Left Alliance (Australia)

The Left Alliance was an Australian organisation of socialist, feminist, and progressive students that flourished in the 1980s and 1990s.

The Left Alliance was formed in 1987 by the Socialist Youth League and Resistance, the respective young wings of the Communist Party of Australia (which dissolved in 1991) and the Democratic Socialist Party. Resistance and the DSP opposed participation in the National Union of Students, which had also been formed in 1987, on the grounds that it was dominated by the Australian Labor Party, and in December 1988, Resistance left from the Left Alliance.[1]

During the 1990s, the Left Alliance dominated the University of Sydney Students' Representative Council; its member Heidi Norman became the first indigenous SRC President in 1994.[2] In 1995, the Left Alliance at the University of Sydney produced Racism sux: an anti-racist handbook.[3]

Adam Bandt who was a Left Alliance member at Murdoch University later became an MP for the Australian Greens.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Gould, Bob (2002). "Labor students: cream or scum?". Marxists.org.
  2. ↑ Xiao, Alison (4 September 2018). "Stupol 1002: A brief history". Honi Soit.
  3. ↑ "Racism sux : an anti-racist handbook". Trove, National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ Wilson, Lauren (28 August 2010). "Greens too bourgeois for Adam Bandt when he was a uni student". Australian. News Limited. Archived from the original on 9 October 2010.
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