The recent electoral deluge that resulted in Reform gaining more than 1,450 seats across Britain’s local councils was a devastating advance for the party’s momentum. But it was not unexpected.
One Nation must be fought relentlessly. That has to be the lesson the left and the working-class movement takes from the victory of Hanson’s far-right racist party in the Farrer by-election.
Liam Parry was arrested last month for using a Palestinian liberation slogan at a student protest. Now, he is standing in Brisbane’s Stafford byelection for the Queensland Socialists.