Re: [Fwd: [Marxism] Australian Socialist Alliance

[Alan Bradley <alanb1000@xxxxxxxxx>]

From: Dave Riley
> I don't know on what basis Alan makes his assessment
as he has > been no where near the SA for yonks, & is
in fact a member of
> the Greens and lives in a country town at some
distance from I > & where the SA does not have a
presence. But I think it is
> true that the call the SA "a limited success" for a
few reasons:

The basis of my assessment is an observation,
admittedly from a distance, of rather obvious facts.

And, in fact, I refrained from the assessment I wasn't
able to make, which was whether or not the limits of
the process add up to it being "successful" (worth
persisting with) or not.

As for being a member of the Greens, well, I'm
extremely unfinancial and don't attend meetings. :)

> but then the Greens , as Alan knows, close up shop
between
> elections.

This is, of course, untrue.

Surprise surprise, the rally against Howard's IR laws
that is on tomorrow was organised by a coalition of
the Greens and ALP unionists, plus a couple of other
odds and ends.

Finally, for the record, I had no awareness of Adler's
article at the time I made my comments. If I had, I
would have undoubtedly phrased things differently.


                
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