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US cables show reliance on trade unions to suppress working-class unrest in Australia
Declassified US diplomatic cables from the 1970s have revealed the intense, daily preoccupation by the American State Department and its many informants throughout the Labor Party and trade union leadership with how to contain and quash the eruption of potentially revolutionary working-class rebellions in Australia and internationally. The extremely limited media coverage of a recently-published study of the documents has focused on the revelation that Bob Hawke, who later became a Labor Party prime minister, was a highly-valued and constant “informer” to the US government while the head of the Australian trade union movement and president of the Labor Party during the 1970s.
Diplomatic cables show Australian Labor leader Bob Hawke was US informant
Bob Hawke, who later became a Labor Party prime minister, was a highly-valued “informer” to the US government while the head of the Australian trade union movement and president of the Labor Party during the 1970s, a new study of declassified US diplomatic cables has demonstrated.
Bob Hawke, 1982 [WSWS Media]
The documents provide a graphic picture of the true character and role of the Labor Party and the unions, which have always fought to tie workers to the requirements of the corporate profit system and to the Australian ruling elite’s alignment with the dominant imperialist power of the time initially Britain and then, after World War II, the United States.
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Can Southeast Asia Follow South Korea’s Democratization Model?
Democratic movements in Myanmar and Thailand may face more challenges than South Korea did in the late 20th century.
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The Myanmar protest movement against the military coup that overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratic government has intensified since early February. The police force launched a crackdown against the protesters on February 28, resulting in at least 18 deaths. An even deadlier day followed on March 3, with at least 38 killed by security forces. Myanmar’s United Nations envoy Kyaw Moe Tun spoke on behalf of the civilians and urged the U.N. to “use any means necessary” against the military junta. The military fired the ambassador after the speech.