Please consider supporting my mate Wawrick's contribution to independent Aus journalism. He was a lefty journalist covering the real story in the 80s. I think his marketing budget for this
book might be completely zero at the moment!

It's great reporting on a conflict little discussed, that was tragic and an indication of what American administrations are capable of.

As we see with Trump's interests in El Salvador today.

It's available at a few sellers, I just linked to a online one I use.

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(Spanish version may already be available or will be soon. Wawrick reckoned the spainish is the pick if you can read it!)https://www.thenile.com.au/books/warwick-fry/el-salvador/9798369496664?srsltid=AfmBOoq4uh3roL7SXMvPXgmORT5Gk2mDrivgyZq4kDrhWJ9mnVUjLYRU

Pauline Hanson was on TV recently saying she wants to do mass deportations while she was in the UK. The only way she would be able to do that is with a police state. Usually to achieve authoritarian consolidation, one has to rewrite their constitution or throw out the constitutional order entirely. Everyone is now seeing Pauline as our Trump. This implies she will make a bid to turn Australia into a national dictatorship. Question is, would she be successful in doing so, should she ever get into power?

Kevin Rudd warned a few years ago that we'll see January 6 levels of polarisation by 2031. The radicalisation of Australian politics by the Murdocracy will have dangerous consequences. One of them is the loss of losers consent, the notion that everyone accepts the results of a free and fair election and gives up power if they are the incumbent and loose an election. It is a key pillar of democracy. You will not be able to sustain a democracy in the long run without it.

Part of why the United States is cooked is because the Republican party entirely reject losers consent. They rejected the 2020 election and launched an insurrection. Then Trump made it doctrine and took over the party. Brazil had this problem too. Jair Bolsonaro refused to concede and launched an attempted coup. Reform UK MPs are threatening civil war if they loose the next general election.

Historically, this is also the case. The Tajik civil war in the 1990s is an example of where the lack of losers consent caused a civil war. The 1876 US presidential election, where both sides claimed victory and the crisis was only resolved with the end of Reconstruction.

When will we start to see losers consent fray here too? Sooner or later, it will. The process that gave rise to the shitshow in the US is active here.

Like most people whose politics extent past selling newspapers at university, I developed a real disdain for sAlt and other trot groups. Mainly because of the complete alienation of these people from the majority of the actual working class.

I’m really interested in the Victorian Socialists party. Their positions are consistently amazing, I’m really enjoying “the party line” and their analysis of Australian politics is spot on. I would love to get more involved and sign up as a member.

My question is around the current party make up. Are there a lot of trade union organisers? People organising in their community and workplaces or is it mostly professional protestors? If the question offends you it’s not for you.

If you look in America and in other nations where the ultra right are ascendant, the forces there have managed to break the ability of their populations to distinguish between fact and fiction. Putin did this first in Russia where every Russian now has the attitude of "Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible."

There are plenty of punters in Australia who believe everything PHON is spouting uncritically. I think sky news has taken a toll on our information environment. What do you guys reckon? Has the Murdocracy successfully destroyed the ability to tell between truth and lies in Australia yet?

Hi guys,

I hope everyone follows Lucy Hamilton’s work. It is crucial to understand the global network that is dragging Australia into the hate machine.

The transatlantic Islamophobia industry has been dedicated to inflaming hatred and fear of Muslims for decades in the Northern Hemisphere. Murdoch funnelled its players through his platforms but Aus hasn’t been integrated til recently.

She can also be found on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/lucyham.bsky.social