Socialist Party newsletter Wednesday 5th July 2000 Produced every second Wednesday PO Box 1015, Collingwood 3066 Ph: (03) 9417 0805 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web address: http://home.mira.net/~sp/ Fundraiser this Friday Party on with the Socialist Party this Friday (7th July) from 6pm till late at the Comrades Bar, Swanston St, Carlton South (near Queensbury St). There'll be live music, raffles and an auction with all proceeds going to the fund for two members off next week to the international youth school run by our international group, the Committee for a Workers International. Already a magnificent $6,200 has been raised! Thanks to Lorriane $50, Yvette $100, Nigel, Jimmy and Mick from the CFMEU for $20 each, $20 from new member Terry, $600 from Marisa, $200 from Gary, $95 from a workplace collection and personal donation by public servant Steve. Make sure you are there to party on with us. Free entry. New pamphlet on globalisation launched next Tuesday We are launching a new pamphlet, Cancel the Debt: Why we should abolish the IMF and World Bank, next Tuesday at the New International Bookshop, Trades Hall, Cnr Lygon and Victoria Sts, Carlton South from 7pm. Light refreshments available. The pamphlet explains how imperialism, globalisation, and the exploitation of workers works, particularly in the Third World. It also offers a clear socialist alternative and a way to take the anti-capitalist movement forward after September 11th. It's $2 a copy. SP National Secretary Stephen Jolly launches the pamphlet on Tuesday night. Day school: Crash course introduction to marxism On Sunday week, July 16th, we host a one-day introduction to Marxism school open to non-members and members. It starts with Marx and Engels and their creation of scientific socialist ideas and the First International and moves through a history of the workers' movement in cronological order to the present day, touching on the four internationals, reformism and revolution, 1917, the rise of Stalinism, anarchism, the coming to power of Hitler, the Spanish Civil War, the post-war boom, the colonial revolution, the 1960s upsurge, the neo-liberal onslaught in the 1980s-90s and now. Reading for the day (a folder packed with relevant writing by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, CWI etc) is available by ringing 9417-0805 or 9489 4757. It starts at 10am at the New International Bookshop and should finish at 4pm. More days will be organised, especially as it likely we will not finish all the sessions in one day. Free entry, donations welcome for the photocopying. Calling all school Students, teachers and friends of school students The Socialist Party is calling high school strike on Monday September 11th to link up with the workers' and community demonstration outside the World Economic Forum meeting at Melbourne's Crown Casino. The meeting sees the world's capitalists, right wing politicians, arms manufacturers etc get together to discuss new and better ways to promote neo-liberalism and the exploitation of workers and the environment. Be there to protest! We have leaflets to distribute to schools in Victoria. 15 schools have already been leafleted with some success. We need to do lots more. Phone 0408 588586 or above number to get leaflets for your school. The school students will rally at 9am at Flinders St Station to march to the Crown Casino. Come to the Sydney Olympics Protest! The coach to the Olympic Protest leaves Melbourne's Trades Hall on Thursday September 14th at 6pm to get into Sydney the next morning for the Opening Ceremony. There we will join members of the Aboriginal community to march to the Games themselves to peacefully defy the anti-civil rights legislation banning protest and to protest at the elitism of the Games. The coach arrives back in Melbourne on Saturday afternoon (16th). It's $20 for a deposit on a seat. The coach will have music, entertainment and lots of politics. Don't miss the chance of a lifetime. Book now by contacting us at the above phone number or email or postal address. Great effort with the fighting fund last month In Melbourne $588.25 was collected through branch activities over the month (not including members' subs) and Perth and Sydney have both seen huge paper sale and/or Fighting Fund increases. In Melbourne $300 of the money was raised over three days on three stalls in late June. CWI news Britain Three Socialist Party comrades were elected on to the national executive committee of UNISON (the main public sector union), including Ralph Parkinson (from Merseyside), the first black Marxist member of the NEC. A fourth comrade also won a very good vote. These marvellous results indicate the key role the SP will continue to play in Britain's largest union. Sri Lanka The situation in Sri Lanka remains extremely tense with no progress in relation to either the war or a settlement. The suicide bomb attacks in Colombo have been followed by the burning of Tamil shops and homes and by mass round-ups and interrogations of Tamil people. The paper of the United Socialist Party (CWI section) - 'Red Star' - has had its editorial and leading article totally removed by censor! India Last week, two comrades in Bangalore - including full-timer, Jagadish - were arrested and held for 7 hours along with 150 protesters. For a week, police and demonstrators had been surrounding a conference centre where 1,000 foreign investors were gathering to attend a 25-day "Bazaar" at which 15 state-owned projects were being sold off at knock-down prices. The demonstrators were organised under the banner of the Anti-Imperialist Forum (AIF), in which our organisation played a key role. -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
