MASTERS TOUCH | IMGpapers 1976

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Whitlam-cooking for capitalism of a new election, and called for the power of the Senate to be destroyed The movement reached its peak with the sacking of Whitlam by Sir John Kerr. But the continued calls by the Labour and trade union leaders for restraint eventually had an effect -the movement was channelled back into electoral activity. The vacillation of the Labour leadership and its right-wing policies took their toll, as did the lack of any effective left opposition within the party. Labour was smashed after the most tumultuous events seen in the Australian working class since 1972.

But the defeat was not one-sided The mobilisations of October and November had stirred a deep felt need in the working class for a political perspective. flected in the massive increase in membership in the Labour Party: 30,000 were recruited in New South Wales alone, while in Victoria, 40,000 joined.

Discussion These people are still there and are having an effect on the deepgoing political discussion that has blossomed in the party on subjects like Timor and the economic policies of the party right-wing allies have been removed from their positions of influence inside the party, and on Timor for example, the Labour Party has now taken the position of calling for self-determination of the Democratic Republic of Fast Timor and for for the withdrawal of all Indonesian troops.

My organisation, the Communist League • one of the two sympathising organisations of the Fourth International in Australia - is a young organisation founded in the winter of 1972/73. We have waged a consistent struggle to expose the Labour Government, particularly on the question of indexation of We have played a national role A HAND?

Few people at the time drew any connection between the dismissal of Gough Whitlam on the morning of 11 November and the fact that this prevented him from answering a question in Parliament later that day on US intelligence activities.

But now direct CIA involvement in Whitlam's overthrow has been 1966-67.

French monthly Le Monde DiploThe first suggestion of something Who was Kerr working for when he buried the Labour Government?