In the 1950s, Lee Kuan Yew formed a political association with the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) which had been able to amass and maintain a huge following among the working class.

Ravichandren, Socialist Party, England and Wales, Monday 26 June 2006

Singapore: People’s Action Party consolidates power but dissatisfaction grows

The recently concluded general election on 6 May in Singapore was considered an exciting election, at least by Singaporean standards.

Ravichandran, Socialist Party, England and Wales, Saturday 24 June 2006

East Timor: Timorese soldiers strike against low pay and brutality

Australian government despatches troops to 'secure' Dili airport

Anthony Maine, Socialist Party, Melbourne, Saturday 27 May 2006

Australia: Mass picket brings workers’ victory at Melbourne engineering plant

First serious setback for government’s new anti-union laws

Socialist Party (cwi) members, Melbourne, Wednesday 10 May 2006

Malaysia: Court hangs fire on Socialist Party (PSM) appeal

Socialists and activists demand party’s registration

Putrajaya, Wednesday 19 April 2006

Australia: ‘Labour Relations’ laws a major attack on workers’ rights

Unions leaders finally call national protest action

Anthony Main, Socialist Party (CWI Australia), Monday 10 April 2006

Malaysia: Socialists in court on April 10.

Appeal for world-wide solidarity.

socialistworld.net, Tuesday 4 April 2006

Philippines: Government emergency lifted; but mass poverty and elite rule continue

Workers and poor need to fight on independent socialist programme

Clare Doyle, London, cwi, Thursday 9 March 2006

Philippines: State of Emergency on ‘People Power’ anniversary

30,000 on the streets of Manilla

Clare Doyle cwi, Friday 24 February 2006

Australia: Racial clashes erupt in Sydney

Australia’s largest city of Sydney has seen days of racist violence on its streets and beaches.

Anthony Main, Melbourne, Socialist Party Australia, Thursday 15 December 2005

Australia: 15 November “a brilliant display of workers’ strength”

Time to step up action against anti-worker laws - For a one day general strike!

Eyewitness report from Anthony Main, Socialist Party (CWI), Melbourne, Thursday 17 November 2005

Australia: Over half a million workers strike and protest

Huge rallies protest against anti-union Industrial Relations laws

Niall Mulholland, cwi, Wednesday 16 November 2005

Australia: Socialist Party holds anti-Iraq occupation protest at US Embassy

Melbourne lobby highlights role of US and Australian imperialism

Anthony Main, Socialist Party (CWI), Melbourne, Wednesday 9 November 2005

Australia: Yarra Council defends workers’ collective agreements

Socialist Party Councillor leads opposition to government’s industrial relations

Socialist Party, Australia, Wednesday 12 October 2005

Indonesia: More horrific bombings

For workers’ unity across ethnic and religious divides

By Anthony Main, Socialist Party (CWI), Melbourne, Tuesday 4 October 2005

New Zealand: Low election turnout leave Parliament in political limbo

Results shows workers oppose 20 years of neo-liberalism

Louisa Stewart, Auckland, and Stephen Jolly, Melbourne, Monday, September 19 2005

Philippines: President Arroyo’s corruption leaves Philippines in crisis

The ‘liberal-democratic’ political system of the Philippines is in freefall.

Greg Bradshaw, Socialist Party, Australia, Monday 29 August 2005

Australia: After workers’ mass action against Howard’s Industrial Relations…

Workers need a political voice

Editorial from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, Australia, Wednesday 13 July 2005

Australia: Nation-wide workers’ protests against government

Workers show anger at Industrial Relations legislation

Anthony Maine, Socialist Party (CWI), Melbourne, Thursday 7 July 2005

Australia: Five hundred students strike against Howard government

Youth protest against low pay, casual labour and new anti-worker legislation

Anthony Maine, Socialist Party, Melbourne, Monday 27 June 2005

Australia: Campaigning, socialist representative shakes up Yarra Council, Melbourne

‘Councillor’s Diary’ website launched

socialistworld.net, Friday 27 May 2005

Australia: Howard government gunning for Medicare

Determined mass opposition needed to save health service

Kylie McGregor, Socialist Party, Melbourne, Thursday 12 May 2005

Australia: Time to fight government’s ‘reforms’ – If we don’t fight we lose!

