Entrism, the Labor Party and tactics

Green Left Weekly discussion list, October 20, 2006

There’s not enough time in the world to write and comment on all the events that are unfolding so rapidly. I’ve been working on two or three pieces on different questions, which I’ll finish in the next few days, but some of the things raised by Alan Bradley and Norm Dixon demand an immediate response.

The slogan should be: ‘Kick the Liberals out’

Socialists and the 2004 federal elections

Bob Gould

Socialists in Australia should decide their tactics, in the run-up to the elections to be held sometime next year, with an eye to the immediate circumstances, and to the evolving demographics, considered in the context of Australian electoral and demographic history.

Unions and the Socialist Alliance

The DSP’s extraordinary proposal that the national conference of the Socialist Alliance should commit to campaigning for union disaffiliation from the ALP

A sinister proposal that should be opposed by all members of the Socialist Alliance and other socialists

Bob Gould

This proposal must be examined in the context of current circumstances in the Australian labour movement and historical experience and precedents.