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	Socialist Alternative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Socialist Alternative is the name used by affiliates of the Committee for a Workers International in several countries.
		Socialist Alternative (Austria) is affiliated to the United Secretariat of the Fourth International.
		Socialist Alternative / Solidarity (Switzerland) is affiliated to the United Secretariat of the Fourth International.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Alternative (173 words)

	Stephen Roth Institute: Antisemitism And Racism
		A number of small political groups which describe themselves as communist, socialist or anarchist, such as the Socialist Alliance, the Communist League, the Communist Party of Australia and Socialist Alternative, share with the far right a vigorous opposition to the ‘establishment’ and the perceived power holders.
		For example, the Socialist Alternative, openly opposes Israel’s existence and promotes the myth that ‘Zionists’ worked ‘hand in hand’ with the rulers of Nazi Germany (Socialist Alternative, 2 June 2004) and The Guardian, published by the Communist Party of Australia, includes direct analogies between Israel and Nazi Germany (see, for example, 15 Sept. 2004).
		Australia participated in all four Stockholm forums against intolerance since their inception in 2000, as well as the Durban UN World Conference Against Racism and members of the Jewish community have been on the official Australian government delegations at all five of these events.
	www.tau.ac.il /Anti-Semitism/asw2004/australia.htm (2650 words)

	Dateline Australia
		Australia’s established parties representing the interests of big business are marching ever rightward, at horrible human cost.
		Socialist Alliance (SA) was born on the initiative of the Democratic Socialist Party and the International Socialist Organisation.
		Socialists in Australia, as elsewhere, have tended to orient narrowly to trade unions with primarily white, male memberships.
	www.socialism.com /fsarticles/vol22no3/Australia.html (899 words)

	Weekly Worker 482 Thursday May 29 2003
		The ‘Resignation statement’, signed by 25 members of the International Socialist Organisation in Australia, is only a foretaste of what will sooner of later happen to any sect - big or small - that stands in the way of left unity and the fight for a revolutionary party of the working class.
		The Socialist Alliance in Australia - led by the Democratic Socialist Party - is set on a course to establish a multi-tendency socialist party.
		Unfortunately reports reaching me from Australia indicate that this is largely intended as a wrecking operation - not in the spirit of carrying through the decisions of the annual conference to establish the alliance as a party.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/482/saa.html (1345 words)

	A Socialist alternative to the European Union
		From a socialist point of view, the uniting of these economies would be an entirely rational development, as part of the Socialist United States of Europe.
		Socialists must take an independent class viewpoint, and not be pushed into positions that defend the interests of one or another section of the capitalist class.
		However, it is necessary to link the general demands to a concrete programme of struggle against all attempts to put the burden of the crisis of capitalism on the shoulders of the working class, the old, the unemployed, the sick, the women and youth.
	www.newyouth.com /archives/westerneurope/a_socialist_alternative_to_the_e.html (21442 words)

	Australians say "no military solution"
		THE NEW York Socialist Alternative branch participated on 6 October in the largest anti-war rally in NYC since the Gulf war in 1991.
		Socialist Alternative members played a key role in building the student turn-out.
		Socialist Alternative members are building for a big campus demonstration on 24 October, aimed at developing a united effort of existing anti-war activists and integrating the many unorganised into concrete activities.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /2002/273/p3.htm (696 words)

	Why Australia is in East Timor
		DIANE FIELDES, a member of Socialist Alternative in Australia, explains why opponents of war and imperialism should oppose the Howard government’s “humanitarian” intervention in East Timor.
		Australia’s interests in the Pacific are primarily strategic.
		The vast majority of the political left in Australia (the left unions, the left of the Labor Party, the Greens, most of the socialist left) campaigned for the Australian government to invade another country.
	www.socialistworker.org /2006-1/592/592_07_EastTimor.shtml (1117 words)

	Imperialist of the South Pacific - Australia
		Australia might be a minor power on the world stage, but it is a regional imperialist power in its own right.
		Australia's history is a narrative of racist fear of the "yellow hordes" and recurring fears of "instability." From the earliest days of the British invasion, budding capitalists-insecure in a white colonial settler state so close to Asia-were intent on expanding their control over the region to keep out potential rivals such as France and Germany.
		Australia has always participated in the wars of Britain and, since 1945, the wars of the U.S. as well, and has often been more hawkish than the superpower.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Islands/Imperialist_SouthPacific.html (1451 words)

