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The Socialist Equality Group’s meeting, held to launch the book <em>Pike River: The Crime and Cover-up</em>, was addressed by author Tom Peters, Bernie Monk, whose son died in the mine disaster, Australian WSWS writer Terry Cook, and Malcolm Bray, a former mineworker from the UK.
While the NTEU’s political ban was directed against a Socialist Equality Party member, who was on strike himself, it set a precedent for use against any striking academic or staff member who opposes the union’s sellouts.
The censorship was aimed at preventing any exposure of the National Tertiary Education Union’s role in enforcing sweeping attacks on the jobs and conditions of academics and university staff.
The Socialist Equality Party is standing Senate teams in three states in order to present a genuine socialist alternative to the broadest possible audience, and prepare for the convulsive working-class struggles ahead.
“I used to vote for major parties, but what you put forward is a good program.”