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The following is written from my preliminary observer’s perspective between the periods of September 11 and October 27, 2002 and as such is probably going to need future revision. However, the key elements of history and influence have been noted and at very least provide sufficient information from which future inquiries may take place. Particular emphasis is placed on the myth and practices of the Tetun people, but by no means exclusively so.

Clerk Assistant (Committees)

House of Representatives

Parliament House

CANBERRA ACT 2600

email: committee.reps@aph.gov.au

Just over a year ago the prospect of a Coalition-led third term victory seemed improbable. Now Labor has lost one of its safest seats in the country, with a swing of over 16% to the Greens. The Labor Party should at the very least be doing some serious soul-searching after such a debacle.

The two-state theory in Workers' Liberty is perplexing and lacking in necessary elaboration. Workers Liberty claims that There are "two distinct peoples in the area, the Palestinian Arabs and the Israeli Jews". This is a confusion of culture and religion in the first instance, so if one gets this wrong, everything else that follows will also be wrong. It is little wonder that WL cannot conceive

Published in Jacques Chester's sample 'Honi Soit' for the 2001 University of Sydney student elections.

It seems that almost every political protest organised via political organisations of the far left is now a blockade. Following the relative success of the blockade of the World Economic Forum of September 11-13, 2000, the call to blockade has been applied to everything from Nike retail outlets in Melbourne to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

My short article from April this year, 'Another Generation Lost?', was initially distributed on the Leftlinks mailing list, the Australian Socialist Youth mailing list, several international usenet groups, made its way to Workers Online (the news website of the NSW Trades and Labour Council), was distributed around Victorian left Labor email lists and a few hundred even made it into existence as physical handbills.

Presented at the Labor Left Activists and Supporters Conference, July 2001, Trades Hall, Melbourne

Introduction

Today's Conference has provided a great opportunity for various progressive organisations, their representatives and individuals to express their desired results from current and future Labor administrations. It is by no means conclusive or comprehensive. It is merely the beginning of one of many future public activities organised by left Labor activists.

By Lev Lafayette and Anthony Leong

An article in response to 'Labor Left in Bed with the Sex Industry', published in Green Left Weekly, Issue 456, p15

The crucial political question facing any inquiry into the erotica industry under capitalism is whether one places economic class or biological sex as the principle unit of analysis.

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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:52:54 +1000
From: Lev Lafayette <lev@student.unimelb.edu.au>
Newsgroups: aus.culture.gothic
Subject: Vale Joe Spiteri

Presentation to the 'No Gods, No Masters', Melbourne Anarchist and Autonomist Conference "Lenin on Trial" session, held at the University of Melbourne, April 29, 2001

Introduction

I will begin with thanking the organisers of the 'No Gods, No Masters' Melbourne Anarchist and Autonomist Conference for providing me this opportunity to defend Lenin's understanding and application of the Marxist theory of the state and socialist economy. I must also at this opportunity express my grave disappointment that members of the various political parties and movements that make up the 'red left', as the Conference organisers have described them, have not considered it worthwhile to defending Lenin in the face of very important criticisms. I do not see how ignoring this criticisms or the anarchist movement how differences between progressive forces can be resolved for the purpose of social change.