Posts Tagged ‘Socialist Alliance’
June 6, 2007
He was only doing his job, implies Sue Bolton and says Peter Murray
Bob Gould
Green Left discussion list, June 6, 2007
The unjustified pressure on Dean Mighell to resign from the Labor Party, and the media witch-hunt against unions, attempting to marginalise them in the Labor Party, bring into the light of day questions that should alarm everyone in the workers’, Labor and socialist movements.
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April 20, 2006
Carlene Wilson
The Socialist Alliance: a failed experiement
The Socialist Alliance formed in the summer of 2001, it was unprecedented, particularly in its early stages because it brought together most of the major left organisations in Australia under a single banner. It was certainly prompted by some of the early successes of the UK Socialist Alliance and by a general feeling among many on the left in Australia that the events of S11 were the beginning of a new period of opening opportunities for class struggle and organisation.
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March 18, 2006
A tale of two states
Greg Adler
State elections were held today [Saturday, March 18] in Tasmania and South Australia. The incumbent Labor Party governments were returned in both States. In South Australia there was a swing of about 11 per cent to Labor. In Tasmania there was about a 2 per cent drop in the Labor vote and a similar drop in the Greens vote. However, Labor is still expected to win a clear majority of seats.
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January 24, 2006
You win some and you lose some. Clyde Cameron, former federal Labor industrial relations minister, joins the Australian Socialist Alliance and Humphrey McQueen leaves
Clyde Cameron, former federal Labor industrial relations minister in the Whitlam Cabinet, longtime Labor Party powerbroker in South Australia and nationally, now there’s a name to conjure with in relation to the Socialist Alliance. New DSP general secretary Peter Boyle has put up a rather extraordinary Potemkin Village account of the Socialist Alliance on Marxmail, mainly for overseas consumption, because just about everyone on the Australian left knows that Boyle’s account is unreal in the extreme. (For the opposite view in the DSP on the Socialist Alliance, see John Percy’s report to the October 2005 meeting of the DSP national committee.)
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January 2, 2006
The strange pathology of a section of the DSP
[Around the time of the 2006 DSP national conference, a number of DSP internal documents were posted on Indymedia, mainly the Sydney and Melbourne sites. This led to a heated and sometimes illuminating discussion. The Indymedia records of these exchanges no longer exist.]
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December 1, 2005
Greg Adler, former national executive member of the Australian Socialist Alliance, looks at the dispute within Democratic Socialist Perspective, the dominant SA group
(Rehosted from Weekly Worker, December 1, 2005)
In my recent open letter resigning from the Socialist Alliance, I wrote: “It is with great relief that I leave the demoralised, Democratic Socialist Perspective-dominated wreckage that now parades under the name of the Socialist Alliance.” I further said that there was no reason to “remain within the Socialist Alliance unless you share the delusion of the DSP that the building of its sect is the only way forward for the building of socialism”.
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October 15, 2005
Greg Adler
I resign my membership of the Socialist Alliance.
It is somewhat traditional in such circumstances to express regret about the circumstances that lead to such an act. And it is true that I regret the failure of the Socialist Alliance to develop as the sort of uniting political force of the left that seemed a possibilty when it began, and I regret that I leave behind some people still within the Socialist Alliance who I believe are sincere in their dedication to the struggle for socialist and progressive causes.
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