With the Labour results in the recent UK election, I encourage everyone to read Lenin's In Australia
With the Labour results in the recent UK election, I encourage everyone to read Lenin's In Australia
V. I. Lenin
In Australia
Published: Pravda No. 134, June 13, 1513. Signed: W.. Published according to the Pravda text.
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Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow, Volume 19, pages 216-217.
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Translated: The Late George Hanna
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Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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A general election recently took place in Australia. The Labour Party, which had a majority in the Lower House—44 seats out of 75—was defeated. It now has only 36 seats out of 75. The majority has passed to the Liberals, but this majority is a very unstable one, because 30 of the 36 seats in the Upper House are held by Labour.
What sort of peculiar capitalist country is this, in which the workers’ representatives, predominate in the Upper house and, till recently, did so in the Lower House as well, and yet the capitalist system is in no danger?
Not totally relevant while the blue tories still control the upper house, but you know