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2013 Australian federal election : FINAL results [LEFT/RIGHT]

Posted on October 2, 2013 by @ndy

The AEC has released the FINAL results for almost all the Lower House elections:– I’ve updated the results for (far) left and right candidates for the Australia First Party, Australian Protectionist Party, One Nation, Progressive Labour Party, Socialist Alliance, Socialist … Continue reading →

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Lenin At The 2013 Australian Federal Election

Posted on September 22, 2013 by @ndy

Last week I took a look at the election of September 7 and how the far right fared. While results have still to be finalised, here’s a brief account of the material verdict of history enacted upon the candidates for … Continue reading →

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Vote 1 Ron Poulsen for Australian Senate

Posted on August 20, 2013 by @ndy

BREAKING NEWS! In a move that has stunned many me, Ron Poulsen of the Communist League is running for the NSW Senate, NOT for the seat of Blaxland as many me expected. More news as it comes to hand. MORE … Continue reading →

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2013 Australian federal election : far right and far left

Posted on June 24, 2013 by @ndy

Another year, another election, and once again patriots and upright-citizens-with-lower-cognitive-abilities will be appealed to by the far right, while the far left pitch their message to that dreary tribe of high-minded women and sandal-wearers and bearded fruit-juice drinkers who come … Continue reading →

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Is Socialist Alternative a political cult?

Posted on June 14, 2013 by @ndy

A critic sent me the above image to accompany the launch of a new fortnightly newspaper, Red Flag. Produced by Socialist Alternative, “a revolutionary Marxist organisation” (with many hundreds of members it is, perhaps, apart from Socialist Alliance, the largest … Continue reading →

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Helen Razer on Teh Left and the stoopid : Crikey!

Posted on May 6, 2013 by @ndy

Yeah. I thought I might as well throw this up. It’s kinda wEiRd. I mean, who and what is Teh Left? Apparently, “people who like rainbow crossings, petitions at change.org, and People with a Disability”. Liberals, in other words. Has … Continue reading →

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Trouble at Historical Materialism Conference Mill : Call for Solidarity

Posted on April 24, 2013 by @ndy

As leftist trainspotters and ‘revolutionary socialists’ generally would be aware, the Socialist Workers Party‘s poor handling of a rape allegation has had serious ramifications for the party’s public standing: this has included its relations with aligned parties elsewhere in the … Continue reading →

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Why I’m NOT joining Socialist Alternative [Foreword]

Posted on April 15, 2013 by @ndy

An innocuous building for so monumental a task! behind iron gates & anonymous windows technicians in white smocks toil like busy little bees investigating in electromicroscopic detail the vinegrated cerebrums of late soviet luminaries to determine what made their heads … Continue reading →

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Solidarity with the “scrupulously fair” SWP

Posted on April 3, 2013 by @ndy

The rape scandal which has engulfed the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the UK appears to have left its local franchise Solidarity relatively untouched. Back in February, the party released the following statement in solidarity with the SWP. It describes … Continue reading →

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‘Left Unity’ or reshuffling the deck?

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Tim Anderson

[Tim Anderson has written some thoughts on the prospects for unity on the Australian left. I thought I may as well republish it here as it's of spotterly interest. See also : Left Unity (You Are My Destiny) [Trot Guide … Continue reading →

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