🧵 4/ The movement won some real battles. But it was built around a politician as the target, and when her vote fell, the mobilising logic dissolved - even as the policy implementation it had failed to contest was accelerating.
🧵 6/ What we actually need is honest accounting of what the movement achieved and where it fell short, and a strategy adequate to One Nation at over 20%, not a repeat of one built for 8%. Read, share, subscribe.
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🧵 5/ The IST tradition keeps declaring far-right organisational decline as victory for the left while the mainstream right absorbs the politics. The MLR pieces are recommending this approach a third time, and it still hasn't fully reckoned with what the first two produced
🧵 1/ One Nation is polling at over 20% and just won its first lower house seat. *Marxist Left Review* says we beat them in the 1990s and can do it again. My new piece argues the history is more complicated than that, and getting it right matters now.
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🧵 2/ The movement was real. 14,000 students walked out nationally across 12 cities. Communities under attack got solidarity. One Nation's organisational presence was seriously contested in Victoria. These things happened and they mattered.