The Party Line on Mamdani, Rudd and anti-protest laws

This week the crew was inspired by Albo’s successful trip to Washington to meet with Herr Trump. We discussed that, and then spoke with US socialist brian bean about Mamdani’s mayoral campaign and the No Kings demonstrations on Oct 18. We then get a mystery caller to discuss police and government crackdowns on the right to protest, including at the anti-fascist protest on the weekend. Against the New McCarthyism - TempestAhead of DNC, Brandon Johnson puts Chicago homeless on the street to make room for tent city occupants https://x.com/AlboMP/status/1980418575761609055   - Albo and Rubio Trump, AUKUS and the US alliance | Red Flag Premier’s tone-deaf response to a city crying for help - Chip le Grand Constant protest gridlock in the CBD is symptom of how Melbourne has lost its way - Phillip Dalidakis https://x.com/spencerhakimian/status/1980303616750788857 - Trump and Rudd  *****************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 subscribe on whatever podcast service you use, and share it with your friends, colleagues and comrades. We will always release our shows for free, to make sure everyone who wants to listen can do so. But if you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline. If you find yourself agreeing with the pod more often than not, please consider signing up to join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement in this country, one that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers such as Albanese.The Party Line is definitely NOT authorised by C Oakley, PO Box 243 Canberra. (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 land that was never ceded, 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.