Labour defeat almost certain | IMGpapers 1968

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Wing class defence campaign.

What's behind the present Tory grab for power in Australia? vrat we nave ust witnessee in Australia is the ruthless determination of the bosses to press nome a portical and economic attack on the working class. Basic.to the present conflict is the economic crisis that Australia - like every other capitalist country in the world - is now The issue, as put across by tne Liberal and National Country Party coalton (LID-Cr/ and the bourgeois press, is "responsible economic management' - but what is and has been at stake for the past three years is the bourgeoisie's need for a decisive defeat of te working class, as a necessary coneltion tor the imolementation or a caoitalist solution to the economic crisis.

Three years ago a significant section of the Australian bourgeoisie chose to back the Labour Party (ALP) in the elections. They considered that because of its links with the trade unions the ALP was in a better position than the LIB-NCP to implement some form of incomes bolicy. nupert Murcocaine press baron wo now personary supervises the vehement press attacks on the ALP, was one of Whitlam's staunchest supporters in the December 1972 elections.

By mid-1974, it had become abundantly clear that the bourgeoisie had overestimated the ALP's ability to curb wage struggies. Ine more militant sections of the working class, naturally enough, took advantage of what they considered to be a Government favourable to their interests to push forward massive wage claims. Significant wage increases were achieved by large sections of the working class in the first half of 1974.

The State Governments. mostiv Liberal-Country Party, responded by adopting anti-trade union legislation, while the bosses responded with prod uction cuts and lock-outs which brought unemployment to the highest levels since the 1930s.

It was clear from the May 1974 elections onward that the Australian bourgeoisie would nave to take desperate steps to prepare for an all-out attack on the working class. The LIB-NCP tempor

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Red Weekly 11 December 1975 Cuts/Abortion 11

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Interview with JOHN GARCIA - one of the 'Brisbane 3' charged for their activities in building the black movement in Australia. Their frame-up trial was thrown out by the judge after a big work-