Straya

I have encountered them in real life, they're a bog-standard pack of idpol-y hipster trots. I don't like their politics or their praxis. People can and should shit on them all day long. My point is that there's a fucking big difference between an organisation's politics being shit and an organisation being an ASIO op. The former is par for the course with leftist shitflinging, the latter is an extremely fucking serious accusation. This is the second time I've seen Howard Scott specifically level that accusation against the salties. I want him to either back his shit up with some evidence or stop saying it. I've no problem with anything else he says about them, I just find the ASIO thing to cross a line. If he has evidence, people who are involved with or near them need to be warned. If he doesn't have any evidence, he's just parroting the demented rambling of some old CPA coot.

Yeah, I had warning signals go off too when he accused them of being an ASIO psy-op. I see almost no evidence of this being true, and instead find the explanation that they're just a bunch of dejected trots with a cult mentality far more likely.

Socialist Alliance member here. Ask me questions if you want.

Main point I'd like to make is that we're not Trots - while some of the older members are Trots from the old Democratic Socialist Party, they're still Trots that broke with the 4th International before it came apart. The Alliance, true to our founding documents, is multi-tendency and not orthodox or dogmatic. There's not even a requirement to stick to a 'party line' when discussing theory, inside or outside of the party, and members can make off-message statements.

Personally I am a Marxist LibSoc with an ex-anarchist background (got really mad at lifestylism) and I have had absolutely no ideological issues dealing with other party members with different theoretical backgrounds. Lots of good discussion and synthesis. We're friendly with elements of the Left Greens/Left Renewal/Grassroots.

We're also part of the Victorian Socialists campaign fighting to get Steve Jolly into the Victorian Upper House. #2 (behind Steve) on the ticket is Sue Bolton, our long-time councillor on the Moreland council. I don't think it is an exaggeration to say it is one of the most exciting anti-sectarian campaigns in Australian political history. SAlt are even on-board, and despite some previous bad experiences working with them (it varies branch by branch and campaign by campaign) by all means I think they should be applauded for getting in to a unity ticket.

Is Howard an ASIO psy-op?