While Phelps is no candidate of the left, her victory is a huge morale boost for those movements that have been fighting against the Coalition government.
Environment
Susan Price: Parramatta boasts a diverse and cosmopolitan population, and that is one of its strengths.
Socialist Alliance is calling on all Labor and crossbench MPs in the Senate to join with the Greens to vote down the TPP.
Labour's TPP betrayal proves once again it can't be trusted.
The Socialist Alliance will contest the 2019 NSW State Election to put people in control of planning and to build community resistance to corporate greed.
If #Libspill can be summed up as the “madness of Abbott”, we have to recognise that this and other symptoms of political “madness” (such as Trump) are expressions of the dangerous times we live in.
The task of building a stronger socialist left in this country remains.
The internal rifts inside the Liberal Party means the task of building a stronger socialist left in this country is even more urgent.
With confirmation that 100% of New South Wales is now officially in drought, it is clear that the federal government’s climate change denial is putting agriculture and the planet at risk.
By seeking to one-up the government over tax cuts for low and middle income earners, Shorten is perpetuating the idea that tax cuts are a solution to tackling the decline in living standards.
The wealthy and corporations got a visit from Santa Claus, but the rest of us got Scrooged again on Budget night.
We have a chance to get a socialist elected to parliament. If we’re successful, it will be the first time since 1944.