VANGUARD - Expressing the viewpoint of the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)
For National Independence and Socialism • www.cpaml.org
The CPA (M-L) has just released a 22-page booklet, “50 years on: the CIA coup that kept Australia under US control”.
The booklet contains some archival analyses of the involvement of US Ambassador Marshall Green in preparations for the coup, and a focus on the political dimensions of Whitlam’s sacking,
The booklet can be downloaded here, and will be available in hard copy as well.
With some exceptions, coverage of the coup in the capitalist media is superficial, and deliberately so. This includes the ABC, traditionally somewhat independent, but now very much under current right-wing control.
Its “I Was There” documentary on the Dismissal was a case in point. People recalled what they were doing on the day of the Dismissal but said little about the reason for it.
On Insiders this morning, ABC journalist Greg Jennett spoke of another documentary to be aired tonight (Sunday November 9) and he made it clear that they had deliberately chosen to avoid the topic of “foreign interference” in Whitlam’s sacking.
A notable exception to this blurring of US involvement in the coup is the revelation of Marshal Green’s three phone calls to Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen about replacing a dead Labor Senator with the right sort of person who could help bring about a constitutional crisis and bring down the Whitlam government. The article is in both The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, and we strongly recommend it.
Our booklet is important in setting the record straight.
Our Party had it right at the time and brings it up to date with an analysis of Labor since Whitlam.
Watch for a further statement from our Party on November 11.