The June 2010 Political Coup: A warning to the working class, is a powerful collection of articles, comments and political statements originally posted on the World Socialist Web Site that analyse the extraordinary coup that removed Kevin Rudd as Australian prime minister. The material constitutes the only Marxist analysis of this major attack on democratic rights.
The 56-page pamphlet provides a detailed exposure of the corporate interests and political forces behind Rudd’s removal and the fashioning of a new, far more right-wing government under Gillard. Above all, it assesses the political significance and implications of this event for the Australian and international working class.
The first article in the collection comments that Rudd’s dismissal is “a graphic exposure of the thoroughly worm-eaten character of both the Labor Party and the entire system of so-called parliamentary democracy in Australia”. It notes that one of Gillard’s first actions as prime minister was to reassure Washington that under her leadership the Labor government would unconditionally support the war in Afghanistan.
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