Unions must strike against John Howard anti-workers’ policies

Anthony Maine, Socialist Party (CWI), Melbourne, Tuesday 19 April 2005

Australia: Making socialism relevant

Campaigning work of a Socialist Party councillor in Melbourne

Councillor Steve Jolly, Yarra City Council, Monday 18 April 2005

Australia: Storms ahead

Unions call for strikes against government’s industrial relations ‘reforms’

The Socialist, Australia, Saturday 16 April 2005

Australia: Fighting record puts Socialist on the council

The Socialist Party is proud to announce that Stephen Jolly won a seat in Langridge Ward in the Yarra City Council elections on Saturday.

Socialist Party (cwi), Melbourne, Australia, 30 November 2004

Australia: Right wing Liberals wins federal elections

Howard didn’t win it…Latham lost it!

Socialist Party, Australia, 11 October 2004

Australia: Federal elections – a ‘choice’ of Tweedledum or Tweedledee

Workers need a socialist alternative

John Gowland, Socialist Party, Australia, 21 September 2004

Australia: Joe Higgins visit to Australia a great success

Great reception from workers to socialist MP

Socialist Party members, Australia, 25 August 2004

Australia: Joe Higgins TD speaks to thousands of workers

Visit by socialist member of Irish parliament a huge success

socialistworld.net, 24 August 2004

Australia: Workers need a new Party!

Political vacuum on the left will not remain unfilled

Editorial from The Socialist, Australia, 8 August 2004

Papua New Guinea: John Howard sends Australian troops

Imperialism strengthens its grip in the region

David Murray, Socialist Party (CWI Australia), Newcastle., 28 July 2004

New Zealand/Aotearoa: Imperialism, racism and resistance

Labour appeals to “national unity” while waging war on workers at home and abroad

Tim Bowron, Socialist Alternative (cwi), NZ, 27 June 2004

Australia: East Timorese natural resources stolen

Stop the daylight robbery now!

Socialist Party, Australia, Tuesday, June 07, 11 June 2004

Australia: Unite campaign in Australia wins major victory against low pay

The Socialist Party-initiated Unite campaign and workers at the massive US multi-billion dollar Borders Books company have won a massive victory!

Stephen Jolly, Australia, Tuesday 8 June 2004

Australia: Bullets in the letter box, bullets in the head

A socialist analysis of the gangland wars and police corruption in Victoria

Socialist Party, Australia, 7 June 2004

Indonesia: Corruption, crisis and disillusionment

Harsh reality of capitalism

Yorran Pelekanakis, Socialist Party, Australia, 4 June 2004

Australia: A warning of what Latham would be like

New South Wales Labor government starves public sector of funds

Robyn Hohl, Socialist Party Sydney, 1 May 2004

Australia: Howard must go!

After 8 long years the wait is almost over.

Andrew Calleja, Socialist Party Melbourne, 30 April 2004

Australia: Unite, casual workers’ conference

Unions urged to take up concerns of casual workers.

Report by Socialist Party members, Australia, 18 April 2004

New Zealand/Aotearoa: National party leads polls against Labour

Brash plays the race card as Labour fails Maori and working class

Tim Bowron, Socialist Alternative, Dunedin, 17 April 2004

New Zealand: Socialism and the struggle for Maori liberation

Making sense of the Foreshore and Seabed Controversy

Tim Bowron, cwi NZ, 24 February 2004

Australia: The ‘Block’ explodes in anger

Aboriginal youth clash with police in inner city ghetto

Socialist Party, Sidney, 22 February 2004

New Zealand: Alliance Party conference calls for ‘left regroupment’

Signs of trying to reconnect with its working class support.

Tim Bowron, Socialist Alternative, Dunedin, 15 December 2003

Australia: Low pay campaign hits the streets

Report and picture from the Melbourne Age, new window.

Socialist Party, Australia, 15 November 2003

New Zealand: Activists picket Labour Party conference

Two strongly contrasting styles of democracy

By a cwi correspondent in Christchurch, 10 November 2003

Australia: Howard’s government launches huge attack on civil liberties

Greg Bradshaw, Australian Section of the CWI, looks at the recently introduced Australian Terrorism Bill and the new powers of Australia’s spy agency.

