Hello Left Linkers
Can you help the Socialist Alliance by Networking?
An election is getting very close!
The Socialist Alliance Senate team is available to speak to groups anywhere
around the state. Contact Peter Murray at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call
him on 03-9386-5065
It would be super if you could forward on info about the Alliance to your
networks.
The major parties have plenty of money to get their message out. We don't
have money, but Socialist Alliance has energy, committment and a damn good
ideas.
Please assist voters to be aware of their range of choices this polling
day, by forwarding this message.
Thanks
Alison Thorne
Socialist Alliance Senate Candidate
Vote NO to war and racism
VOTE SOCIALIST ALLIANCE
Get the Liberals out! Welfare not warfare!
John Howard hopes to ride a wave of anti-refugee racism and pro-war
hysteria to get the Liberals re-elected in a few weeks time. His government
is determined for Australia to play a "high level role" in any U.S.
military action aimed at Osama bin Laden or the Taliban government of
Afghanistan.
The government has used the horror of the attack on the World Trade Centre
to whip up more opposition to refugees. Government ministers have suggested
that there is a direct connection between the threat of terrorism in
Australia and asylum seekers arriving by boat. But like the other myths the
government spreads about refugees, there is no evidence at all for such a
suggestion.
Divide and rule
The Howard government is cynically playing the refugee race card to try and
divert attention away from the GST and the Liberals' appalling record on
nursing homes, health spending and child care. The government has been
more than willing to spend over $110 million dollars for the navy to
intercept asylum seekers, but it is not prepared to spend even $20 million
to save 16,000 Ansett jobs. Workers are still waiting for a national scheme
that will protect all their entitlements when companies go bust. While
company directors walk away with millions of dollars in bonuses and
payouts, Ansett workers stand to lose millions of dollars in entitlements.
Labor is boosting Howard's chances
Howard is riding high in the opinion polls, because the Liberals'
anti-refugee policy and its pro-war hysteria have been totally backed by
Labor's parliamentary leaders. Rather than take a principled stand, Labor
has shamefully taken the path of crass electoral opportunism, deserting
those who still looked to it as the party that would to take up the fight
to the Coalition.
Labor's electoral strategy has opened the door to the Liberals. Over recent
months, they supported the Liberals' handing billions to private health
companies and rich private schools. Nonetheless only a few weeks ago,
Howard looked dead in the water. Now, with Labor totally supporting Howard
on refugees and Bush's "war on terrorism", there are real fears that the
Liberals could get elected for a third term.
That prospect is frightening. The racism that Howard has unleashed over
refugees will get a renewed lease of life. The war-mongering will escalate.
Our democratic rights will be cut back on the grounds of "national
security." Howard has also flagged compulsory work for anyone unemployed
longer than six months. On top of all this loom the full privatisation of
Telstra and the airports, and more attacks on the union and working conditions.
Wanted: a fighting alternative
We need a fighting alternative like never before. The basis for a fight
back is there. Thirty-nine per cent of people oppose any involvement in the
war. Over 60 per cent say that any retaliation should not be against
civilian targets. What's needed is organisation to turn this opposition
into action. Rallies and demonstrations can turn the tables on the Liberals
and the war-mongers in the Labor Party.
Socialist Alliance members are throwing themselves into the campaign to
stop Howard and Bush's war. We've consistently fought to free the refugees.
Socialist Alliance organised national protests on the anniversary of the
introduction of the GST.
A vote for Socialist Alliance is a vote for welfare NOT warfare. It's a
vote against racism. It's a vote to tax the rich to fund services. It's a
vote to put people before profits.
VOTE SOCIALIST ALLIANCE!
- David Glanz, for Wills - Jackie Lynch, for Batman - Jorge Joquera, for
Gellibrand - Tim Gooden, for Corio - Josephine Cox, for Aston
- Alison Thorne & Sarah Peart, Victorian Senate team
Socialist Alliance, Wills Branch
- 03-9388-0062 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.socialist-alliance.org
Authorised by Peter Murray, 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick 3056 Printed by
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