Will the Greenies implode with a bang or a phut ?
What will be left of the Greenies at the next election ?
And silly little Shorty was gunna try to form a "govt" with these scoundrels!!!!!!
New left faction threatens to white ant the Greenies
Heath Aston JANUARY 20 2017
It sounds like something a budding Bolshevik might have whispered into the ear of a political confidant in early 1917.
"Capitalism is a violent and antagonistic relation between workers and those who exploit them. As workers, whether or not we are waged, we experience perpetual violence and ... this violence must be brought to an end. We therefore fight to bring about the end of capitalism."
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Greens leader Richard Di Natale has distanced himself from a new far-left faction wanting to burning the national flag on January 26. Vision courtesy Seven News Melbourne.
The quote isn't sourced from revolution-era Russia.
It's part of the manifesto of a new faction that has established itself within the Greens in NSW.
Greens leader Richard Di Natala must now confront party's leftist faction. Photo: Andrew Meares
In December, Fairfax Media revealed the emergence of the faction, calling itself "Left Renewal" and laying out one of the most radical agendas to come from inside a political party with elected members and aspirations to govern.
"Capitalism depends upon violent and authoritarian divisions within the working class, such as elitism, sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, religious sectarianism, and ableism (amongst others). It is only with the abolition of these authoritarian relations that we will be able to create a thriving movement capable of transforming society," Left Renewal's statement of principles says.
The faction rejects the "legitimacy of the state", claims the "police do not share an interest with the working class" and says Australia was forged on an "act of genocide which exists within a broader framework of global imperialism".
This week it recommended burning the flag as a different sort of Australia Day barbecue.
It would be easy to dismiss Left Renewal as the plaything of a small band of young, politically-energised, far left activists and anarchists in the Greens, and in some ways that is true.
The group, which will hold its first public forum in inner-city Redfern next week (139 going, 269 interested, according to Facebook), has more than a whiff of the Judean People's Front – sorry, People's Front of Judea – about it.
As a purist collective, for example, Left Renewal, refuses to provide a spokesperson to address questions from the media but communicates with journalists through unsourced responses on Facebook and Twitter.
Greens leader Richard Di Natale quickly dismissed Left Renewal as an irrelevant and unrepresentative "splinter" on the left fringe of the party and invited its members to contemplate their ongoing membership of the Greens.
"If the authors of this ill-thought through manifesto are so unhappy with Greens policies, perhaps they should consider finding a new political home," he said in December.
Unfortunately for Di Natale, it's not that simple.
Left Renewal has deep links to two of the NSW Greens' most senior elected figures in veteran senator Lee Rhiannon and upper-house state MP David Shoebridge and has already made a mockery of Di Natale's insistence that the Greens are not a factionalised party.
Faction founder Tom Raue, a self-described anarchist, works as an adviser in Mr Shoebridge's office while co-founder Brigitte Holly begins a job in Senator Rhiannon's office this month.
Rhiannon and Shoebridge have been at pains to point out they are not members of Left Renewal but are equally keen to defend its right to exist.
In a co-written opinion piece in the Guardian last week, they took what has been interpreted inside the Greens as a clear shot at Di Natale, a former GP, and his consensus style of leadership.
"From forest defenders to middle-class doctors and student activists, the Greens party is a broad and accepting social movement that has always celebrated its diversity," they wrote.
The irony in their solidarity with those who want to tip the system on its head is that both politicians have done well out of the capitalist status quo.
Rhiannon and Shoebridge, a former industrial relations barrister, both own $2 million-plus homes in Sydney's eastern suburbs, according to parliamentary records and real estate data, and Rhiannon in particular has lucrative public pension pots from state and federal parliaments.
Still, the pair have aligned themselves with the "eastern bloc" or "watermelon" faction (green on the outside, red in the middle) that dismisses environmentally-minded, middle class Greens like Di Natale as "tree tories.
More sedition overleaf
(to replace Om Mani Padme Hum)