Bah humbug!<\/p>\n
In terrible news for trainspotters, there’s been a reconsolidation on the Trotskyist left in Australia<\/a>: the International Socialist Organisation (ISO), the Socialist Action Group (SAG) and Solidarity have agreed to join together in a new Party, imaginatively titled ‘Solidarity’ (in gross violation of The Art & Science of Socialist Party Building; see<\/em> HOW TO FORM YOUR OWN [SOCIALIST] POLITICAL PARTY: A BEGINNER’S GUIDE<\/a>).<\/p>\n Boo!<\/em><\/p>\n Here’s Bob the Bookseller (and Revolutionary Firebrand) with more:<\/p>\n Three groups in the International Socialists<\/a> tradition<\/a>, the International Socialist Organisation<\/a>, Solidarity (a group consisting [of] some people who split from the ISO and Socialist Alternative<\/a> a few years ago [2004]) and the Brisbane-based Socialist Action Group, which split from Socialist Alternative a few years ago [2004], unified at a conference on the weekend of February 2-3.<\/p>\n The united organisation will be known as Solidarity.<\/p>\n I\u2019m reliably informed that the conference proceeded in a serious way with little acrimony.<\/p>\n This reduces the number of IS-tradition groups in Australia to two: Solidarity and the extremely<\/a> propagandist<\/a> Socialist Alternative.<\/p>\n The general framework of the common orientation, which was the consensus of the conference, is based on electoral support for the Greens and then Labor under the preferential system and a broader united front tactic towards the ranks of the Greens, the trade unions and the Labor Party.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Boo!<\/em> I says, Boo!<\/em> I also asks myself, what does it mean? Primarily, that Socialist Alternative will now face some added competition, especially in Sydney and Brisbane (if not Melbourne, where the University of Melbourne remains a SAlt stronghold).<\/p>\n But for how much longer?<\/em><\/p>\n Bah humbug! In terrible news for trainspotters, there’s been a reconsolidation on the Trotskyist left in Australia: the International Socialist Organisation (ISO), the Socialist Action Group (SAG) and Solidarity have agreed to join together in a new Party, imaginatively titled … Continue reading RIP<\/a><\/strong> : Marxist Workers’ Group \/ Socialist Workers\u2019 Action Group (1972–1975) | International Socialists (1975–1990) | Socialist Action (1985–1990) | Socialist Action Group (2004–2008) | Solidarity (2004–2008)<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"