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    2007

    Electoral success and Dave Riley's babble. (March 5)
    A view from the left: the NSW election, the media and the will of the people.  (March 28)
    The Labor national conference and industrial relations. (May 1)
    Trade unions, war on the waterfront and a pretty good time for dialectics (May 16)
    Piers Ackerman's antisemitic hero. (May 17)
    The left, the trade unions and the Labor Party ranks between Rudd and a hard place. (June 5)
    Media monitors and information gathering. (June 6)
    Spin doctor Sue. (June 6)
    Forced indignation on recording workers' meetings. (June 7)
    Spinners should try to keep their story straight. (June 7)
    Labor and the trade unions: Riley, Raven and their mates are on the side of the conservatives. (June 8)
    The Labor Party and its immediate problems. A response to Alan Bradley and Geoff Breen (June 26)
    Dave Noonan, John Robertson and Pat O'Shane call Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard to order. (July 8)

    2006

    Norm Dixon's systematic insults (January 9)
    The DSP conference (January 11)
    DSP Green-bashing: whom the gods would destroy they first make mad (January 13)
    Dale Mills and the left in the Labor Party (January 15)
    New Boylite DSP leadership's tenuous grip on reality (January 15)
    The left in the Labor party (January 16)
    Poor diddums: a response to Dale Mills and Norm Dixon (January 16)
    The DSP and the Third Period (January 17)
    Response to Peter Boyle (January 19)
    Response to Joaquin, and to Shane (January 19)
    Correction (January 19)
    Gossip, and real information (January 21)
    Dave Riley, Sam Kekovich and the new DSP leadership (January 23)
    Much spluttering in the hive (January 24)
    The Labor Party and conspiracy theories (January 27)
    Flag burning as tactic and publicity stunt (February 21)
    Peter Boyle and Machiavelli (February 23)
    The case of the disappearing Green Left Weekly article (March 8)
    The mountain laboured and a mouse came out (March 25)
    Tadpoles from Woop Woop. The Third Period in leafy Katoomba (March 11)
    Kurds and Albanians have the right to self-determination (March 21)
    Is the term, agitator, Gouldspeak? (March 21)
    Marxmail and the right of nations to self-determination (March 22)
    Again on the Kurdish question (March 23)
    Protest for West Papuan independence (April 3)
    Ride on stranger (May 11)
    Socialist publishing (May 24)
    Invented "principles" and East Timor (June 18)
    Labor Tribune on DSP split (July 4)
    Peter Boyle fools around with smoke and mirrors (July 5)
    Boyleite Third Period abuse combined with backward Popular Frontism (July 12)
    Full-blown Third Period Stalinism in the DSP (July 13)
    On Bob Gould and Icecreamhands (July 14)
    Canadidan Stalinist Grok talks about icepicks (July15)
    Marcus Strom from the planet Zot (August 14)
    Scottish Socialist Party split (September 5)
    Green Left Weekly on the Queensland elections (September 13)
    The DSP leadership's despicable political irresponsibility (September 15)
    Queensland elections: Dave Riley's aburdist "analysis" (September 20)
    Dave Riley's hypermanic episode, and what it reveals politically (October 3)
    The hysteria gets worse (October 4)
    Bob Gould's "obscure writings on indigenous affairs (October 4)
    Inflamatory language creates the potential for violence on the left (October 5)
    Duroyan Fertl and the death of the Tree of Knowledge (October 6)
    Common sense breaks out (October 6)
    Dave Riley and the Tree of Knowledge (October 6)
    DSP leadership's sectarian myopia in its alternative universe (October 18)
    Entrism, the Labor Party and tactics today (October 20)
    A response to Norm Dixon on discussion on the left (October 22)
    In the name of the working class. The Hungarian Revolution of  1956  (October 31)
    Cyber-entity Raven's personal little Moscow Trial (November 4)
    A further appeal to the DSP leadership and the moderator of the Green Left list (November 5)
    Norm Dixon and serial slanderer Raven continue their double act. (November 18)
    Norm Dixon and his mate Raven are a scandal. (November 20)
    Raven-Dixon double act. (November 21)
    Gould is not a provocateur, for the record, indeed. (November  22)
    For the record. The vicious slanders on the Green Left list. (November 25)
    Some questions to the moderator. (November 28)

