The Party Line on how Pauline embraced her inner fascist

Episode 53: The Party Line on how Pauline embraced her inner fascistThis ep looks at two big events this week: the Victorian teachers rejecting the shitty deal pushed by the Labor government and their union stooges, and Pauline Hanson’s fascistic press club tirade. The teachers have voted 58/42 percent to reject Jacinta Allan’s offer, and the effort was a product of an enormous rank and file upsurge largely led by comrades in Socialists in Schools. We talk about the implications of this huge win and what comes next. Then we unpack the extreme speech that Hanson delivered at the press club which revealed that this so-called populist is an extreme reactionary who hates workers, women, migrants, parents, trans people, and everyone else who isn’t a corporate executive, a property developer, or a mining boss.Hosted by Jordan van den Lamb (@purplepingers), Anneke Demanuele and Omar Hassan. Huge thanks to our tireless editor Charlie Wardrop, our graphic designer James Plested, and our occasional content producer Charlotte Tavan.While we will always release our material for free, please support us on patreon if you can.*****************This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline. If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.) This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.