[Marxism] Re Aussie nationalism

[DAVID MURRAY <dmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My point in that post
(<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenLeft_discussion/message/3069>)
on the Green Left discussion list was not that defending the
PBS was wrong in general but that counterposing it as a more
working class issue than opposition to the war in Iraq, the
main issue taken up by the anti-Bash protests last month in
Australia was sectarian.

DM
Thanks, that clears some things up. but also point out that at the time, many 
australian newspapers also
raised that issue. Immediately after the protests for example the PBS issue was 
raised
on the front cover of the Australian financial review.
Was it sectarian? Then why did the DSP in its refugee work raise the 
reactionary call
for a refugee royal commission as a shibboleth to distinguish your refugee 
work? Obviously
this was a case of sectarianism seeing as you did this just to be different to 
the rest of the
movement.


David Murray
http://www.geocities.com/spnsw/

PS: The people who have contacted the SP since obviously don't think we made
"sectarian fools of ourselves".