King Rudd II or Hindenburg II

Catholics led charge against communists 
Angela Shanahan 
The Australian
July 10, 2010 12:00AM

Many DLP supporters sacrificed their careers to save Australia  from communism

TRUTH is the daughter of time, so the saying goes, so we can assume that love of truth is at the core of Bob Carr’s celebrated love of history.

The ex-premier of NSW is absolutely right to be shocked by the revelations of Mark Aarons that some Labor party  figures were also communists.

However, as someone who arrived sometime later than Carr in student politics, but on the same side and slightly earlier than the present federal Opposition Leader, I find it extraordinary that suspicions worth voicing had never crossed his mind before Aarons’s new book.

Responses to Carr’s piece in The Australian were everything from “gosh, what do you know, they [the Labor anti-communists] were right all along”, to “I wish they were alive to see it “.

Some of them still are alive, from among those who knew the Democratic Labor Party was not just the result of people choosing to pack up and go elsewhere from the Labor Party.

They knew that Catholics were driven out of the Labor Party by H. V. Evatt and his communist allies, whom Carr only now discovers controlled the ALP.

They were brave men such as former senator Brian Harradine, who was expelled from the Labor Party in 1975 by people who it appears may not even have been entitled to be members of that party.

As a reader wrote: “What comes out of this book is not to praise the ‘stay-in-and-fighters’ (as Carr does) but those who sacrificed their careers for principle and preferenced Menzies, so ensuring that from 1954-1972 a popular front government did not rule Australia.” True.

I am the granddaughter of a Labor anti-communist “grouper”, the daughter of DLP converts and a part of the DLP’s youth organisation during the election campaign of 1972.

It is doubly irritating to read almost 38 years after the election of Gough Whitlam’s hopelessly inept government about the heroism of St Gough and in the same space, that “shock, Bob Santamaria was right”.

This from the people who at that time treated our deadly serious concerns as the ravings of right-wing religious loonies.

According to Carr, Whitlam stood up to the communists in the party and saved Labor: “It was he who took on the Victorian executive, even abusing them to their faces, in 1967 at the first Victorian conference he addressed as leader.”

Fair enough, good on Gough. But so what? To which communists that Gough “took on” is Carr referring? The ones that were secretly dual party members or the ones who made it into Whitlam’s government and carried the contagion in their hearts.

Men such as the appalling North Vietnamese sympathiser Jim Cairns, or the naive “buy back Australia” man, Rex Connor?

Then of course there was their buddy, the tainted social reforming architect of our chaotic divorce laws Lionel Murphy (once described by legal writer Richard Ackland as a “puce-nosed jackal”, a sentiment echoed by the now deceased Paddy McGuinness).

The truth is that Whitlam might have confronted the communists at the party meeting, but it wasn’t Whitlam who ultimately put in the hard slog and actually defeated them; it was the right-wing religious loonies.

It was people such as my grandfather, who would come home all beaten up from meetings, ordinary DLP members, and formerly lifelong Labor voters such as my mother and father who were not even in Australia in 1954 but who were nonetheless branded as groupers by the solidly Labor parents and friends at the local school in Sydney.

Their main cause was not just anti-communism but state aid.

It was people who were branded as “refos” and “Nazis” because they had come to Australia from Hungary and Poland or old Yugoslavia where they had to live under communism and be subject not just to its bad standard of living but to its persistent indignities and persecution.

Of course there were the young people in the student movements whom I met in the Democratic club and the Peace with Freedom movement.

Despite being somewhat conspiratorial — we got written invitations to meetings and speakers were heavily controlled — we risked being branded as warmongers (and worse getting bad marks).

These young people have grown middle-aged. Some of them, like me, were never particularly good at the political stuff, being too anarchic at the meetings or with a tendency to levity at the serious bits.

Others, such as a star novice politician for the Democratic club, Tony Abbott, continued to fight the pernicious influence of the Gramscian Long March long after the Vietnam War ended and the soldiers had come home, and another war is being fought on many levels.

The real culture wars probably began then and they are still going on despite Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s confident prediction that they are over.

Surely what we should be asking ourselves now is what happened to all that communist fervour? Did it just disappear into some counter-cultural Trotskyist Never Never land, where all the old ideologies end up?

No, it ended up in feminism and the new “green” movement and the generally renamed “progressive” causes such as the gay lobby (a real favourite, that one): areas quite deliberately and carefully chosen for the amount of havoc they cause to the accepted structures of stable societies.

Meanwhile the anti-communist movement here — which began in the industrial groups, transformed the political scene and then moved into academe to oppose the progressives — was to be sure, somewhat limited.

It was not just mono cultural, it was trenchantly anti-multicultural. It needed people outside the old Catholic Irish conservative group, people from diverse backgrounds, and realised this too late. (I was accepted with my Italian name with because I, like the Santamarias, was not too Italian.)

The responses of readers to Carr’s piece were particularly enlightening. As one reader pointed out, someone should tell Carr about the number of Catholics who lost ALP endorsement as parliamentarians because of their opposition to communism within the Labor Party.

The problem now is that the contagion they were fighting is not eclipsed.  Aarons’s revelations might just seem interesting historical revisionism if it had not been for the eventual morphing of the communist cause into something far more subtle, more fluid and, because of its subtlety, more dangerous.

Australia didn’t succumb to political communism, but the Long March is still going. Its focus is different: it is the most basic structure of society itself.  It is the family.

www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/catholics-led-charge-against-communists/story-e6frgd0x-1225889696978

Now we see the why the ALP Government was glowing when it started the royal commission into Paedophilia in the Catholic Church,  I remind you of the heading of the article above “Catholics led charge against communism” 

I repeat also 

The responses of readers to Carr’s piece were particularly enlightening. As one reader pointed out, someone should tell Carr about the number of Catholics who lost ALP endorsement as parliamentarians because of their opposition to communism within the Labor Party.  

The problem now is that the contagion they were fighting is not eclipsed. Aarons revelations might just seem interesting historical revisionism if it had not been for the eventual morphing of the communist cause into something far more subtle, more fluid and, because of its subtlety, more dangerous.

Australia didn’t succumb to political communism, but the Long March is still going. Its focus is different: it is the most basic structure of society itself. It is the family.

Of course the Democratic Labor Party (DLP) are born of this takeover of the ALP by communism, and their voices are heard only when people choose to listen.  

They should have greater numbers in the DLP as they ARE the REAL alternative to Labor, for those supporters that have lost faith in ALP or do not like the role of communism within the Party.

In my opinion just because you believe in supporting the Working person and the lower income workers, this does not automatically equate to Socialism, and neither does the DLP.   This same applies to just because you are not from the Lower Income groups, you do not understand the plight of them, it is absolute rubbish, a lot have been there during their lives, and it is the jobs the Middle and higher Income earners create that gives everyone hope for the future, and able to support their families.

A vote for this Government is purely a vote towards Communism.  Make a difference this election and remember whether you are a traditional Labor supporter or a traditional Greens supporter you have the DLP together with the Coalition to vote for, just because King Rudd II has been resurrected, it does not change the critical nature of the ALP. Now they are claiming popular policies to entice voters, along with the strangely popular King Rudd II, who I refer to as ‘ Hindenburg’  (full of hot air and disaster is just around the corner). Don’t allow this Government another opportunity to ruin our great Australian Democracy, or our right to Christian beliefs.