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Video: Sydney's Kurdish community celebrates International Women's Day

Peter Boyle — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 11:45:00 +1100

Sydney's Kurdish community celebrated International Women's Day at a well-attended gathering at the Democratic Kurdish Community Centre in Kings Park. Peter Boyle reports.

World Kobane Day marked in Sydney

Peter Boyle — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 15:00:00 +1100

Supporters of the struggle for peace, democracy and women’s rights in Kobane, Rojava, gathered to mark World Kobane Day. Peter Boyle reports.

Pandemic reprieve for Willow Grove demolition, Green Ban remains

Susan Price — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 12:15:00 +1000

Defenders of the historic Willow Grove are disappointed with the NSW Supreme Court’s decision to give the go-ahead to its destruction. But Susan Price reports they are determined to fight on.

Willow Grove green ban defended

Susan Price — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:30:00 +1000

More than 150 workers, students and residents picketed entrances to Parramatta’s historic Willow Grove on June 22, reports Susan Price.

Legal challenge lost, campaign to save Willow Grove continues

Susan Price — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 12:15:00 +1000

The North Parramatta Residents Action Group has vowed to continue the campaign to save Willow Grove from being destroyed. Susan Price reports.

Campaign to save historic Willow Grove enters new phase

Susan Price — Tue, 18 May 2021 11:15:00 +1000

The campaign to save historic Willow Grove in Parramatta from being torn down to make way for the new museum is ramping up, writes Susan Price.

Community ticket to contest local government election in Parramatta

Kerry Smith — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:45:00 +1100

A new ticket, Community Need Not Corporate Greed, will field a team in the Parramatta local government election, writes Kerry Smith.

NSW government green-lights museum construction

Susan Price — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 16:30:00 +1100

NSW planning minister Rob Stokes has got a fight on his hands from those who don't agree the historic Willow Grove villa needs to make way for a new museum, writes Susan Price.

Facebook ban makes supporting independent media even more important

Pip Hinman — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 12:45:00 +1100

�鶹ӳ�� is one of the many independent outlets that have become collateral damage in the power struggle between old and new media oligarchs, argue Pip Hinman and Susan Price.

Become a part of �鶹ӳ�� in 2021

Susan Price — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 14:30:00 +1100

Thanks to all of �鶹ӳ��'s supporters; we wouldn't have done it without you, write Susan Price and Pip Hinman.

Extraordinary rise in NSW police strip searches

Rachel Evans — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:00:00 +1000

The number of strip searches carried out by NSW police has risen almost 20-fold in less than 12 years, with young people being the main targets, a new report has found.

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Susan Price — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 12:00:00 +1000

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Rojava Revolution celebrated in Sydney

Kerry Smith — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 14:45:00 +1000

Kurdish community members and supporters gathered on July 27 to celebrate the 7^th anniversary of the Rojava Revolution in northern Syria.

Put people before profits this federal election

Pip Hinman — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 16:45:00 +1000

Socialist candidates are campaigning in the May 18 federal elections to put forward solutions to the growing wealth divide and looming environmental crisis.

Labor's failure to offer alternatives lost it the NSW election

Pip Hinman — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:45:00 +1100

NSW Labor lost the March 23 state election with its small-target strategy, its refusal to challenge the privatisation agenda and its sly accommodation to racism.

Socialist candidate: ‘Organised people are a force for change’

Jim McIlroy — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +1100

Susan Price is the Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of Parramatta in the March 23 NSW state election. She has been an active unionist and socialist for more than 20 years. �鶹ӳ�� Weekly’s Jim McIlroy asked Price about the Socialist Alliance election campaign, its aims and policies.

We need kids, families and all refugees out of detention

Susan Price — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 17:15:00 +1100

Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s “I stopped these [boats]” desk trophy is symbolic of his government’s callous disregard for human rights. But you can be sure that Morrison won’t be stopping the Nauruan government from kicking Mؘédicins Sans Frontières (MSF/Doctors Without Borders) off Nauru.

Within days of Nauru’s decision that MSF’s mental health services would “no longer be required”, news came through that an Iranian detainee on Nauru had self-harmed by swallowing washing powder.

Community power can defeat NSW govt

Jim McIlroy — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:45:00 +1000

The NSW government looks to be on the skids after a 30% swing against the Liberals in the September 8 byelection in the rural seat of Wagga Wagga. Independent Joe McGirr won the seat which had been a Liberal stronghold for 61 years.

