File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1998/marxism-international.9802, message 315


Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 11:31:51 +1000
From: Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan-AT-qut.edu.au>
Subject: re: Chris Warren was Re: M-I: re Gary MacLennan


At 10:05 PM 2/18/98 +1100, you wrote:
>
>
>So this is Gary MacLennan
>
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>I hope Chris Warren is still around because I would like him to tell us
>how he could avoid using the words treachery and betrayal to describe
>the role of those whom he has sucked up to - namely his beloved trade
>union officials.
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>
>
>Here it amply demonstrates its complete alienation from real
>working class movement in Western capitalism.  It is trying
>to disrupt otherwise pleasant discussion.  It certainly doesn't
>understand the intense class struggle occurring at Webb Dock, in
>the media, in the courts and in parliament, nor the efforts being
>made by workplace delegates in many other unions right across
>Australia and internationally.
>
>
>I wish these university types from .edu would just piss off and stop
>wasting taxpayers money.
>
>
>There is nothing comradely in this thing from Queensland .edu.
>Its got more venom than a Cane Toad.
>
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>Why do we have to put up with it?
>
Don't be such a bloody sook.  You are not exactly sweetness and light
yourself as you have amply demonstrated to a number of list members.

But that apart tell us what you think of John Coombs (The leader of the
Maritime Union of Australia) offering to the Boss- Chris Corrigan- to
betray 60 of the militant workers on Webb dock in Melbourne.  And in case
you want to do what Coombs did and deny there was any offer tell us what
you think of what the union officials did to the militant worker who
chucked a brick at the scabs.  Do you think he should have been sacked?

On second thoughts don't bother - we know where you stand in the struggle.
You simply equate the officials with the working class and then you follow
them.  In so doing you totally neglect the Leninist analysis of the "labor
lieutenants of capital" that is the trade union bureaucracy.

In truth you are an heir to the right turn that Sharkey, the then leader of
the Communist Party of Australia, performed following the big defeats of
the late 1940s.  After contesting leadership with the Labor Party and
failing the CPA settled into a long strategy of tailing the ALP union
bureaucracy.  The CPA is gone but the strategy lingers on even in the
Public Service, in Canberra, it seems.

So you are a workerist but with the variation that yours is not a decent
rank and file workerism.  No you are the mate of the union bosses.  Anyone
who disagrees with you is a Trot.  If things go wrong you do not blame the
rotten compromises at the heart of your politics.  Oh no it's the movement
that are to blame.  You know those "lesos" and "poofters".  They ruin
everything.

Gary MacLennan


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