Date: Thu, 7 Mar 96 11:09:06 GMT
From: Adam Rose <adam-AT-pmel.com>
Subject: Re: Conservatives win Australian election



Steve Wallis, as usual, writes sensibly until :

> I don't know
> how long it will take for the anger which there must surely be amongst
> ordinary workers at the betrayals of the Labor and trade union leaders
> to lead to action against them - but I think it is much more likely
> that it will take the form of moves towards disaffiliation of trade
> unions from the ALP and towards the setting up of a new party, rather
> than there being a mass influx of workers into the ALP to transform it.

ie "Either workers express their anger by transforming the Labor Party, or
express it by setting up a new one".

Er, don't you think they might express it by resorting to that old
fashioned tactic - class struggle ?

In the wake of DEFEATS, sometimes workers look to changing/founding new
reformist parties.
  
Adam.

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Adam Rose
SWP
Manchester
UK

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