NSW needs a radical shift away from corporate rule

Kerry Smith — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:30:00 +1000

The Socialist Alliance will contest the NSW state election, to be held in March next year. The Alliance’s ticket for the Legislative Council is made up of 18 activists from across the state. It has also preselected Susan Price to stand in the Legislative Assembly seat of Parramatta.

WestConnex sale ‘biggest misuse of public funds’

Jim McIlroy — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:45:00 +1000

The WestConnex privatisation “involves arguably the biggest misuse of public funds for corporate gain in Australian history”, Sydney University transport analyst Chris Standen wrote on September 3.

Standen was commenting on the August 31 announcement by the New South Wales Coalition government that it was selling off 51% of the controversial WestConnex tollway complex to a Transurban-led consortium for $9.3 billion.

Corporate tax cuts defeated — for now

Jim McIlroy — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 12:45:00 +1000

Amid the chaos of #libspill, the Coalition government's signature plan to cut the big business tax rate from 30 to 25% for companies with turnover above $50 million was blocked in the Senate on August 22. The vote was 36 to 30.

Worst drought in living memory – just don’t mention climate change

Susan Price — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 17:15:00 +1000

New South Wales is now officially in drought and parts of Queensland have been in continuous drought for years. But the climate denier federal government has its head in the sand.

ASIC is part of the banking problem, not solution

Jim McIlroy — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 16:45:00 +1000

The Finance Sector Union has slammed a plan to "embed" financial regulatory agency officers inside the Big Four banks and the financial management giant AMP. The FSU says that officers from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), which has been criticised for being “too close to the banks”, would be unable to penetrate the unethical internal culture of the banks.

Bank scandals fuel calls for radical new system

Jim McIlroy — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:45:00 +1000

The mounting scandals being revealed by the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry highlight the need for a comprehensive and radical solution to the crisis in the banking system.

The Big Four banks must be nationalised so people can take back their stolen wealth and a new public banking system must be created under democratic community control.

Socialists run for council with anti-corporate message

Peter Boyle — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +1000

The Socialist Alliance has announced three candidates for the Inner West Council elections to be held on September 9.

Pip Hinman will run in Stanmore, Susan Price will run in Ashfield and Blair Vidakovich in Leichhardt.

Socialist conference charts course in divided world

Pip Hinman — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 11:00:00 +1100

The 12^th Socialist Alliance national conference, held over January 20 to 22 at the Geelong Trades Hall, discussed the challenges facing the left and the state of the fightback against neoliberalism in Australia. It also adopted new policies and elected a new national executive.

ABCC’s revival is an attack on all working people

Susan Price — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 11:00:00 +1100

A cloud hangs over the annual picnic day for workers in the construction industry and their families, due to the passage of the bill to revive the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC).

Former Prime Minister John Howard’s Building Industry Taskforce was established in 2002 — a child of the Cole Royal Commission. The ABCC was established by the Howard government in 2005, once it had achieved a majority in the Senate.

Socialist Alliance election launch

Kathy Fairfax — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +1000

About 130 people attended the Socialist Alliance election launch in Sydney on April 15. The night launched the campaign to elect Peter Boyle in the seat of Sydney and the Senate team of Ken Canning, Susan Price, Sharlene Leroy-Dyer and Howard Byrnes. It was a very positive night with Aboriginal activists, unionists and activists signing on to the People's Movement.

What a just and fair NSW could look like

Susan Price — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 11:00:00 +1100

Blink and you might have missed it, but February 27 was the “Great Debate” between Luke Foley and Mike Baird. The media reported that Premier Baird handed Labor’s Foley his election slogan, because Baird has no plan B for infrastructure without the electricity sell-off to fund $20 billion in projects.

Reject NSW power sell-off: Socialist candidate

Jim McIlroy — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 11:00:00 +1100

"The people of NSW should rise up and reject the Baird government's plan to sell off the state's power industry, just as Queensland voters did last weekend," Susan Price, Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of Summer Hill in the March 28 NSW elections, said on February 5. "The massive rejection of Premier Campbell Newman and his Liberal-National Party (LNP) government in the Queensland state election on January 31 has been sheeted home by most commentators to the LNP's disastrous plan to privatise the state's publicly owned electricity industry.