Literally worst fucking timeline
News 5/20/19
Luis Brooks
Jordan Perry
Okay whatever, that just gives me reason to keep an eye on him, rather than hand him trust.
Caleb Thomas
OP/ED
How Australia’s Labor Party Lost an Un-Losable Election
It was a bright morning, the Sunday after Australia’s 2019 federal election. At Melbourne’s Trades Hall, the home of the unions and the Left, the late-autumn sun slowly reddened the face of a passed-out Labor campaigner. Champagne bottles were strewn around him; some empty and some containing dregs. Is there anything sadder than champagne meant for celebration, drunk in consolation?The night before, the Australian Labor Party (ALP), led by Bill Shorten, lost an unlosable election. Virtually no one predicted that come Monday, Scott Morrison, leader of the Coalition (the long term alliance of the conservative Liberal and National Parties), would form the government.It is a profound setback. Few on the Australian left were expecting four more years of cruel, vindictive mediocrity. Worse, the ALP went into this election with an agenda well to the left of their usual offering. The obvious — but incorrect — conclusion to many will be that this was the cause of their defeat.In the coming weeks and months, forensic analyses of this monumental failure will proliferate. Without wishing to predict the balance of discussion, there is already a clear danger that ALP moderates, not to mention small-l liberals, will draw elitist or conservative conclusions.Describing an interjection made at the ALP election night party, Guardian columnist Brigid Delaney wrote:It’s not Morrison, it’s not the Liberals, it’s not the policies, it’s not Queensland, it’s not Dutton. It’s the country that’s rotten. The call from the floor chilled me to the core. This is it, I thought. This is the hardening of the arteries, the cleaving of the country in two, the thing that Australia has largely avoided so far.To Delaney, this was Australia’s Trump or Brexit moment. This is not an apt comparison, except in one sense: Delaney’s piece, and the many others like it, may as well be carbon copies of opinion pieces published by Clinton supporters following her defeat. The whole gamut of small-l-liberal elitism, despair, incomprehension, and self-indulgence is on display.Other sub-par hot-takes abound.
jacobinmag.com
archive.is
Should Socialists Be Preparing for Revolution?
The historical pendulum promises an eventual resurgence of the labor movement. The strategic question is: what needs to be in place for a future revolution to succeed?When a seismic shift occurs in nature, all the accumulated pressure that had built up silently over a long period of apparent calm is suddenly released, instantly transforming the landscape. The reconfiguration of public opinion over socialism in the US has had a similar effect on the left—it has unleashed a debate that is pushing socialists to ask more interesting questions about what it will take to transform this society in our lifetime.Amid the churn of ideas, perspectives, and attitudes, there is an urgent attempt to make sense of the present epoch, to separate what is possible from what is unrealistic, to take stock of what is new and what is fundamentally unchanged about the tasks that confront us.
socialistrevolution.org
This Week in Fascism #10: Fash of a Feather
Welcome, fellow anti-fascists! This week, we’ve got an explainer covering the international networks of the Identitarian movement; new doxxes of the neo-nazi group Patriot Front, the white nationalist Asatru Folk Assembly, and the Hitlerite Legio Christi. Plus, Carl “Sargon of Akkad” getting milkshaked FOUR TIMES.
itsgoingdown.org
Christopher Myers
Austin Jones
No wonder China is surpassing America. It’s because of shit like this.
Benjamin Evans
Absolutely based.
Everyone should heat of this. Imperialist wars can be resisted at home.
Jason Cruz
This. It's very very difficult for the state to turn something like this against the workers. You can call it "disobeying the state" or whatever but I don't think people, even reactionaries, are going to be too upset that an arms ship wasn't loaded to go fuck someone up 2,000 miles away.
Gabriel Hughes
Zachary Hughes
Imagine being on that fucking jury lmao
Jackson Sanchez
The GLOBALISTS are trying to KEEP ME FROM making an honest living BY SELLING these GAY FROGS.