Essay by Eric Worrall
Evidence is emerging of fractures in the remnant of the climate school strike movement Greta Thunberg once led.
The fight for a future free of climate change and war is the fight for world socialism!
International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia)
5 May 2022This week and next, students and youth around Australia are participating in protests opposing government inaction on climate change and the degradation of the environment.
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But we warn that the organisers of the events, School Strike 4 Climate (SS4C), are seeking to derail mass opposition and funnel it back behind the very political parties responsible for the environmental crisis. Any suggestion that the upcoming federal election on May 21 will help to resolve climate change, or any other substantive issue facing youth and workers, is a complete lie.
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Actions planned this month by the SS4C are deliberately narrow in focus. In the past, rallies—which were attended by hundreds of thousands nationally—were part of global climate strikes involving millions of youth. This time, events planned are small and isolated as a deliberate attempt to smother increasingly radicalised young people.
Many of the SS4C events are specifically advertised as “election climate strikes” with regional centres and cities not even organising events. A number of the actions are not even strikes.
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Read more: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/05/05/iyss-m05.html
Greta Thunberg is barely newsworthy these days, but I hope some of you find the final collapse of her movement interesting.
The International Socialists are a bit of a remnant themselves. I doubt the International Socialists could muster more than a hundred or so mostly ageing “students” to a rally, at least in Australia. The day of their brand of anarchic socialism is pretty much done, angry young people have flocked to more interesting brands like Antifa or Extinction Rebellion.
And the idea of a Greta school strike outside major cities and a few big regional centres is laughable. Left wing support for higher fuel prices in the name of climate action does not play well in most of rural Australia. Our vast distances make the push for electrified transport and high gasoline prices a painful experience for most rural people.
Maybe at the height of Greta’s movement, before fuel prices rose, before she turned 18, she could have mustered a few followers in rural Australia.
What I find interesting about this statement by the International Socialists is confirmation that Greta’s brand, her once impressive global climate school strike movement, seems to have fallen so far that her fellow travellers have no hesitation trying to put her down to make themselves look better. Not that it will do the socialists any good.
In two weeks Australians vote in a federal election. Greta Thunberg and her school strike movement have pretty much disappeared from the news in Australia, along with the fake climate crisis. A few inner city conservatives are panicking over a challenge from people who claim to be green independents, but few people outside the inner city latte set care about the “crisis of our time”.
There is an immense cloud of apathy hanging over the upcoming Aussie Federal election, none of the mainstream candidates are inspiring. Cost of living is a big concern, but nobody seems to be offering convincing solutions. The election is shaping up to a choice between the incumbent, who promises more of the same, and the challenger, whose lack of preparation and inability to remember anything about the economy he will be expected to manage has become a key election issue. The parts of the Aussie federal election campaign I have bothered to watch rarely mention climate change.
If I cared, I’d feel bad for her. She’s about to lose the only thing in her life–the celebrity her parents told her was most important–and there’s going to be only an empty void filled with mental illness, drugs, and broken relationships in it’s place.
Any suggestion that the upcoming federal election on May 21 will help to resolve unicorn mange, endangered fairy species, attacks of the lizard people, climate change or any other substantive issue facing youth and workers, is a complete lie.
She should sing the old classic song that goes;
“They can shove their Socialism
Up their arse!”
The first thing that must strike any outside observer is that
Socialism, in its developed form is a theory confined entirely to the
middle classes. The typical Socialist is not, as tremulous old ladies
imagine, a ferocious-looking working man with greasy overalls and a raucous
voice. He is either a youthful snob-Bolshevik who in five years’ time will
quite probably have made a wealthy marriage and been converted to Roman
Catholicism; or, still more typically, a prim little man with a white-
collar job, usually a secret teetotaller and often with vegetarian
leanings, with a history of Nonconformity behind him, and, above all, with
a social position which he has no intention of forfeiting.
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This last type is surprisingly common in Socialist parties of every shade; it has perhaps
been taken over en bloc from the old Liberal Party. In addition to this
there is the horrible–the really disquieting–prevalence of cranks
wherever Socialists are gathered together. One sometimes gets the
impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards
them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer,
sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.
One day this summer I was riding through Letchworth when the bus stopped
and two dreadful-looking old men got on to it. They were both about sixty,
both very short, pink, and chubby, and both hatless. One of them was
obscenely bald, the other had long grey hair bobbed in the Lloyd George
style. They were dressed in pistachio-coloured shirts and khaki shorts into
which their huge bottoms were crammed so tightly that you could study every
dimple. Their appearance created a mild stir of horror on top of the bus.
The man next to me, a commercial traveller I should say, glanced at me, at
them, and back again at me, and murmured ‘Socialists’.
George Orwell, ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ (1937)
I have been impressed with the Liberal Democrats in Australia, not only as they are “pro freedom” but that they have invested the effort into a reasonably wide spread of policies, not just single issues or motherhood statements. On climate change they support “free market energy, no net zero emissions target and abolition of renewable energy target”. So I am in the habit of recommending voting for them if you care about pushing back against climate panic.
Fortunately Australia has preferential voting so a vote for a minor party can’t be wasted!
There is an immense cloud of apathy hanging over the upcoming Aussie Federal election…
How is this possible? Scott Morrison has overseen conversion of Australia into a police state.
The state premiers have brought down the boot heel of police oppression in the name of mandates, masks, and vaccination (a laughable euphemism). Citizens have been beaten in the streets. In one case a directed energy weapon apparently was used on protesters in Canberra.
Scott Morrison has been silent.
Free movement has been forbidden within Australia. Enforced separation of families across state borders. People forbidden to return home. Concentration camps with thousands of political prisoners otherwise called anti-vaxxers.
Australians should be out in the streets. Party leaders, premiers, mayors and police chiefs should be being chased from the streets. The sociopathic meatheads who run the national and state governments should be tossed out, never to be respected again.
Where are the furious Australians?
Time Magazines person of the year is starting to look less of a Child and more of a tool of the Globalists bottom dwellers and muck suckers which has been selected and trained by the Globalists
Funny that Greta Thunberg and Kyle Rittenhouse share the same birthday – day, month and year. Both have been misrepresented and are finally being seen for who they really are. It’s a microcosm of what’s playing out on a collective scale.