ARMIDALE Thirty people discussed the economic and environmental crises at a public forum organised by the New England Socialist Alliance (SA) branch on March 12.
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At first glance the Prime Minister Kevin Rudds Nation Building and Jobs Plan looks like a pre-emptive strike against looming recession and unemployment.
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At first glance Prime Minister Kevin Rudds Nation Building and Jobs Plan looks like a pre-emptive strike against looming recession and unemployment.
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Over the weekend of 5-7 December, more than 150 people attended the Sixth Socialist Alliance national conference, held in the Geelong Trades Hall. The conference opened against the backdrop of the Alliance’s promising results in the November 29 Victorian local government elections, in which its candidates scored up to 18.9%.
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Geelong Trades Hall secretary Tim Gooden thinks its high time for the construction industry unions to stop feeding the hand that strangles us. Gooden was referring to the fact that under the legislation that set up the Australian Building and Construction Commission, unions and workers have been hit with $1.39 million in fines ($654,000 of which has been suspended).
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In periods of capitalist economic implosion, increased public spending and an enlarged role for the public sector becomes unavoidable, even for the most one-eyed of free marketeers.
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The challenges, opportunities and responsibilities that socialists face today are huge.
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Morris Iemma and Michael Costa crashed out of NSW politics because they tried to ignore overwhelming public opposition to electricity privatisation.
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There’s one positive aspect of global financial chaos. It throws into question the Australian model of funding our retirement—compulsory superannuation.
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Voices from Venezuela — Behind the Bolivarian revolution
By Coral Wynter & Jim McIlroy
Resistance Books, 2008
316pages, $25
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The latest issue of the Socialist Alliance’s national discussion bulletin, Alliance Voices, is out, in a new web-based format. It can be found at .
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In the two years that have passed since the Socialist Alliance’s fifth national conference, the Australian political terrain has shifted a lot.