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International Socialist Organisation * by Dimity
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Interventionist Revisionist Backsliders
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The International Socialist Organisation - what is it? Certainly an
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organisation - they are organised in crowd manipulation and disruptive
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methods of fucking up potentially good demo's.
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There is hardly a demonstration in recent months at which the ISO have not
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been present. Due to the DSP falling out of many groups to concentrate on
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the Green Left and other issues, the ISO seem to have a monopoly on the
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hard line socialist front. Of course, there are exceptions: the most
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recent one that comes to mind was Operation Big Mac, a protest against
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McDonalds, whose environmental devastation, inhumane treatment of animals,
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phenomenal amount of wast production, and its effect on the Third World
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make it, year in, year out one of the Ten Worst Companies of the Year world
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wide. A worthy protest certainly, so where were the ISO? Well it has been
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said that the ISO believes McDonalds is a good thing because it is "working
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class" - those comments came from several ISO members, straight from the
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donkeys mouth. So, despite the havoc reaped upon the earth by McDonalds,
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International Socialists (largely a group of middle class uni students bent
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on glorifying and romantising history) seem comfortable justifying it by
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saying "It's is for the good of the people - even the working class can
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aford it ". Well frankly I hope they choke.
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We see the ISO at protests like AIDEX, attempting a coup on the
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sensibilities of 2,000 protesters by dominating every meeting and urging
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people to fling themselves against a wall of violent, fiery police. And
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yet they put out a booklet entitled "The Lessons of AIDEX", in which they
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ridicule anarchism and women in the most crude analytical and factually
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incorrect manner. The editors of their paper did, to their credit, print a
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long letter regarding the errors of this document, the lessons they seem to
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find it so hard to learn.
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At the George Bush demo in Melbourne in January,l the ISO caused the most
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incredible amount of irrational disruption. Protesters had claimed a road,
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had succeeded in entirely blockading the area that the illustrious
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president was meant to drive through until the ISO insisted (over the every
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present mega phones) that the entire protest go for a march around the
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city, thus losing the ground gained and clearing a drive way for the
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president to saunter through, giving a two fingered salute and giggling at
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how easy it is to pass by his admiring overseas public. The ISO voices
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stated that anyone who stayed behind would be picked off by the police and
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thus led people, motivated by fear, on the most embarassingly futile march
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ever seen, rampaging through department stores and other city buildings in
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the most ridiculous manner.
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Each year at the Reclaim the Night march men are asked to march silently
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behind the women marchers in solidarity, respecting womens voices in this
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domineering male society. Each year men from various groups including the
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ISO get up the front and scream over their mega phones.
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Again, Dick Chaney comes to town, the ISO come to Collins street, loud
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speakers in hand, rearing to make a mess of things again. If that is
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indeed their object, they succeed with amazing prowess. While the ISO led
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people on yet another futile march around the city, a nice big, black,
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shiny limosine drove out from under the Hyatt, safely coureiring the elite
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away. Was it Dick? Who knows.
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It is important to think before you follow along - who are you following?
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Any person who goes to a demonstration should ask themselves why. Is it
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because some war mongering arsehole is in town shaking hands with brown
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nosed politicians? Is it because you want to say to the government, hey
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what the fuck are you doing with my AUSTUDY? Is it because there is an
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arms fair happening and you want to close down the merchants of death? Or
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is it to follow a bunch of megaphones, behind which are the philosophies of
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socialism, but more that that, behind which there are very often undercover
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cops and intelligence (sic) agents.
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There is a rumour circulating that the ISO was instigated in Australia by a
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certain intelligence (???) agency ( the one that has that nasty habit of
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taking your photo at protests to add to their albums) a number of years ago
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so as to attract a more radical element and keep a finger on the pulse.
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Even if that is just a convenient and suprisingly understandable rumour, it
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would be so easy, so very easy for such organisations to be infiltrated.
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We are extremely naieve if we don't take this for granted considering the
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amount of money and individuals plowed into surveillance in this country.
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To laugh off the idea as the work of the paranoid mind is to not only
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ignore the consistent history of such activity but also subjects your
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child like politics to an eventual nasty surprise. Its so obvious. Think
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about it. It's a great way for the state to keep its eye on the radical
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"ratbags" in our society especially if the masses obey their every order
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expressed at a demonstration.
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If you need a catchy slogan to shout at the next protest you participate
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in, try something relevant to any political action in our time something
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like
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"The ISO has got to go!
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Hey hey, Ho ho!
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ISO or ASIO?
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Hey hey! Ho ho!"
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