Peter Boyle

  • War fans racism

    Move over Pauline Hanson, you've been replaced by an aggressive army of professional word-spinners who easily out-offend, out-vilify and out-incite you. They'll do fine service selling the Howard government's next war moves and

  • Democratic Socialist Party holds final congress

    At its 21st Congress, held December 27-30, the Democratic Socialist Party changed its name to the "Democratic Socialist Perspective" and reorganised itself as a political tendency in the Socialist Alliance. Only Socialist Alliance

  • A snake oil merchant makes ALP chief

    Mark Latham began his final run for the leadership with his September 20 "Light on the Hill" lecture in Bathurst. It was his second leadership-bid speech in six months thinly disguised as a declaration of loyalty to the serially

  • Labor's deckchair shift cannot hide its bankruptcy

    Simon Crean has gone, but is his replacement any better? The answer was a foregone conclusion even before the December 2 Labor caucus vote. The main options delivered by ALP powerbrokers are: Kim "Bomber" Beazley, Mark

  • The South in our North

    At its annual general meeting on October 30, Kerry and James Packer's PBL company announced it had paid $3.4 billion in bonuses to its executives. But while the greedy scum that run PBL stack away their coins, other Australians are

  • 'Make love not war'

    Helen Jarvis, then a student at the Australian National University (ANU), was one of the Canberra protesters who turned out to protest against the October 1966 visit of US President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ). "It was at night,

  • The real leadership crisis

    Mr B or Mr C? Who has more personality? Better leadership style? Better policies? Does the broader fellow offer a smaller target to PM John Howard — and should he? Does the robot impersonator really have the "ticker"? Will it make

  • Multi-tendency rights protected in Socialist Alliance

    The Socialist Alliance is a multi-tendency socialist party which welcomes and protects the right to campaign for a diversity of political positions within the framework of its broad socialist objectives. The second national

  • Socialist Alliance debates perspectives

    Two questions dominated the May 10-11 second national conference of the Socialist Alliance: What space is there for an explicitly socialist party in Australian politics today and what program and focus should the alliance adopt to

  • Socialist Alliance takes a new step for left unity

    MELBOURNE — On May 10, delegates to the second national conference of the Socialist Alliance decided by a 75% majority vote to move the alliance toward becoming a united, multi-tendency socialist party. The conference supported