The key question coming out of the November election will be not who wins, but how many people the socialist movement can win to our side in the face of Hanson’s fascistic tsunami.
Few people on the left would dispute that Pauline Hanson and her One Nation party represent a real threat to the working class and to oppressed groups. But how should the socialist movement organise?
Up to 1,000 people joined an anti-racism rally in Melbourne’s Moonee Ponds last night, even after a One Nation fundraising event was moved to a different part of the city.
Now, more than ever, we need a fighting left and a strident movement for Palestinian justice. The commission is an attempt to intimidate the left and to make resistance to war, fascism and racism more difficult.
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.