    2005  

    Joshua Boyle blasts his bugle again. (February 9)
    Results in WA (February 28)
    Peter Boyle and Dave Riley say black is white (March 1)
    Macquarie Fields police chase (March 2)
    WA election: Green Left Weekly's wall of silence (March 11)
    The Boyle-Riley Potemkin village. A letter to Andy Newman (March 15)
    Lies, damned lies, statistics, Peter Boyle and Dave Riley (March 17)
    Mike Karadjis loses his cool on Vietnam. (April 10)
    Autobiography is treacherous territory (April 19)
    Laurie Ferguson and Labor for Refugees (April 21)
    Nick Fredman and groundhog day (April 26)
    The AWU and racism (April 27)
    Clancy Sigal and Frida (May 4)
    Socialist Unity with the living dead. (June 6)
    Question on Green Left Weekly readers (June 7)
    Two state conferences of the Australian Labor Party (June 14)
    Response to Kim Bullimore and Jon Strauss (June16)
    Response to Sol Salbe (June 16)
    Peter Boyle throws diplomacy to the wind (June 17)
    Lese majeste by "the rump of the Non Aligned Caucus (June 17)
    Ben Courtice's Sisyphean task (June 18)
    Kim Bullimore and election processes (June 18)
    One person's obsession is another's history or critique (June 18)
    Alison Dellit's breath of fresh air (June 19)
    Kim Bullimore's indignation (June 20)
    The DSP, Norm Dixon and the united front (June 21)
    Norm Dixon takes Laurie Ferguson's spin as good coin (June 22)
    Norm Dixon, the DSP leadership and the united front from below (June 25)
    Norm Dixon, Peter Boyle, Rohan Gaiswinkler, the united front and dog poo (June 28)
    Fighting Howard's attacks: an open letter to members of the DSP and the Socialist Alliance (July 2)
    DSP condescenscion to Labor voters in the Northern Territory (July 3)
    The DSP's left-talking opportunism (July 4)
    Kim Bullimore and identity politics (July 5)
    The DSP underestimates the importance of transferring industrial powers from the states (July 5)
    The ACTU and the fight against Howard's anti-union laws (July 5)
    The London transport bombings (July 7)
    Peter Boyle's peculiar view on the reactionary attack on multiculturalism (August 3)
    By elections in NSW and Mark Latham's book. How the DSP sect views the world (September 19)
    DSP racism in Marrickville by-election analysis (September 21)
    Peter Boyle's "recollections" and Kim Bullimore's lies (September 23)
    Trouble for Howard on "terror" laws (October 31)
    Slanderous left talk from Norm Dixon (November 1)
    A response to the moderator, Norm Dixon and Mike Karadjis (December 11)
    The DSP statement on an article in Weekly Worker (December 11)
    Tactics in the labour movement. A response to John Tognolini (December 19)
    Correction (December 19)
    Another hot Christmas for the Australian left (December 26)
    Tactics in the labour movement. A response to John Tognolini (December 28)
    John Tognolini's slander is not credible (December 29)

