From: "Marcus Strom" <MSTROM-AT-nswtf.org.au>
Date:          Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:21:06 GMT+10
Subject:       Re: Conservatives win Australian election


Gary

I think that there has been a move to the right. But I do not think 
that there has been a dramatic turn, but more a drift along a 
continuum to the right which underlies the Accord.

I find it quite ironic that the people from the Cliffite IS/SWP 
tendency who say that any call for a left vote (non labour) is wrong 
and smacks of parliamentary cretinism then judge shifts to the right 
from election results. HHHHMMMmmmmmmmmm..

> I'll put my tuppence in here and say that I do not feel that "objective
> conditions" are favourable in Australia.  Also I do think there *has been a
> definite move  to the Right*.  The empirical evidence for  this is surely
> the huge success of the four racist candidates- one of whom Campbell has links
> to a psuedo fascist organisation The League of Rights.  I as much as anyone
> want to believe that the rejection of Labor does not = a move to the right,
> but the fact is that we now have in this country a member of parliament
> whose platform is expliticly racist and anti-aboriginal and she was elected
> to a traditional working class seat as well.
> 
> Now there is currently an attempt by  the remnants of the Sydney CPA (Aarons
> clan) to float a new party.  I have posted about them before.  Their
> platform is extremly conservative, actually nothing much beyond Keynes, and
> i do not see them producing the break inside the Labor Party which could
> lead to the formation of the Alliance type situation such as occurs in NZ.
> 

Gary the Aarons are crap and part of history. Any move they make will 
be liquidationary to the core, middle class twaddle. All they have is 
$5 million of workers money that was gained through blood and hard 
work of communists over 70 years. They have stolen it and will do 
stupid anti working class things with it. 


> The scale of the Conservatives attacks  on the working class' gains ,
> especially the welfare state are the key to what will happen.  I am very
> doubtful  if we are close to a French type situation, but enough attempts at
> prediction.  Besides I am always wrong about the futurre.

Gary  I agree that the attacks will probably not be of the scale of 
Chirac's. The scale of the fight back is uncertain. The Liberals will 
attack the waterfront workers. we must defend them

Marcus


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