Re: New Labour

[bjlin1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bruce Lindsay)]

It's probably worth pointing out that British New Labour and Blair
specifically learnt a great deal from the experiences of the Labour Party
here in Australia, over the 13 year period of its regime. Blair visited
Australia a number of times and was apparently good mates with ex-PM
Keating, the master knucklehead of the ALP right-wing. Prior to its
thrashing last year and the victory of the Liberal-National government (ie.
conservatives), Labour played a masterful game of subordinating the
national (?) and regional economies and societies to the neoliberal order,
imposing austerity, etc, while at the same time coopting and recuperating
industrial and social struggles. One of their first acts back in 1984 was
the deregulation of the financial system and the reassertion of the rule of
money.

Bruce Lindsay.




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