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On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 at 7:22 am, Alan Bradley via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > Nick Fredman wrote: > > Very much related to campaigns against monuments to Cook and others is > what> is probably the highest profile current battle against reactionary > > tradition, the battle to de-recognise as "Australia Day" the date of > Cook's > > landing, January 26. > > January 26 marks the arrival of the First Fleet, not Cook, of course. > When fighting over history we need to be careful to get the history right. > Oops yes we should take care. Lucky I didn't go to the demo outdide the council meeting to support the motion or I might have put my foot in it where it mattered. _________________________________________________________ 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