BY MARIA VOUKELATOS
SYDNEY Coming hard on the heels of launches of local Socialist Alliance groups across the city, 25 students at Sydney University gathered on May 23 to launch the alliance on their campus.
Student activist Dom Rowe, a former state president of the National Union of Students and a one-time member of the Australian Labor Party, said that the Socialist Alliance was so exciting because it can deliver what the Liberal and Labor parties cannot.
The Socialist Alliance's politics are centred on fighting for the same things that protests at S11 and M1 did, the interests of the majority of people, who are marginalised by the interests of big business and the major parties, she told the meeting.
Dick Nichols, an acting convenor of the alliance, described how the coalition of nine socialist parties and similar formations overseas were bringing socialism out of the gutter. He said these alliances were increasingly attracting workers, including some trade unions.
Members of the Socialist Alliance on Sydney University are holding regular campaigning stalls on Wednesdays from 12-2pm outside Fisher Library. To join or get involved in building the Socialist Alliance and broader campaigns on Sydney University, call Maria on (02) 9690 1977.