En Passant

Solidarity to those protesting in PNG against Rudd’s rotten racist reactionary refugee outrage from those protesting in Australia.

Activists have to grab the opportunity to draw in new layers of people who are outraged and want to do something to challenge the government’s racist agenda.

While we are focused on the non-threat from the ‘other’, in this case asylum seekers, the bosses can put their hands deeper into our pockets. The immediate task for the left and for others concerned about Labor’s attacks on the most vulnerable must be to relate to the anger many decent Australians feel and help build the demonstrations scheduled over the next week and make them as militant as possible. As Martin Luther King has said “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” To that I would add unjust actions of government. That can only come about through mobilising people now in the fight and making the arguments for seriously challenging the injustice that is this rotten Labor government policy of deporting asylum seekers.