    2004

    Australia's First Socialists: A critical review. (January 3)
    Re: Democratic Socialist Perspective. (January 5)
    Re: Australia's First Socialists. (January 6)
    Re: Australia's First Socialists. (January 6)
    Re: To sum it up, Michael K. (January 8)
    Re: To sum it up, Michael K. (January 8)
    Sackings in the WA ETU. (January 13)
    Labor History: Bob Gould's response to Peter Boyle on Australia's First Socialists. (January 15)
    Re: Labor History. Bob Gould's response to Peter Boyle. (January 17)
    Academics: A response to Nick Fredman and Alan Bradley. (January 17)
    Re: Gould/Lewis and the GLW list. (January 17)
    Ben Reid and the World Socialist Web Site. (January 18)
    The Workers Communist Party and the situation in Iraq. (January 20)
    More questions on the theory of the labour aristocracy. (January 22)
    A clarification to Jonathon Strauss and Peter Boyle: Putting the questions another way. (January 22)
    Re: More questions on the theory of the labour aristocracy. (January 23)
    Satisfactory clarification of the basis for a discussion on the labor aristocracy. (January 23)
    Re: Labour aristocracy in Australia (part 1) (January 28)
    A few more points to Peter Boyle about his recent posts (January 29)
    A response to recent posts by Peter Boyle, Jon Strauss and Shane Hopkinson (February 2)
    ALP federal conference lurches unevenly to the left (February 2)
    Errata from my post on the federal Labor conference and the labour aristocracy (February 3)
    The texture, flavour and sociology of the Labor federal conference, 2004 (February 3)
    Phil Ferguson and free trade (February 4)
    Phillip Ferguson, Peter Boyle and the ALP federal conference (February 4)
    The industrial relations debate at the ALP national conference. (February 11)
    Green Left Weekly,the Democratic Socialist Party and the Socialist Alliance. (February 13)
    Re: Green Left Weekly,the Democratic Socialist Party and the Socialist Alliance. (February 14)
    Virginia Brown's response to my recent posts about Green Left Weekly. (February 17)
    A reply to Nick Fredman: please don't verbal Michael Thomson!. (February 18)
    Re: Bob's reply to Nick Fredman, 10 "verbals" in five paragraphs. (February 18)
    A response to Peter Boyle and the editorial board of Green Left Weekly. (February 19)
    A Response to Peter Boyle, and the Editorial Board of Green Left Weekly. (February 20)
    Trotsky's attitude towards James P. Cannon. (March 11)
    Two documents on the labour aristocracy question. (March 16)
    Sydney antiwar protest a modest success. (March 22)
    Australian Socialist Alliance lurches dramatically to the right. (March 22)
    More on preferences in the Sydney City Council elections. (March 24)
    Hungary 1956 discussion on Marxmail. (March 24)

    Budapest 1956: The Central Workers' Council. Balasz Nagy
    The Hungarian Tragedy. Peter Fryer
    A preliminary observation on the NSW local government elections. (March 29)
    Peter Boyle draws what he calls a class line. (March 30)
    Proletarian revolution centred on Elizabeth Bay and Rushcutter's Bay. (March 30)
    Dennis/Michael Berrell's historical falsehoods. (March 31)
    DSP leadership drops Marxist analysis in preferencing Clover Moore. (April 2)
    Spain, The Militant and "anti-US demagogy". (April 4)
    NSW council elections: reply to Nobby Tobby. (April 5)
    Similarities between the US SWP-Militant and the Australian DSP-GLW in their approach to social-democrats. (April 5)
    NSW council elections: getting the story straight. (April 5)
    NSW council elections: response to Ambrose Andrews. (April 5)
    US and Australian imperialism sink into the Iraqi quagmire. (April 8)
    Response to Tom O'Lincoln and Gary MacLennan. (April 8)
    Re: Alan Ramsey on Latham. (April 10)
    Labor and Greens in Sydney. (April 14)
    Postscript to Labor and Greens in Sydney. (April 15)
    Tom O'Lincoln and GLW Parramatta grasp at straws about Labor and Iraq. (April 19)
    Labor and Green sectarianism. (April 21)
    Dave Riley asserts that the earth is flat. (April 27)
    Response to leftist websites. (May 19)
    Brainless, shameless, moralising rubbish from GLParramatta. (May 24)
    Re: Brainless, shameless, moralising rubbish from GL Parramatta. (May 25)
    GLW, the left press and the labour movement. (June 2)
    Federal election prospects of the Socialist Alliance. (June 4)
    How sects view the world. (June 7)
    GLW list and Carl Kenner in the twilight zone. (June 9)
    DSP and Carl Kenner still in the twilight zone. (June 11)
    Expulsion from the DSP: A response to Peter Boyle and Paperclayman. (September 4)
    Greens "sectarianism". (September 8)
    Peter Boyle, Duncan Meerding, Norm, Simon B2, Paul Benedek, lies and truth. (September 12)
    Bob Gould responds to Richard Fidler. (September 14)
    Richard Fidler's query. (September 15)
    A short answer to Norm, pending a longer one later. (September 18)
    Brian Pearce on the Third Period. (September 18)

