Category Archives: Student movement

Is Socialist Alternative a political cult?

Posted on June 14, 2013 by @ndy

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 →

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#occupygezi et cetera

Posted on June 2, 2013 by @ndy

See also : What is Happenning in Istanbul?, tarihinde yayımlandı, June 1, 2013 | www.whatishappeninginistanbul.com. source : #occupygezipics Interesting times in Istanbul. The protests appear to be growing, but who knows where they’re going. I’m not sure what are the … Continue reading →

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#studentstrike #brokenleg #solidarity #usyd

Posted on May 14, 2013 by @ndy

Around Australia, thousands of students (seemingly concentrated in Melbourne and Sydney) went on strike and rallied and marched today, in protest at the cuts ($2.3 billion) by the Federal government to the tertiary education sector. Their protests will of course … Continue reading →

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Trouble at Historical Materialism Conference Mill : Call for Solidarity

Posted on April 24, 2013 by @ndy

As leftist trainspotters and ‘revolutionary socialists’ generally would be aware, the Socialist Workers Party‘s poor handling of a rape allegation has had serious ramifications for the party’s public standing: this has included its relations with aligned parties elsewhere in the … Continue reading →

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Why I’m NOT joining Socialist Alternative [Foreword]

Posted on April 15, 2013 by @ndy

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 →

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Students are STILL revolting//The Mad Monk & SPARTA (Defend North Korean Deformed Workers State!)

Posted on December 15, 2012 by @ndy

The Spartacists rejected the claim. Awesome! Courtesy of AA, I’ve discovered that one of my favourite Tory ex-student politicians/Victorian Liberal Party powerbroker, Michael Kroger, is a leftist trainspotter! The Man About Town has been gracing the pages of Uncle Rupert‘s … Continue reading →

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Jill Meagher, Reclaim the Night, the political right and Socialist Alternative

Posted on December 3, 2012 by @ndy

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 →

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a few notes on things

Posted on November 30, 2012 by @ndy

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 →

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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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Students eh?

Posted on August 31, 2012 by @ndy

EduFactory! is a grassroots, student-run education conference being held on Ngunnawal country in Canberra at the Australian National University from September 29 – October 1, 2012 | The 2012 Strike in Québec: Full Report, crimethInc, August 14, 2012 | Crisis … Continue reading →

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