Anthony Albanese may be the first federal leader of the Australian Labor Party to hail from the Socialist Left. However, his track record in New South Wales shows that he rose to his current position by collaborating with the party’s right wing to crush genuine ALP socialists.
  • PowerUser [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Sorry mate but I don't think there are any of those left in the ALP after Whitlam crushed the Victorian leftists like this guy:

    In Australia, especially in NSW and Victoria, a genuine Labor left existed in the 1960s and early 1970s. They argued for more militant unions, participated in the anti-Vietnam War movement, campaigned for a socialist Labor party and rejected pragmatic electoralism. For example, addressing the Victorian ALP state conference in 1969, outgoing president Bill Brown argued:

    “Only conscious organisation of social production in which production and distribution are carried on in a planned way can save the world from destruction. This cannot be achieved by simply winning seats in Parliament and seeking to change capitalism into a morally good society. It can only be realised by a complete break from capitalist institutions, culture and morality.”