u/Subak420

Rennick's people first party & the Australian Citizens' party have recently announced a merger to form the Australian People's Party.

Rennick is a defector from the liberals who's basically a one nation cooker with (relatively) left-wing positions on the economy & foreign policy. The ACP is a very strange party founded by the post-trotskyite Larouche movement which combined nominally left-wing ideas with esoteric conspiracy nonsense & faded away into irrelevancy (I'd dispute the accusation that the Larouche movement was fascist since it was inward-focusing & couldn't start a serious mass movement, much more Jim Jones than Hitler). They've since cut ties but are still fringe ideologically.

Will this take any steam out of One Nation? Is this a relevant political development or will this amount to nothing? Does combining Cookerism with Deng Xiaoping thought have potential in Australia?

*Not my own article

I won't go as far to say it makes the majority of the population outright petite bourgeois, but the system of superannuation objectively changes the way capitalism here works & has heavily diluted the class struggle. Abolishing superannuation and definancialising the economy is therefore a #1 priority for the construction of Socialism.

This is one of the big reasons why Australia needs a New Democratic Revolution, you cannot have an exclusively proletarian revolution in these circumstances. Unity around a left-nationalist cause of breaking the hold of foreign ownership, hostility towards monopoly-capitalism & so on is the only realistic path forward.

Launched recently. Includes the AusCP, Eureka Initiative, UMP (United Muslims for Peace, NDLCA (New Democratic Centre of Australia), NAILS (National Anti Imperialist Liberation Solidarity), ROSY (Revolutionary Organization of Students and Youth) and the NSW wing of Anakbayan so far.