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By Mike Head and Peter Symonds, January 27, 2012
The incident yesterday in Canberra has been used by the media and political establishment to suggest that political protest is illegitimate and potentially dangerous.
By John Braddock, January 26, 2012
The Rena broke in two, worsening the environmental disaster, as the government sought to scapegoat the ship’s captain and navigation officer.
By Will Marshall, January 25, 2012
The destruction of the car workers’ jobs has been orchestrated by the company with the Labor government and the trade unions.
By Alex Messenger, January 25, 2012
The 2011 contraction was the first since the recession of the early 1990s, when official unemployment rose to 9 percent.
By John Braddock, January 24, 2012
As part of a global campaign by the US government, the Megaupload associates face extradition proceedings on copyright charges.
By Terry Cook and Patrick O’Connor, January 24, 2012
The Labor government’s assistance is premised on continuing restructuring measures, coordinated with the trade unions, involving mass layoffs.
By Patrick O’Connor, January 24, 2012
Having lost the support of Andrew Wilkie, reducing its effective parliamentary majority to just one seat, Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s minority Labor government has become even more precarious.
By John Braddock, January 21, 2012
Ports of Auckland is seeking to shatter the conditions of its workforce in line with attacks on waterfront workers internationally.
By Alex Messenger, January 20, 2012
The warnings underscore the acute exposure of Australian capitalism to the worldwide impact of the worsening global financial crisis.
Statement of the Socialist Equality Party, 24 August 2011
The fight against the mass sackings at BlueScope must be taken up not only by steelworkers but by every section of the working class now facing devastating attacks on jobs, wages and working conditions.
Patrick O’Connor, 25 August 2011
The Australian Workers Union (AWU) is stepping up its reactionary nationalist campaign to scapegoat China for the destruction of about 1,400 jobs at BlueScope steel.
By Peter Symonds, 31 December 2010
Washington’s concern was that Rudd’s foreign policy was cutting across the US agenda.
By Nick Beams, 23 December 2010
The following report was delivered by Nick Beams, SEP (Australia) national secretary to SEP public meetings in Melbourne and Sydney on December 20 and 21.
Across the state, the most populous in the country, Labor received only 25.5 percent of the vote—its lowest result since 1904.
Julia Gillard’s installation as prime minister last Thursday through an unprecedented coup initiated within the Labor apparatus by a tiny handful of unknown factional warlords and trade union bureaucrats is a clear warning to the working class.
The sudden ousting of Kevin Rudd has punctured the myth, promoted around the world and at home, of Australia as a land of social stability and political quiescence.
A speech by Tom Albanese, chief executive of the giant mining transnational Rio Tinto, underscores the key role played by the major mining companies in the June 24 coup.
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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The June 2010 Political Coup: A warning to the working class
Mehring Books is proud to announce the publication of The June 2010 Political Coup: A warning to the working class, a powerful collection of articles, comments and political statements originally posted on the World Socialist Web Site.
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