	Socialist Alternative (Australia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Socialist Alternative was heavily involved in the protest movement against Israeli attacks in Lebanon in July-August 2006.
		Socialist Alternative was a primarily Melbourne-based group up until around 2003, when it experienced an organisationally significant growth in membership across Australia.
		Socialist Alternative analyses the world in terms of the political and economic ideas of Karl Marx, the 19th century philosopher who argued that history was underpinned by economic sytems (the 'base' or 'structure') which drove changes in political ideas and institutions('the superstructure'), which in turn resulted in replacements of one economic system for another.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Alternative_(Australia) (1525 words)

	Socialist Alternative (Australia) biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Socialist Alternative is a Trotskyist group in Australia.
		This group is was formed by a split from the International Socialist Organisation in 1995.
		While not a member of the International Socialist Tendency, SA remains commited to the ideas and positions associated with the International Socialism tradition of Trotskyism.
	www.biography.ms /Socialist_Alternative_(Australia).html (176 words)

	State of the left in Australia
		ISO(International Socialist Organisation) and SA (Socialist Alternative) In terms of real, active membership, SA is probably bigger than the ISO in Melbourne.
		The left in Australia I would assert can be divided into the "vanguardist" and loosely organised left.The vanguardist left encompasses the organisations such as the DSP, ISO and Socialist Alternative, Militant, and a number of grouplets such as Socialist Party,and formations emanating from the maoist tradition,and on the periphery some anarchist groups.
		A friend of mine was expelled in the early 80's while on a party school because she would not move out of a house in which a person who had previously been expelled lived.
	www.marxmail.org /archives/june98/australia.htm (2991 words)

	The socialist alternative in the 2004 Australian election Support the Socialist Equality Party campaign
		That is why the Socialist Equality Party unequivocally opposes Canberra’s neo-colonial interventions and demands the immediate withdrawal of all Australian and foreign troops and police from East Timor, the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in the region.
		In light of the long history of political surveillance, harassment and provocation of political opponents—particularly socialists and communists—by the state, this amounts to a flagrant attack on the democratic rights of minor political parties and their members and election candidates, as well as on those who wish to vote for them.
		The Socialist Equality Party is fighting to initiate a new mass political movement for a socialist alternative.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/sep2004/sepe-s06.shtml (10804 words)

	Infoshop News - Australia: Socialist Alternative secret documents leaked for your amusement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The DSP in Australia, which is part of the Socialist Alternative, has been engaging in revisionist history in the pages of their magazine, Resistance, about the nature of the anti-globalization movement.
		socialist alternative is a group in itself and not part of the dsp.
		the socialist alliance is a group of approx 15 minor socialist organisation, inscluding the DSP and socialist alternative perhaps.
	www.infoshop.org /inews/article.php?story=01/07/08/7724167 (1485 words)

	Google Directory - Society > Politics > Socialism > Organizations
		Publishers of "Justice" a newspaper for "Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism," Socialist Alternative is a Marxist tendency active in the Labor Party and in the trade union and student movements among others.
		Internal documents from the conflict between the Socialist Workers Party and the International Socialist Organization as well as from various internal conflicts within the SWP and other IS tendency groups.
		While in general sympathy with the Socialist Workers Party (Britain) the ISO is not part of the International Socialist Tendency having been expelled.
	www.bush2004.com /directory/politics/Socialism/Organizations (1798 words)

	Socialist Equality Party stands in Australian by-election Support the socialist alternative in Werriwa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Socialist Equality Party (Australia) calls on all working people, students, unemployed and retirees to support our campaign for the March 19 by-election in the federal seat of Werriwa.
		In Australia, thanks to the ALP, Howard was able to secure a larger parliamentary majority and take control of the Senate for the first time, giving the government unchecked legislative power.
		The resources and technology of the advanced industrialised countries should be employed, not to oppress and exploit the people of the “Third World” but to raise living standards for all working people to a decent level and create, for the first time in world history, conditions of genuine social equality.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/feb2005/sep-f25.shtml (4014 words)

	The Socialist Issue 235
		We need to lay the basis for mass socialist parties that will enable working class people to get rid of capitalism world-wide and replace it with a system that will provide everyone with the necessities of life and the chance for a decent future.
		A socialist government that repudiated the foreign debt, nationalised major industries and ended the power of the ruling class would have not only begun the process of improving living standards but also acted as a beacon of hope throughout the capitalist blighted continent.
		As a Kashmiri socialist recently explained (Socialism Today, July/August 2001): "The only durable solution to the madness of war hanging over the masses of the subcontinent, the poverty, hunger, disease, and oppression, is to overthrow capitalism and feudalism.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /TheSocialistIssue235.htm (6588 words)

