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Tariq Ali is over enthusiastic as to the result of a victory for Corbyn in the leadership election for British Labour but he is totally right that there is no equivalent within the Australian Labor Party. But there is room here for fighting back on austerity for fighting against the barbaric treatment of asylum seekers and many other issues. The Canberra Coup was directed at disciplining of the ALP and the leadership of the trade unions to pursue "reasonable" -ie pro-capitalist policies-as was already their natural default positions. So various Labor governments have presided over the weakening of the unions the reduction of real wages ,the transfer of wealth to obscenely bloated capitalists and CEOs and ever deeper involvement in imperialist adventurism including most criminally support of and participation in the invasion and destruction of Iraq. The left Laborites have raised little or no opposition to this over a lengthy period. Certainly what I have seen of Corbyn places him well to the left of anyone in the ALP. While polls show the ALP has a commanding lead over the conservatives of the Abbott government this seems to me to be based on an aversion to the stinking politics of the government rather than enthusiasm for the Labor Party. The Greens who register up to 15% of the vote in polls are seen as more of a source of fightback than Labor here. On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Tariq Ali enthuses over Corbyn. > > > http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/07/a-pommy-magician-in-england-but-no-wizard-in-oz/ > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gregadler502%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
