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Tag Archives: Socialist Alternative
Is Socialist Alternative a political cult?
A critic sent me the above image to accompany the launch of a new fortnightly newspaper, Red Flag. Produced by Socialist Alternative, “a revolutionary Marxist organisation” (with many hundreds of members it is, perhaps, apart from Socialist Alliance, the largest … Continue reading
Posted in State / Politics, Student movement, Trot Guide
Tagged Dennis Tourish, political cults, Socialist Alternative
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Why I’m NOT joining Socialist Alternative [Foreword]
An innocuous building for so monumental a task! behind iron gates & anonymous windows technicians in white smocks toil like busy little bees investigating in electromicroscopic detail the vinegrated cerebrums of late soviet luminaries to determine what made their heads … Continue reading
Posted in History, Poetry, State / Politics, Student movement, Trot Guide
Tagged Jon Hillson, Lenin, Lenin's bRanes, Room 19, Socialist Alternative, Trot Guide
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Left Unity (You Are My Destiny) [Trot Guide December 2012 Update]
Clenched fist salute to Axeris; here are some links to blah blah blah about unity (RSP+SAlt=SAlt) on the Australian (Marxist) left. Note that at their weekend conference, SAlt agreed that the RSP was tops and could totally join them. • … Continue reading
Jill Meagher, Reclaim the Night, the political right and Socialist Alternative
Recently (November 22), ‘Socialist Alternative’ published an article by Louise O’Shea titled ‘Jill Meagher, Reclaim the Night and the political right’. The article attempts to mount an argument, seemingly directed at other segments of the Australian left, regarding the public … Continue reading
a few notes on things
not really a post so much as a note to self: a SAlt member has written an article examining the public reaction to the rape and murder of jill meagher in melbourne in september. it’s a bit controversial. according to … Continue reading
Posted in !nataS, Death, Media, Sex & Sexuality, State / Politics, Student movement, Trot Guide
Tagged Socialist Alternative
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Fast Times at Trotsky High : RSP, SA & SAlt
Presumably stung into action by Socialist Alternative’s publication (September 25) of a love letter (September 15) from Socialist Alliance, the Revolutionary Socialist Party has hit back (October 2) with a tawdry letter of its own, one which suggests that things … Continue reading
Labor Lefty Lindsay Tanner Socialist Alliance Alternative Anarchy Situations
0. A slightly random assortment of links and lamentations partly prompted by Landeryou labelling this blog as lefty inre Gerry Hand (and Lindsay Tanner). 1. “[Lindsay Tanner’s] predecessor in the federal seat of Melbourne, Gerry Hand, spent decades denouncing Indonesia … Continue reading
Bad News for Spotters : RSP and SAlt to merge?
This is what happens when I’m not paying attention. Barely have I recovered from the fact that a card-carrying Communist has been elected to local council in Sydney when I discover that the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), born in 2008 … Continue reading