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Comrades, now or never! The case for a general strike to bust the budget : Comments

By Marko Beljac, published 27/5/2014

The attack on the people of Australia that the Abbott Government, at the behest of corporate Australia, just intensified by means of its first budget has galvanised community and labour movement activists.

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Dunno if the sport of Abbott Hockey is an opportunity for true class struggle on the cobbles - but the author's anarchosyndicalist position in a previous essay http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=15715&page=0 showed promise:

"DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take
it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.

ARTHUR: Yes.

DENNIS: But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified
at a special biweekly meeting.

ARTHUR: Yes, I see.

DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,-

ARTHUR: Be quiet!

DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords
is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power
derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical
aquatic ceremony."

see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAaWvVFERVA
Posted by plantagenet, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 2:50:27 PM
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plantagenet - anarchosyndicalist.. like it..
Posted by Curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 4:34:15 PM
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Monash university needs their funding cut if they hand out Phd's to people like this.
Posted by individual, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 5:48:43 PM
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Actually I agree with the author, You have to face them out in the open.there is no other way, apart from sitting back for the next two years just hoping for the day that you can vote ! Lets face it, you can start a petition knowing that no matter how many signatures you get, it will come to nothing, because its polite and politically correct it will be easy for them to just completely ignore it ! I am not talking about open rebellion, but visual masses on the street, banners in hand happily marching along with a common goal in mind! That is something that can not be ignored or discretely cast aside ! Your Choice !
Posted by trapdiocan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 9:52:44 PM
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...I have an idea that may support the theory of rebellion proposed here. As the 60’s was a “coming-out” for the drug culture; the drug of peace was Marijuana at that time: why not stick to the theme and use our current drug of rage as a weapon, “Crack” cocaine.

...What exquisite uncontrolled violence could be directed towards Canberra by a swathe of withdrawing drug addicts. It’s an unused weapon of mass destruction, never before used for political purposes.

...I “bags” the credit for the idea!

(mistaken post to GY thread).
Posted by diver dan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 10:58:52 PM
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Well, we in Australia are not alone in our utter disgust with the "Political Class". Britain too is abandoning the major parties in droves!

http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/its-official-britain-is-now-run-by-an-oligarchy/15064#.U4SM0nKSxSs
Posted by diver dan, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 11:12:15 PM
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