Umm I think the author has prior religious descriptive issues,...

Umm I think the author has prior religious descriptive issues, in leftwrites.com


"the passion of Peter Garrett

Jeff Sparrow at 8:07 am on Sunday, February 18, 2007

I mean, of course ‘passion’ as in ‘crucifixion’ rather than ‘passion’ as in ‘the power and the’.

We’re witnessing the working-through of the awful deal made by the ex-radical seeking mainstream acceptability. In the old days, the former communists inside the Labor Party were always put in charge of industrial relations, so they could use their reputations as militants to defuse strikes, break unions and do whatever other shabby work needed to be done. Partly, this was because they possessed the credibility within the union movement to carry Labor’s line but it was also, I’m sure, a recognition that the process forced former activists to break irrevocably with their old ideas and their old comrades."