	Imagining Australia: Ideas For Our Future : The Workers, United, Will Never Be Defeated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nearly seventeen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Melbourne University has the Socialist club (of said newspaper), the Socialist Workers' club, and the Socialist Alternative club (despite the name, it does not appear to be offering an alternative to socialism).
		I think that Socialist Alternative is an electoral grouping of Socialist Worker and the DSP - they run in elections (eg in inner Sydney).
		In her first comment, Sacha confuses the Socialist Alternative (which split from the ISO) with the DSP/ISO Socialist Alliance (which follows a UK model that achieved slight electoral success).
	imaginingaustralia.blogs.com /imagining/2006/02/the_workers_uni.html (995 words)

	International Socialist Organisation
		For example, in 1995 the SWP CC prompted the National Committee of the Australian International Socialist Organisation to expel the political leadership of the ISO in Melbourne which resulted in over 1/3 of the national membership leaving in protest to form Socialist Alternative.
		Since no socialist organisation can be built in the long term in the absence of an independent Marxist analysis of the concrete conditions prevailing in the particular society in which that organisation is operating, they are thereby condemning themselves to a future of stagnation and/or decline.
		In our case, we have for the past three years maintained a sisterly relationship with Socialist Alternative in Australia which also operates on the basis of the politics of the IS tradition, while not being formally recognised by the SWP CC as part of the IST.
	www.angelfire.com /journal/iso/isonz.htm (2274 words)

	Democratic Socialist Party - Home Page
		The idea would be that the Socialist Alliance is more than just an electoral alliance, and should move in the direction of becoming a united socialist party, along the lines of the successful Scottish Socialist Party.
		The socialist youth organisation that is in political solidarity with the DSP.
		Union activists around Australia launched UACT to unite and mobilise worker activists in a campaign against the global system that institutionalises massive wealth for the tiny few and inequality and poverty for the overwhelming majority.
	www.dsp.org.au /dsphome.htm (2138 words)

	Socialist Alliance founding conference
		The Socialist Alliance also differs from previous left electoral alliances in that it is based on the understanding that a serious socialist electoral alternative needs to support, and help foment, resistance against the racist, anti-worker and pro-rich policies of the major parties.
		The Socialist Alliance's emphasis on building active resistance against the system is underlined by the fact that the two founding parties of the alliance, the DSP and the ISO, were central to the success of the S11 protests against the World Economic Forum in 2000 and other anti-corporate protests.
		Whether or not the Socialist Alliance should support unions disaffiliating from the ALP is still highly contentious among members of the alliance.
	www.socialist-alliance.org /conf/2001_8/glw.shtml (1721 words)

	Socialist in Australia
		This Socialist Alternative appears to be either the IS group or a split from it.
		The CWI Socialist Alternative group is in New Zealand not Aus. One interesting quote which provides a useful check list of 'how I know when there is a problem'.
		Socialist Alternative was getting nearly big enough to rival the Socialist Alliance, even though it wasn't a part of it, until it split.
	www.indymedia.ie /atomfullposts?story_id=66315 (1862 words)

	International
		The Socialist Party is affiliated to the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI).
		Socialist news and analysis of events from around the world.
		The Socialist Party Wales/Plaid Sosialaidd Cymru is the Welsh section of the CWI.
	www.socialistparty.net /international.htm (223 words)

	Australia: Joe Higgins visit to Australia a great success
		The highlights for Joe were the Socialist Party National Conference (see separate report), the 350-strong delegates meeting of the NSW National Union of Workers, the site meetings in Melbourne at the massive Eureka job of 500 workers, and the Southern Cross job of 350 workers.
		He outlined the upturn in the economy had left millions behind and millions of others worked longer hours and were heavily in debt.
		After lunch, Irish Socialist Party MP Joe Higgins spoke to over 100 people and outlined the struggles of the Irish working class, the socialist alternative to capitalism, and the inspiring work of the Socialist Party in Ireland.
	www.socialistworld.net /eng/2004/08/25australia.html (521 words)

	Socialist Equality Party (Australia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Socialist Equality Party calls on all working people, students, unemployed and retirees to support our campaign for the March 19 by-election in the federal seat of Werriwa.
		He joined the Socialist Labour League (SLL), the predecessor to the SEP, in 1975.
		Married with three children, he currently lectures in law at the University of Western Sydney and is a regular contributor to the World Socialist Web Site on Australian and international politics.
	www.sep.org.au (252 words)

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