Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 10:37:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Jamal Hannah <jah-AT-iww.org>
Subject: Marxists in Australia


I think the anarchists in Australia better see this. If someone on the
spanet list could forward this there (if it doesnt make it), please do.

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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:05:49 +1000
From: Alan Bradley <alanb-AT-elf.brisnet.org.au>
Reply-To: marxism-AT-lists.panix.com
To: marxism-AT-lists.panix.com
Subject: Re: Anarchism; more popular than marxism?

> From: Graham  
> In short, the new 'anarchist' movement is more popular than Marxism - i.e
> it has a more active base of support within certain imperialist powers - 
> but only by virtue of it being 'last man standing'.  It's come out of the
> 80s and 90s in better shape than rival political traditions (needless to
> say it has little to do with Bakunin et al at present).  

We're probably just lucky in Australia, but I can't help wondering if the
fact that we have a couple of aggressive and reasonably capable left
organisations reaching out to rebellious youth hasn't gone some way towards
choking off the emergence of a strong anarchist trend.  There are
anarchists out there, but outfits like Resistance are way ahead of them
when it comes to organising high school students, and similar layers.

So there's a lesson:  organise youth, or rather, encourage them to organise
themselves.

Alan Bradley
alanb-AT-elf.brisnet.org.au