Wildrose Alliance growing in strength

[Salyut]

Prairie Fire posted about these guys like last month; but theres been a interesting development...

Two MLA's just crossed the floor (http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/politics/story.html?id=2404005)(lolnationalpost).

This is interesting and disturbing - Wildrose is a reactionary party. I mean they had James freaking Keegstra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Keegstra)running as a candidate in Red Deer. I think another Of course, they're also global warming denialists who back further development of the oil sands.

Wonderful. :rolleyes:

edit: they also want to get rid of Section 3 of the Human Rights, Citizenship and Multiculturalism Act which: "...prohibits the publication, issuing or display before the public of a representation that indicates discrimination or an intention to discriminate, or that is likely to expose a person or class of persons to hatred or contempt based on the following protected grounds: race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, religious beliefs, gender (including pregnancy, sexual harassment, and gender identity), age, physical disability, mental disability, marital status, family status, source of income and sexual orientation."

[Prairie Fire]

Here is the most concise analysis that I am aware of, of the rise of the Wild Rose Alliance:

http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2009/D39199.htm#4 (you may have to scroll down a bit).

Too often the tendency of the Albertan left is to look at who-ever is running things and just say "OMG! REACTIONARIES!!!!", and leave the analysis at that.

Certainly the provincial Conservatives and the new Wild Rose Alliance party are both reactionaries, in terms of economics, social policies, etc, but that isn't the whole picture. To really grasp the contradiction here, and grasp what is taking place in Alberta, we need to know more than that the Tories and Rosies are backwards in every sense of the word.

We need to know who (which strata of the bourgeoisie) these competing factions represent, we need to know what purpose this new Wild Rose Alliance serves to the bourgeoisie (are they the new champions of Albertan Capital, or are they simply an instrument to put pressure on the provincial Tories and make them pliable?), and we also need to know why various strata of the working class are embracing them so suddenly, beyond the simple liberal sneering at Albertan "rednecks".

I think that the above article that I linked to covers it all in it's entirety,so any persyn who has the time to read that article from top to bottom should, as it really helps to orient people on what is going on with the factional rift in the Albertan bourgeoisie.

[Salyut]

Here is the most concise analysis that I am aware of, of the rise of the Wild Rose Alliance:
http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2009/D39199.htm#4 (you may have to scroll down a bit).


Thats a really good article. I'll have to make a note to read the TMLD along with my other news sites. :thumbup1: