G'day G'day

[SpikeyRed]

G'day,

I'm a young, budding revolutionary, 17, from Melbourne Australia!

Looking forward very much to networking and serious left-ist discussion and debate with you all!

[Sentinel]

Welcome! :)

I live in Sweden but visited Melbourne in November last year, and attended the G20 protests. Awesome city!

[Hiero]

I have only been to 3 major Australian cities, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane and I rate melbourne as my favourite, and Sydney is worse so far.

[Palmares]

I lived in Melbourne before coming to Europe. I met the Sentinel there.

Melbourne is a great city. I miss it.

Enjoy the board!

[RedArmyFaction]

G'day,

you sound cool !! Welcome, by the way

[Sentinel]

Originally posted by [email protected] 24, 2007 04:53 pm
I lived in Melbourne before coming to Europe. I met the Sentinel there.

Melbourne is a great city. I miss it.

Enjoy the board!
Getting homesick? :P How long are you staying in Europe, and when is your counter-visit to Stockholm going to happen btw?

[SpikeyRed]

Thanks for the welcome :-)

Your right, Melbourne is great! Sydney is... too sprawled for my liking.
Adelaide has a nice CBD, and Adelaide Oval is a great Cricket ground :-)

As for Sweden, some fantastic music has come out of Sweden, IMO.

Cheers

[chebol]

Hey, hold up on the Sydney-bashing. We got beaches. With sand. (Although we've been borrowing the Melbourne weather recently).

Welcome. If you're looking for serious leftist discussion you've come to the right place (more or less - Chit Chat is more of a Rollo-appreciation club, but he's from Oz too, so it's *ok*).

What're your political interests/ leanings, etc?

[Mujer Libre]

Heya- welcome to the board. I'm from Melbourne (and Sydney- it's complicated) too. I was also part of the Australian delegation that met Sentinel when he visited here. *lol*

I'm in Sydney at the moment, but I realllly miss Melbourne. t just feels better than Sydney.

[Bilan]

Welcome! I'm a sydneyite.

[SpikeyRed]

Sydney's orright, I wouldn't bash it really, just, I like Melbourne :-)

Not to be Nationalist or anything (eWwWw!), but it's nice to know they're are plenty of Aussies on here :-) People close to home with a similar discourse.

Chebol - I don't remember how exaclty I stumbled into any serious Marxism, but I did, and I read around on the internet, and even though my Dad is some CEO (although not a massive company one - Union super fund type one) he put polotics aside and bought me a copt of "Essential Thinkers - Karl Marx (with Engels)" which has The Manifesto, Wages Price and Profit, selections from Das Kapital and Engels 'Socialism: Utopian and Scientific', so, I'm most of the way through "Wages Price and Profit", giving me a basic understanding of LTV and such.

First off I was interested mainly in kind of a Marxist historical perspective and then translating that into action today, but, Marx has made me more interested in Marxist Economics too.

That and I read around alot of lots of diff. Socialist publications like "Socialist Alternative", "Green Left Weekly" and stuff by "Socialist Party of Australia".

I find partisan-ship and animosity over methods and difference of oppion and splits and stuff kinda disgusting and against the spirit of Solidarity, so, while I'm happy to associate with any of those org's, I'm not at all up for the "my socialist org is more socialist than yours" type crap.

So yeah, kind of wide Marxist idea's and stuff is my forte :-) Not Anarchist at all or anything else really.

[Palmares]

Originally posted by Sentinel+June 25, 2007 04:26 am--> (Sentinel @ June 25, 2007 04:26 am)
Originally posted by [email protected] 24, 2007 04:53 pm
I lived in Melbourne before coming to Europe. I met the Sentinel there.

Melbourne is a great city. I miss it.

Enjoy the board!
Getting homesick? :P How long are you staying in Europe, and when is your counter-visit to Stockholm going to happen btw? [/b]
I was thinking about that recently to tell you the truth. Im in Czech Republic at the moment so am a long way away. And am busy in this area for a few months before going to England for a bit. Might try to come your way next year maybe???


SpikeyRed
Not Anarchist at all

Sellout! J/k

Good to have a non-sectarian socialist around though :)

[apathy maybe]

Aus/NZ thread. http://www.revleft.com/index.php?showtopic=36477
If you are in the region, post in it.
Or else you are a sell out.

Oh, and welcome. (And Cthenthar, two things, reply to emails and go see Sentinel...)

[Comrade Nadezhda]

Never been to Australia. But welcome to RevLeft!

[StealthyCat]

Hi,

I am in Perth (which is horribly unfortunate; I would much rather be in Melbourne) and new as well, although I haven't yet introduced myself.

Nice to *meet* you.

[Sentinel]

Might try to come your way next year maybe???

You are welcome whenever it's possible for you. Just tell me beforehand so I'm not at sea when you arrive, or can at least leave you the keys. :P

I work at a 10 days on 10 days of schedule normally.