CWI online, 28 August 2003

New Zealand: Privatisation in sorry mess

Labour’s free market policies to blame for rail and electricity woes.

Tim Bowron, Socialist Alternative, New Zealand, 19 August 2003

Australia: That Which Surrounds Me

Refugees, racism and capitalism in Australia. First published 2002. 13,000 words.

Stephen Jolly, Socialist Party, CWI in Australia., 5 August 2003

Australia: No troops to Solomon Islands!

Howard launches colonial intervention.

Denise Dudley, Melbourne, Socialist Party, CWI in Australia, 26 July 2003

Aceh Indonesian army unleashes bloody assault

The Indonesian army has launched a ferocious military assault in Aceh in an attempt to destroy the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and to cow the local population.

Stephen Jolly, Socialist Party, Australia, 28 May 2003

New Zealand: Labour Government’s fake opposition to the Iraq war

A short time ago Helen Clark and her colleagues in the New Zealand Labour Government were being widely praised for their bold stand against the US-led invasion of Iraq.

Tim Bowron, Socialist Alternative, Dunedin, 4 May 2003

New Zealand: Anti-war protest targets senior government minister

On Saturday, 12 April, at noon, a peace vigil was held in the centre of Dunedin, beginning a day of action in solidarity with similar anti-war protests and demonstrations in other parts of New Zealand and right around the world.

Jon Coughlin, Socialist Alternative, Dunedin, 16 April 2003

Australia: More school strikes in Melbourne

Three thousand mainly school students, after leaving school to strike against the war, marched through Melbourne on Wednesday 26 March against the war on Iraq.

Socialist Party members, Australia, 27 March 2003

Australia: Melbourne kicks off anti-war weekend with huge protest

Media estimates put the number of anti-war demonstrators in central Melbourne today (14 February) at between 100,000 to 200,000.

CWI online, London, 14 February 2003

Australia: Students set to strike against war...unions discuss industrial action...US navy dissent

Socialist Party members (CWI in Australia) recently launched the Youth Against War campaign (YAW) and have called a schools' strike in Melbourne for tomorrow, 14 February, on the same day as a massive demonstration in downtown Melbourne. CWI online, 13 February 2003

New Zealand: Organisers of anti-war petition attract 300 signatures in Dunedin

An article from the Otago Daily Times (New Zealand) which highlights the campaigning work by the newly formed CWI group in New Zealand against the war plans of Bush.

CWI Online, 15 January 2003

New Zealand: We need a new workers' party

We are very pleased to post an article on the need for a new alternative to the bosses' parties in New Zealand from the first edition of a journal produced by Socialist Alternative, the newly established CWI in New Zealand.

CWI online, 8 January 2003.

Australia: Labour landslide in Victoria State elections means more cuts

Within 48 hours of Labour being re-elected in a landslide, Victorian unions (many of whom played a key role in mobilising to get Labour in power) were being rebuffed by Labour leader Steve Bracks in their demand for industrial manslaughter legislation to penalise bosses who kill or injure workers.

Stephen Jolly, Socialist Party, Melbourne, 5 December 2002.

New Zealand: A new upturn in industrial struggle

After years of relative quiet, more and more workers in New Zealand are taking industrial action, including recent wildcat strikes by teachers and rail workers and action by health sector employees.

Tim Bowron, CWI, New Zealand, 30 October 2002

Indonesia: Terrorism and state terrorism

THE BOMBING of a tourist area on the Indonesian island of Bali has been blamed by Western governments on the Jemaah Islamiah Islamic group with links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qa'ida terrorist network.

From The Socialist, 20 October 2002.

Indonesia: Bali bombings: no to war and terrorism, fight for international socialism

The terrifying carnage which ripped through the Sari nightclub at Kuta beach in Bali, Indonesia, has shocked working people and youth internationally.

CWI analysis, 14 October, 2002

Indonesia: Bali terror attacks

The horrific bombings at the nightclubs in Bali have left up to 300 Australians dead, the biggest toll since the 500+ killed in the Vietnam War.

Steve Jolly, Socialist Party, Australia, 14 October 2002

New Zealand: False Left hope. The rise and fall of the Alliance

The New Zealand general elections in July 2002 saw many unprecedented changes in voting patterns.

Niall Mullholland, from Socialism Today, 7 September 2002

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