Huh. Marcia Langton Was A Communist. But the Communist League is not the Communist League. The Communist League explains:<\/p>\n
The [contemporary] Communist League was founded in 1989 as part of an international current sharing a course, and the Militant<\/a><\/em> newspaper, with the [US] Socialist Workers Party and its continuity in the struggle for a proletarian party. The earlier Communist League from 1972 to 1977 was a sympathising organisation of the then-Fourth International. Within that organisation, the first CL was not directly aligned with the SWP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So there you go.<\/p>\n
Otherwise, there’s been a ding-dong battle in the media between Marcia, Boris, Jon, Sarah, Germaine, Tom, Dick & Harry. Arena<\/em> magazine has compiled a range of opinion on recent debates — a product of Langton’s Boyer lectures — on their tumblr<\/a>; Langton’s criticisms of the left in particular find precedent in an Overland<\/em> lecture of 2001 [PDF<\/a>]; some of the most recent contributions to the debate are:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Why Aboriginal issues are no longer black or white<\/a>, Marcia Langton, The Age<\/em>, March 14, 2013: “Boris Frankel’s view of my work is 20 years out of date and reveals his ignorance.”
\n\u2022 Mining does not offer the answer to indigenous woes<\/a>, Boris Frankel, The Age<\/em>, March 12, 2013.
\n\u2022 Langton fires up at academic critics<\/a>, Russell Skelton, The Age<\/em>, March 9, 2013.
\n\u2022 Inequality gathers pace on board the gravy train<\/a>, Germaine Greer, The Age<\/em>, March 9, 2013.<\/p>\nSee also<\/em> : Would the real racists please stand up?<\/a> (February 27, 2013).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Huh. Marcia Langton Was A Communist. But the Communist League is not the Communist League. The Communist League explains: The [contemporary] Communist League was founded in 1989 as part of an international current sharing a course, and the Militant newspaper, … Continue reading