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Fast Times at Trotsky High : RSP, SA & SAlt

Posted on October 4, 2012 by @ndy

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 →

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Labor Lefty Lindsay Tanner Socialist Alliance Alternative Anarchy Situations

Posted on September 26, 2012 by @ndy

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 →

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Bad News for Spotters : RSP and SAlt to merge?

Posted on September 18, 2012 by @ndy

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 →

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Victory for Communism in Auburn!

Posted on September 14, 2012 by @ndy

Tony Oldfield will paint the town Red tonight! See also : Peter Boyle, Fourth socialist elected to a local council in Australia, Green Left Weekly, September 14, 2012.

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NSW local council election results : far left and far right (2012)

Posted on September 8, 2012 by @ndy

Update (September 17) : Huzzah! The Australia First Party (Penrith) and the Communist Party of Australia (Auburn) have both had members elected to council. Results are trickling in for the 2012 NSW local council elections. Thus far, the ‘mysterious’ Australia … Continue reading →

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#StrikeColes v.2.0 : NUW 1 Coles/Toll 1 (w/- BONUS! HSU & SDA & WTF &…)

Posted on July 28, 2012 by @ndy

NUW! The two-week long strike at the Coles/Toll warehouse and distribution centre ended on Monday with both Coles/Toll and the NUW declaring victory. Thus: In the end, the striking workers got most of what they had asked for. Their union … Continue reading →

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David North (ICFI) ~versus~ David Green (Grand River)

Posted on May 18, 2012 by @ndy

wsws.org is the online publication of the ICFI, the ‘International Committee of the Fourth International’. You may remember the ICFI from such rallies as took place in Melbourne in the early 1990s (when they were still known as the ‘Socialist … Continue reading →

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Trot Guide 2012

Posted on April 10, 2012 by @ndy

Due to popular demand, I thought it was about time I updated Trot Guide — “an overview of the current state-of-play on the Australian far left” — for the year 2012. In truth, there’s not a great deal to add … Continue reading →

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2012 Queensland State Election

Posted on March 25, 2012 by @ndy

For 120 years Labor has been the force of fairness, equality and reform in Australia. LOL. Unusually, newly-elected Campbell Newman “pledged last night his new, overwhelmingly powerful government would conduct itself with humility, grace and dignity” rather than pride, awkwardness … Continue reading →

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From #MTRsues to Joolya’s Shoe

Posted on January 27, 2012 by @ndy

I am sick. But not too sick to fail to appreciate the seamless transition from #MTRsues to #Joolya’s_shoe. Sue For better for worse, for richer or poorer (bleedin’ poorer that’s a fact), Jennifer Wilson has published extracts from the letter … Continue reading →

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