Socialist Equality Party
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By Alex Messenger, July 28, 2010
As the Australian federal election campaign enters its second week, the major political parties and corporate media, followed obediently by the Greens and “ex-left” groups, have already sharply narrowed the terms of permissible debate.
By Joe Lopez, Socialist Equality Party candidate for Swan, July 28, 2010
Yesterday’s pledge by Prime Minister Gillard to spend just $69 million more a year on suicide prevention measures underscores the government’s utter contempt for people suffering from mental illness, and points to its wider plans to cut health spending.
By our reporter, July 27, 2010
SEP national secretary Nick Beams and Noel Holt, the SEP candidate for the federal seat of Newcastle, addressed workers, students and professionals at a well-attended meeting on Sunday.
By Noel Holt, Socialist Equality Party candidate for Newcastle, July 27, 2010
Labor’s legislation actually strengthens the anti-strike provisions of Work Choices. It outlaws all industrial action except during the limited bargaining periods for enterprise agreements at individual workplaces.
By Patrick O’Connor, SEP candidate for the Senate in Victoria, July 26, 2010
Last night’s sole election campaign debate between Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard and opposition Liberal leader Tony Abbott comprised lengthy diatribes by both leaders against refugees and immigrants, and a series of lies and evasions on the world economic crisis, the war in Afghanistan, mounting soci
By Laura Tiernan and Nick Beams, July 26, 2010
The response of the middle-class pseudo-left groups to the coup that removed Australian Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and installed Julia Gillard has highlighted the class interests they serve.
July 26, 2010
The SEP candidates will be addressing public meetings over the next four weeks and final rallies in Melbourne and Sydney.
The Socialist Equality Party calls on working people and youth to support our campaign in the August 21, 2010 federal election and vote for our candidates in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia.
The SEP is the only party advancing a socialist program to defend the interests of the working class in opposition to the entire official political establishment—Labor, Liberal and the Greens. Our aim is to unite working people in Australia and throughout the world to put an end to the social and economic system responsible for austerity and social inequality, militarism and war, attacks on democratic rights, and environmental disaster.
The global economic crisis and the political coup in Australia Socialist Equality Party (Australia) national secretary Nick Beams delivered the following opening report to conferences on “The World Economic Crisis, the Failure of Capitalism and the Case for Socialism,” convened by the SEP and the International Students for Social Equality in Sydney, July 4, and Melbourne, July 11, 2010.
The Historical and International Foundations of the SEP (Australia)Adopted in January by the founding congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia reviews and examines essential historical events and political experiences of the Australian working class throughout the twentieth century, within the context of global economic, political and social processes.
SEP (Australia) Statement of PrinciplesThe SEP Statement of Principles outlines the basic conceptions of the SEP and the foundation for membership in the party. The document was adopted unanimously at the party’s founding congress in Sydney on January 21–25.
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