Socialist Alliance news & updates

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Socialist Alliance resolution on left unity
The following resolution was adopted by the Socialist Alliance national council meeting on June 10.
Public education needs full funding
The Gonski review into school funding showed the need for an immediate injection of funds into public schools.
Equal marriage rights: Tell the PM to say: ‘I’ll do it’
“The Gillard government should quit stalling. ALP MPs should vote en bloc for the Greens MP Adam Bandt’s equal marriage rights bill on June 6”, said Peter Boyle, the Socialist Alliance candidate for Sydney.
Nationalise Ford plants to save jobs!

Ford's announcement that it will close its last vehicle manufacturing plants in Australia - in Geelong and Broadmeadows - destroying the jobs of 1,200, is "totally despicable", said Sue Bull, the Socialist Alliance candidate for Corio.

Long live May Day! Workers of the world unite!

As workers around the world take to the streets to celebrate May Day, we are sharply aware that the capitalist system has reached a point of development where it threatens the habitability of the planet on which we all live.

Socialist Alliance campaign inspired by Venezuela's example
Sadly, we have been witnessing over the last few days a course of events that has been all too familiar in our time, especially in Latin America.
Conference builds hope for united socialist left
The overwhelming majority of the 1140 people who attended some part of the Marxism 2013 conference would have agreed with Socialist Alternative national executive member Vashti Kenway at the opening session: "I am feeling extremely hopeful of developments here in the left in Australia."
A salute to Bernie Rosen (1924-2013)
Bernie Rosen really was a man for the people. He battled for the rights of the exploited and oppressed ever since he was a teenager before WWII and then right to the very end of his life last week.
Socialist Alliance pre-selects Peter Boyle for seat of Sydney

"While ALP politicians are fleeing in terror from factional and media accusations about using ‘class war rhetoric’, the reality is that there is an ongoing class war that is about to be dramatically escalated if Abbott wins the September 14 elections", said Peter Boyle.

Left unity now more urgent than before
The abortive leadership spill in the Labor party on March 22 was yet another demonstration of its total political bankruptcy.
Still to be fought for: Equality, justice and freedom from violence for women
The demands of the first-ever International Women's Day Rally in Australia, in 1928, were: equal pay for equal work, an 8-hour day for shop assistants, the basic wage for the unemployed and annual holidays on full pay.
Hugo Chávez Frías – visionary, fighter, compañero

The Socialist Alliance in Australia expresses its deepest sympathies with the people and government of Venezuela on the death of Compañero Hugo Chávez Frías on March 5. His passing is a huge loss for all peoples, across Latin America and the globe, struggling for a world free of inequality, exploitation and oppression.