{"id":336,"date":"2006-08-02T18:25:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T08:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?page_id=336"},"modified":"2025-07-25T21:17:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:17:39","slug":"trot-guide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?page_id=336","title":{"rendered":"Trot Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update<\/strong> (July 2025) : Trot Guide July 2025 Update<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong> (January 2023) : Trot Guide January 2023 Update<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong> (February 2022) : Trot Guide February 2022 Update<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong> (May 2020) : Trot Guide May 2020 Update<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong> (April 2019) : The Far Left ~versus~ 2019 Australian federal election (April 2019 Trot Guide Update)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong> (September 2018) : Trot Guide September 2018 Update<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong> (April 2016) : #TrotGuide 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong> (April 2012) : 2012 Trot Guide available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Racing!<\/em><\/p>\n

slackbastard’s Trot Guide<\/strong> is an overview of the current state-of-play on the Australian far left. Thus it includes groupuscules<\/em> that consider themselves Trotskyist (‘Trots’) as well as those who do not.<\/p>\n

The Guide was last updated on December 21, 2009 — and prior to that, on July 11, 2009<\/a> — at which point, sadly, there had been a number of late scratchings. Thus, in May 2008 there were approximately 30 or so ‘leftist’ (Marxist) groups \/ parties in existence (although truth be told some were little more than some bloke and his dog, neither of whom were in particularly good health). This represented a further decline in numbers from a previous survey conducted in August 2006.<\/p>\n