Coal miners and family members spoke to SEP presidential candidate Jerry White about social conditions in southern West Virginia. The area, which was the center of the Mine Wars of the 1910s and 1920s against the dictatorial rule of coal bosses, has been hit hard by mine closures, chronic joblessness and a drug epidemic.
Sydney’s Macquarie University axes jobs and courses in line with Labor’s pro-business agenda
The redundancies are coupled with major curriculum changes, leaving substantially reduced options for students, in line with Labor’s restructuring of universities to meet “national priorities.”
A Macquarie University Rank-and-File Committee member•
Victorian Socialists expand across Australia: A political trap to corral mounting anti-capitalist sentiment
The attempt to claim the mantle of “the Socialist Party” and to describe itself as “the socialists” is a fraud being perpetrated by the pseudo-left Socialist Alternative, with the backing of elements of the media and political establishment.
Oscar Grenfell•
Australia: State Labor government in Victoria secretly guts $2.4 billion in school funding
The cuts also impact federal funding arrangements, which are matched to the state allocation. That brings the total withdrawal of desperately needed school funding to $3 billion.
Patrick O’Connor•
Australia: SEP censored at Melbourne rally on police killing of Aboriginal man
The SEP was attacked and forced out of a protest by the Black People’s Union for exposing the class roots of state violence and advancing a socialist perspective.
Max Boddy•
Mike Head•
Martin Scott•
Richard Phillips•
Peter Symonds•
Mike Head•