    Mark Latham's Leichhardt Town Hall meeting. (November 24)
    More on Latham's meeting (November 25)
    Peter Boyle goes stir crazy. (December 3)
    Advice to Duncan Meerding on holiday reading (December 4)
    The clownishness of Peter Boyle and Rohan G (December 6)
    Self-important abuse from Dave Riley (December 8)
    Victorian local government election results (December 16)
    Weirdness in WA (and other places) (December 18)
    No serious response from the DSP leadership (December 21)
    DSP leadership prettifies the North Korean regime (December 23)
    The holiday season and political discussion (December 24)
    DSP drifts towards Stalinism. (December 26)

    2003

    How to Split. (February 27)
    Christopher Hill. (February 27)
    An Open Letter to Jose Ramos Horta. (February 28)
    East Timor, Luxembourg and Lenin. (March 4)
    Christopher Hill (as the nth man). (March 9)
    East Timor, Luxembourg and Lenin. (March 10)
    Sydney antiwar protest. (March 21)
    They can't all be Right (Australian Financial Review). (March 23)
    The Australian Labor Party and the Iraq war. (March 28)
    Six days in the antiwar movement in Sydney. Part I. (April 9)
    Six days in the antiwar movement in Sydney. Part II. (April 9)
    Six days in the antiwar movement in Sydney. Part III. (April 9)
    The war in Iraq. A response to Barry York. (April 22)
    Workers Online, Green Left Weekly and socialist journalism. (May 5)
    Labor and the spooks. (July 16)
    Tom O'Lincon, Ed George and others on national self determination and nationalism. (July 20)
    A kind of response to Maripower and several others on the question of Stalinism. (July 20)
    Bring the troops home and the nature of internet discussion. (August 13)
    Green Left Weekly article union elections in WA. (August 13)
    Lay off Laura. (August 15)
    Re: Green Left Weekly article on union elections in WA. (August 16)
    Re: Green Left Weekly article on union elections in WA. (August 19)
    Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. (August 21)
    Tom O'Lincoln's views on East Timor and bombings in Iraq. (August 22)
    Re: Communists in concentration camps. (August 22)
    Jose the thunderer. Thundering Jose. Part I. (August 30)
    Jose the thunderer. Thundering Jose. Part II. (August 30)
    Perez thunders on. Another Gould response. Part I. (September 2)
    Perez thunders on. Another Gould response. Part II. (September 2)
    The DSP and the WA electricians' union elections. (September 5)
    Re: Dear Keith Windschuttle. (September 8)
    A response to all the little thunderers. (September 8)
    More on Iraq. (September 10)
    An outbreak of primitive Stalinism on Marxmail. (September 24)
    Lenin, Krupskaya and Inessa Armand. (September 24)
    Australian left-wing writers and Stalinism. (October 16)
    Bush comes to Australia. (October 20)
    7000-10,000 march in Sydney against Bush. (October 20)
    Australia's occult capital . (October 24)
    Re: Rebuilding Western Marxism: Questions to Jose Perez. (October 26)
    The real lessons of the Vietnam antiwar movement in Australia. (October 27)
    Supplementary questions to Jose Perez. (October 28)
    Louis Proyect's comparison of Australia, Canada and Argentina. (October 29)
    On Bogong moths and Greens in Canberra. (October 30)
    Australian anti-Bush demonstrations. (November 6)
    Peter Boyle's ignorant demagogy about the history of the CPA, the ALP and the labour movement. (November 7)
    Socialists and labour parties, demystified a bit. (November 16)
    The coming federal elections: The slogan of all the left should be Kick the Liberal Out. (November 19)
    Developing class consciousness: from the ALP to the revolutionary party. (November 19)
    Peter Boyle thinks he's funny. So does Imre Saluzinsky. (November 20)
    10 days of interesting disussion on the Green Left Weekly list. (November 27)
    A crisis of theory in Marxism. (December 7)
    Socialists and the Latham experiment: a few words from the demon. (December 8)
    A week of venom and slaying social democracy on the Green Left list. (December 11)
    Stir-crazy Rip Van Winkles. (December 26)

