{"id":32549,"date":"2012-09-26T22:11:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T12:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=32549"},"modified":"2012-09-26T22:11:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T12:11:21","slug":"labor-lefty-lindsay-tanner-socialist-alliance-alternative-anarchy-situations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=32549","title":{"rendered":"Labor Lefty Lindsay Tanner Socialist Alliance Alternative Anarchy Situations"},"content":{"rendered":"

0<\/strong>. A slightly random assortment of links and lamentations partly prompted by Landeryou labelling this blog as lefty<\/a> inre Gerry Hand (and Lindsay Tanner).<\/p>\n

1<\/strong>. “[Lindsay Tanner’s] predecessor in the federal seat of Melbourne, Gerry Hand, spent decades denouncing Indonesia for the unpleasantness perpetrated against East Timor. Shortly after he left ministerial service, he was involved in creating a casino with an Indonesian billionaire with very close ties to Indonesian generals and the Presidential family. Lefty websites claim<\/a> he was also involved in \u2013 shock, horror \u2013 coal mining.”<\/p>\n

The shock, horror is compounded in this case by archive.org, which explains of http:\/\/www.greatearthltd.com: Hrm. Wayback Machine doesn’t have that page archived.<\/em> Of course, Lindsay’s revelation that a big legged woman<\/strike> Modern Labor ain’t got no soul ain’t all that newsy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2<\/strong>. Strike a light! No sooner had I discovered that the Revolutionary Socialist Party is madly flirting with Socialist Alternative than a jealous rival for SAlt’s affections emerges: Socialist Alliance.<\/p>\n

Dear Comrades<\/p>\n

We are writing on behalf of the Socialist Alliance national executive to request discussions with your leadership to explore possibilities for closer cooperation and unity. Our national executive met on September 14 and agreed on sending this letter…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Blah blah blah.<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s been an interesting decade for the remnants of the Fourth International’s followers in Australia but by avoiding, if not initially, the electoral trap set by the DSP for the ISO in 2001, SAlt has emerged a decade later in a much stronger position than its chief ideological rival Solidarity, and much better able to recruit yoof, especially on campus, than SA’s yoof wing Resistance.<\/p>\n

See also<\/em> : Bad News for Spotters : RSP and SAlt to merge?<\/a> (September 18, 2012) | (On SWP\/DSP<\/a> history<\/a>) In Reply to Peter Boyle, by Barry Sheppard<\/a>, SWP History: 1960-1988, August 26, 2012.<\/p>\n

3<\/strong>. How these people propose to run a factory, work a railway or steer a ship without having in the last resort one deciding will, without a unified direction, they do not indeed tell us.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n