Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 07:41:30 +1000 From: bjlin1-AT-student.monash.edu.au (Bruce Lindsay) Subject: Re: New Labour It's probably worth pointing out that British New Labour and Blair specifically learnt a great deal from the experiences of the Labour Party here in Australia, over the 13 year period of its regime. Blair visited Australia a number of times and was apparently good mates with ex-PM Keating, the master knucklehead of the ALP right-wing. Prior to its thrashing last year and the victory of the Liberal-National government (ie. conservatives), Labour played a masterful game of subordinating the national (?) and regional economies and societies to the neoliberal order, imposing austerity, etc, while at the same time coopting and recuperating industrial and social struggles. One of their first acts back in 1984 was the deregulation of the financial system and the reassertion of the rule of money. Bruce Lindsay. --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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