Category Archives: Trot Guide

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Refuse Resist Regroup!

Posted on January 2, 2009 by @ndy

Damn! It never rains, it pours. I only just remembered to blog about Trotskyist Platform (a split from the Sparts / International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist)) in Australia when — Happy New Year! — a new split emerges in the … Continue reading →

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“All Aboard! Bolshevik Revolution leaving Trotskyist Platform at 19:17!” Toot toot!

Posted on December 30, 2008 by @ndy

Awesome. It’s been six months since I updated the Trot Guide, and six months is a long time in Trotskyist politics. Well… kinda. Anyway, point is, in May I wrote: 29 1/2) Trotskyist Platform (TP). Status : TP formed in … Continue reading →

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International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) on callous and brutal police

Posted on December 19, 2008 by @ndy

Australia: Police gun down 15-year-old boy Katrina Morrison wsws.org December 17, 2008 Fifteen-year-old Tyler Cassidy was shot dead by police officers in Melbourne, Victoria last Thursday night in a callous and brutal act. Four officers surrounded the agitated youth at … Continue reading →

Posted in State / Politics, Trot Guide | 4 Comments

Dancing lessons

Posted on December 11, 2008 by @ndy

In the interests of Leftist trainspotting, I thought I may as well survey the Trotskyist press to see what it has to say about those crazy Greeks. In Australia, the only weekly Trot paper is the Green Left Weekly: unfortunately, … Continue reading →

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Amanda is in your extended network

Posted on December 7, 2008 by @ndy

Infoshop — in addition to a range of other sources — has published an interesting exposure of a number of police agents and informants who infiltrated the RNC Welcoming Committee, beginning in 2007. As a result of their testimony, eight … Continue reading →

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Victorian local council election results (far left and far right)

Posted on November 30, 2008 by @ndy

How excitement! LEFT Initial results indicate that the people of Queenscliffe are not allying themselves with socialism, SA candidate Chris Johnson coming last of nine candidates with 102 votes. In Maribyrnong (Stony Creek Ward), SA candidate Stuart Martin got 811 … Continue reading →

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RAM, Respect & the Socialist Alliance

Posted on November 11, 2008 by @ndy

New Zealand: Broad left party strides ahead Peter Robson links.org.au May 17, 2008 The Residents’ Action Movement has been growing rapidly in the last month (with around 100-300 people joining per week) as a result of the popularity of their … Continue reading →

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Comrade Loulou and the Fun Factory

Posted on November 9, 2008 by @ndy

Chapter One: Introduction Somewhere on the outskirts, between Stalinville and Mao Valley, there is a special place in hell reserved for Enver Hoxha. It’s not exactly prime real estate, to be sure. He has a modest house there, perhaps a … Continue reading →

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Victorian local council elections : far left and far right

Posted on November 9, 2008 by @ndy

Citizens in the state of Victoria are scheduled to vote in their local council elections on Saturday, November 29. (Actually, only about half of those entitled to vote usually bother doing so.) This is democracy in/action, and a small number … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-fascism, State / Politics, Trot Guide | 8 Comments

Anarchists in the Gulag…

Posted on October 11, 2008 by @ndy

The Kate Sharpley Library are pleased to announce two new publications dealing with Bolshevik repression of Anarchists: An eyewitness account of the 1921 hunger strike in Moscow; and a special double issue of “KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library”, … Continue reading →

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