    2002

    The DSP and the Socialist Alliance. (September 6)
    The DSP and the Socialist Alliance. Response to Jose Perez, Shane Hopkinson, Peter Boyle, Alan Bradley and Dick Nichols. (September 11)
    Labour parties: a response to Jose Perez, Ben Courtice, Phillip Ferguson and Jurriaan Bendien (September 22)
    Australian Labor Party: a response to Doug Lorimer. (September 25)
    Bob Gould and the ALP. A pleasant Sunday afternoon in the life of an "old crank". (September 25)
    Labor, Marxists and Gould and Painter's distortions. (September 26)
    Australian left: a response to Peter Boyle and Tom O'Lincoln (September 27)
    British Labour's conference: a response to Nigel Irritable. (October 2)
    New Labour: "Dinosaurs" versus "sectarians", and the political use of Gaelic. (October 3)
    Mass labour parties in the English-speaking world, empirically described. (October 4)
    Irish electoral systems. (October 9)
    On Scots/Welsh Labour. (October 9)
    Australian Labor Party: the rules conference (October 9)
    ALP rules conference: clippings from the media. (October 9)
    Labor students: cream or scum? A response to Nick Fredman. (October 15)
    Sociology of labour parties in English-speaking countries. Part I (October 18)
    Sociology of labour parties in English-speaking countries. Part Ia (October 18)
    Sociology of labour parties in English-speaking countries. Part II (October 18)
    On the Greens' victory in the Cunningham by-election. (October 21)
    Response to Nick Fredman and Ben Courtice on the Greens and the Labor Party. (October 23)
    A response to Peter Boyle's curious mantra about Lenin, the labour aristocracy and other matters. (October 24)
    Peter Boyle and the labour aristocracy. (November 1)
    Peter Boyle and the labour aristocracy. (November 5)
    Peter Boyle, the labour aristocracy and the united front. (November 9)
    The Democratic Socialist Party and the Socialist Alliance. (November 13)
    Nick Fredman, Peter Boyle and fire ants. (November 19)
    Fire ants. (November 21)
    Peter Boyle and the labour aristocracy. Part I (November 23)
    Peter Boyle and the labour aristocracy. Part II (November 23)
    United fronts, labour parties and the socialist project: a response to Shane Hopkinson. Part I. (November 25)
    Australian Socialist Alliance left unity meeting in Brisbane. (November 26)
    United fronts, labour parties and the socialist project: a response to Shane Hopkinson. Part II. (November 27)
    25,000 march in Sydney. (December 1)
    25,000 march in Sydney. (December 2)
    25,000 march in Sydney: a response to Nick Fredman and Ben Reid (December 3)
    Hobsbawm, Amis and Stalinism. (December 6)
    Stalinism and literary culture (December 6)
    Stalinism and literary culture (addendum) (December 6)
    Did Stalinism end in the 1950s? (December 6)

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