… Read more »
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