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Current Issue - Volume 9, No 5, November 2009
Download pdf version for printingSEVENTH NATIONAL CONFERENCE
DISCUSSION
- Resolution on Afghanistan
- Resolution on child-care policy draft
- Ecosocialism: why we need it
- Assimilation is genocide
- Deadline for national conference resolutions and Alliance Voices
The November 19 meeting of the SA national executive set a deadline of midnight on December 15 for all submissions to Alliance Voices this year. This deadline will allow the comrades who produce the discussion bulletin to get the final pre-conference issue published before taking a break for Christmas. All draft resolutions for the Seventh na...
- Resolution on Afghanistan
By Trent Hawkins (Melbourne), Pip Hinman and Tony Iltis (Sydney) are presenting this policy draft for consideration at the 7th National Conference. We think that Socialist Alliance should formally adopt the position we have been campaigning on: to demand the Rudd ALP government withdraw the troops from Afghanistan.* Preamble: The Socialist A...
- Resolution on child-care policy draft
By Kerryn Williams, Sydney West Preamble: Over the past two decades, the childcare sector has become increasingly corporate-dominated. This shift began when in 1991 the federal Labor government ended public subsidies to non-profit childcare centres and instead began providing payments to individual parents to use at a childcare centre of their...
- Ecosocialism: why we need it
[The following article is based on a presentation by Aaron Roden of Sydney West Socialist Alliance.] Let’s start with the climate science. The CSIRO website offers some data. Over the past century the global average surface temperature has risen by 0.74 ºC. In Australia there has been a 0.9ºC warming since 1950. Average northern hemisphere temp...
- Assimilation is genocide
By Pat Eatock, Sydney Central [The following talk was given at the launch of The Aboriginal Struggle and the Left on November 22 in Sydney West. We are here to launch Terry Townsend’s book, Aboriginal Struggle and the Left. I may also refer sometimes to Socialist Alliance’s other recent publication, the policy document on Abori...
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