Posts Tagged ‘left’
December 13, 2011
A response to Max Lane
Max responded to my observations about the Labor Party conference, and particularly the decision on marriage equality, with two fairly long and thoughtful comments on organisation and the left that require a thoughtful response, which I will provide to the best of my ability.
But firstly, because this discussion began on the matter of Labor’s decision to support marriage equality, it is clear that this will now be an issue in the next federal election and it will be important to support any candidates, particularly Labor Party candidates, who come under attack because of their democratic stance.
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Tags:far left, Labor Party, left, marriage equality
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December 9, 2011
My prediction that the Labor Party conference would be received with a round of ritual moaning and whingeing on the far left has been largely confirmed, although a couple of people have accused me of dishonesty in saying that.
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Tags:far left, Greens, Labor Party, left
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February 17, 2008
Green Left Weekly, the DSP and this week’s developments in the labour and indigenous movements
Bob Gould
After a week of discussion and argument the issue of the DSP’s Green Left Weekly that went up on the web this evening is a breath of fresh air, up to a point, as is the linked Green Left discussion site.
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Tags:DSP, Green Left Weekly, left, socialism
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February 15, 2008
A bit of an alternative media survey
Ed Lewis
Reaction on left blogs and email lists is generally that the apology to indigenous Australia is a step forward but much more is needed, including compensation for the stolen generations, an end to the NT intervention in the brutal military form that it took under the Howard government (although direction of more resources to NT indigenous communities is welcome and urgently needed) and urgent progress on health, housing and education all over Australia.
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Tags:apology, indigenous, left
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February 14, 2008
The range of responses to yesterday’s Australia-wide outburst of emotion over the new government’s apology to indigenous Australia
Bob Gould
The most striking thing about the apology ceremonies was the extraordinary outburst of emotion throughout the day by tens of thousands of indigenous people watching the events at public venues from Hobart to Darwin, Broome, Cairns, Sydney, Perth and all places in between, and an equally emotional response from possibly hundreds of thousands of non-indigenous Australians.
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Tags:apology, DSP, indigenous, left
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February 10, 2008
A call to order
Bob Gould
In several biographies of Michael Collins it’s related that when the 500 or so republicans in Free State prisons during the civil war, some of whom were under sentence of death, heard that Collins had been killed by fellow republicans in an ambush, many wept, and they all knelt and said the rosary for his immortal soul.
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Tags:Ireland, left, Sinn Fein
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February 4, 2008
The life and times of Paddy McGuinness and Bob Gould
Bob Gould
I’ve crossed paths, and often swords, with P.P. McGuinness since we were precocious youths of 17 or so in the 1950s. We were both kids out of Catholic schools, me from the Christian Brothers College at Strathfield, St Patricks, and McGuinness from the Jesuit GPS school, St Ignatius at Riverview, a cut above St Pats, socially.
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Tags:left, McGuinness, neocon, Quadrant
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January 8, 2008
Not with a bang, but but with constitutional and personnel changes (with apologies to T.S. Elliott)
Bob Gould
As has been pretty obvious from the material posted on the web by supporters of the Boyle leadership, the DSP conference laid the basis for the expulsion of the minority in fairly short order.
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Tags:left, sectarianism, socialism, ultraleftism
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January 3, 2008
Bob Gould
First of all, to Luke himself. I’ve got nothing at all against you, Luke. Years ago at a demonstration you grumbled to me in a humorous way that I had kept you up half the night reading stuff that was on Ozleft. To anyone who writes, even for a small audience, the notion that anyone reacts is always flattering, so thanks for your interest.
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Tags:DSP, left, sectarianism, socialism
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January 3, 2008
By Bob Gould
I’ve just seen a very strange document, which has been sent out in the past week or so to all members of the Socialist Alliance. A friendly SA member gave me a copy because they think it’s so weird. It’s 17 pages of statistical charts about the Socialist Alliance.
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January 2, 2008
Bob Gould
The DSP is about to hold a decision-making conference on January 3-6. Delegates have been elected and the leadership has a majority a little larger than last time.
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Tags:DSP, left, socialism
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November 28, 2007
100,000 progressive Australians provide the push to sink the Howard government
Bob Gould
On November 24, about 100,000 campaigners from the left side of Australian society turned out nationally to staff about 6000 polling booths in 150 seats, providing the push necessary to sweep the Howard Tory government out of power.
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Tags:Elections, left, Rudd
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June 6, 2007
He was only doing his job, implies Sue Bolton and says Peter Murray
Bob Gould
Green Left discussion list, June 6, 2007
The unjustified pressure on Dean Mighell to resign from the Labor Party, and the media witch-hunt against unions, attempting to marginalise them in the Labor Party, bring into the light of day questions that should alarm everyone in the workers’, Labor and socialist movements.
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Tags:left, Socialist Alliance, unions
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