In this episode of Living the Dream Jon (@JonPiccini) and Dave (@withsobersenses) are joined by Liz Humphrys (@liz_beths) who torpedos the hagiography of the ALP Hawke-Keating government. Whilst the talking heads of the ALP like Van Badham and Wayne Swan argue over if the Hawke-Keating government was mainly excellent with a few flaws or really excellent with none, Liz’s ground breaking work on the Accord shows how the latter was the central plank of the implementation of neo-liberalism in Australia and the method of delivering an epoch defining defeat to the working class and the decomposition of our power. Not one for pointless pessimism Liz also gives us some key insights from this history that can help us recompose a viable anticapitalist project today.
Liz’s work can be found at:
An Integral State
Left Flank
How Labour Made Neoliberalism (with Damien Cahill)
And we take umbrage at these confused musings of and about Australian Laborism:
Australian Labor led centre-left parties into neoliberalism. Can they lead it out?
Labour has a chance if it replaces Corbyn. Look at Australia in 1983
The Hawke-Keating agenda was Laborism, not neoliberalism, and is still a guiding light
For those interested in the subject matter of this podcast the Brisbane Labour History Association is presenting the Alex Macdonald lecture: Labor, labour and Australia in the 1980s feature historian Frank Bongiorno 7th June 5.30 for 6.00pm at the QCU Building, 16 Peel St,, South Brisbane.
This podcast contains music from Painters and Dockers that encapsulates the feel of Australia in the 1980s
#SandersofSthBrisbane ? Council elections, social movements & the #RighttotheCity
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Living The Dream 'Dominant Society Needs A Slap in the Face': Sovereignty Solidarity & Decolonisation
Living the Dream: Welfare, Social Reproduction and Social Impact Bonds
Living the Dream: Climate, Capitalism & Crisis
New Year's Thoughts - Prospects, Predictions, Postulations
#qldworkersparadise : Sunny times for the working class in Qld under Labor?
From Liberation to Human Rights - changes in the language of critique
Everything You Know Is Wrong -Conspiracy Theory
Queensland: beautiful one day, workers’ paradise the next?
Stranger Choices: Getting ready for the hangover
Stranger Choices: Qld Uncut - Lessons for tomorrow's struggle
Stranger Choices: Pig City! Anti-Politics, Law & Order and Populism
Stranger Choices Queensland Election #1: elections, Joh, debt and emancipatory politics
'...from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again': "Really Existing Socialism", Liberalism and Violence
Living the Dream, Words from Struggle Street #2 No Shelter
Living the Dream, Words from Struggle Street #1 UOW Uncut
Work, Workers and Organisation Part 2
Work, Workers and Organisation Part 1
HooHa - Living the Dream Intro
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