Category Archives: Trot Guide

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into my arms, oh bored, into my arms // what is to be undone?

Posted on April 23, 2006 by @ndy

I stumbled across the following passage, taken from an otherwise unremarkable resignation letter written by a small group of Trotskyists, and thought it deserved some sort of a reply. That — and reading a post by a soon-to-be-unemployed blogger — … Continue reading →

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2006 Trot Guide Update #3.0

Posted on March 21, 2006 by @ndy

Following John Tattersall‘s ignominious defeat in the Victoria park by-election, there’s more bad news for the Socialist Alliance: on March 18 there was an election in South Australia, for the seat of Port Adelaide. At a time when disgust and … Continue reading →

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Dude, where’s my student union?

Posted on March 20, 2006 by @ndy

It’s interesting times for the Australian student movement. Following a spectacularly unsuccessful campaign to prevent the Federal Government (with the critical support of Family First Senator Steve Fielding) from introducing Voluntary Student Unionism (VSU) legislation, student unions, from the peak … Continue reading →

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2006 Ex-Trot Guide: Not. Funny. Luke.

Posted on March 17, 2006 by @ndy

Recently, Luke Fomiatti has gotten himself into a spot of bother over a botched attempt at ‘humour’: Uni newspaper calls Jews ‘bloodsuckers’. Ooops. THE University of Western Sydney has been enveloped in a race row over a student newspaper article … Continue reading →

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2006 Trot Guide Update #2.5

Posted on March 15, 2006 by @ndy

“There was a famous jockey that never lost a race. When asked how he achieved this, he replied, ‘I whisper in the horse’s ear: Roses are red, violets are blue. Horses that lose are made into glue.’” In which case, … Continue reading →

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Burn baby burn?

Posted on February 26, 2006 by @ndy

Recently, left-wing ALP maverick Bob Gould has weighed in on the subject of the DSP/Resistance and the burning of flags. From Bob the (Socialist Movement) Builder’s perspective, “It would be easy to dismiss this initiative as a dopey student prank, … Continue reading →

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To burn or not to burn, that is the question

Posted on February 23, 2006 by @ndy

OK, so the antiwar movement may not have quite turned out to be the wild-orgasm-of-anarchists-sweeping-across-the-country-like-a-prairie-fire all right-thinking, political moderates such as myself were hoping for, but… Heated debate has erupted on University campuses. Well, kinda. Yesterday a few people shouted … Continue reading →

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Mate, this ideology wouldn’t go “voom” if you put four million volts through it!

Posted on February 19, 2006 by @ndy

‘Communism bad, capitalism good’ is an old joke. Here’s another: “What’s the difference between capitalism and communism?” “I don’t know, what is the difference between capitalism and communism?” “Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Communism is the reverse.” … Continue reading →

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Burn-A-Flag-For-Lenin Week!

Posted on February 18, 2006 by @ndy

Confronted with a recent and continuing downturn in membership, the youth wing of the neo-Trotskyist Democratic Socialist Perspective appears to have hit upon a brand new (sic) idea to try and reverse the trend (or at least make a few … Continue reading →

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Lenin vs Revolution

Posted on February 11, 2006 by @ndy

I recently stumbled across a blog heavy on Lenin and light on revolution. It made me think. ‘What a load of shit’, to be precise. So here’s another, more critical perspective on Lenin. Oh alright; it’s an anti-Leninist rant by … Continue reading →

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