From: "Hartin, Tony" <thartin-AT-vitgcdu1.telecom.com.au>
Subject: Re: working class heroes in Canberra
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 96 16:31:00 EST



>From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
>Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 09:37:47 +0200 (MET DST)
>Subject: Re: working class heroes in Canberra
>
>>Good times at last!
>>
>>Yesterday the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) held a protest
>>rally outside Parliament in Canberra in anticipation of the horror budget 
that
>>the (conservative) Liberal Government is set to bring down tonight.
>>
> Yes! And it made big time here on the National news. Very important 
because
>of all the cutbackls and mass unemployment here. However it is not a
>conservative government but a Social Democrativ government that is doing 
the
>operation. Think if the workers stormed the parliment here with the Social
>democrats in power!
>
>Yes then things could be very interesting.
>
>Could you let us know what the polical left is saying about this stuff? Are 

>they trying to pressure Labor into beiong more revolutionary?

The Australian Labour Party has been one of the most conservative social 
democratic parties in the world. Lenin himself remarked so.

No serious revolutionary has tried to do any work inside it since the early 
70's and even then they were wrong. The Labour Party has spent so long in 
office largely because they always been able to deliver bigger attacks on 
the working class.

The Left in side the Labour Party more or less gave up the ghost some time 
ago. In Victoria, at least, the Labour Party has moved markedly to the right 
in the wake of their election defeat, agreeing with most of the 
conservatives worst excesses.

Tony Hartin


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