Rudd falls in global mass-strike; who’s next?

One year after Kevin Rudd’s infamous outburst, “I regard Mr LaRouche as right off the planet”, he’s fallen victim to the planet-wide mass-strike that only LaRouche saw coming.

On 30^th June, 2009, Rudd had reacted to CEC Queensland Secretary Jan Pukallus asking him why he didn’t heed LaRouche’s advice on the global economic crisis that his government falsely claimed nobody saw coming.

Of course, LaRouche and the CEC did repeatedly forecast the economic crisis, which since its onset in mid-2007, has driven a growing outrage among the majority of people of every nation, at their respective governments, for betraying their needs, while bailing out the bankers and speculators whose looting collapsed the economy.

That outrage was identified by Lyndon LaRouche in his 1^st August international webcast, as a global mass-strike. It has sparked an extraordinary wave of mass protest inside the U.S. against Barack Obama’s bailout of Wall Street and his gutting of healthcare, a wave that has claimed many sitting U.S. politicians and threatens to oust Obama himself.

On the unfolding dynamic of the mass-strike, Lyndon LaRouche commented yesterday, “most people do believe in the idea that history is shaped by events. And on the contrary, history shapes events. That’s the way it works, and you see this in the process of the mass-strike … .”

[LaRouche will deliver his next webcast on Sunday 27th June, 3am AEST, archived shortly thereafter. Click here for more information on how to view this historic address.]

In Australia, Rudd led a government which has been madly bailing out banks, all the while, simply denying the crisis that has driven many Australians to the wall, into bankruptcy, mortgage stress and economic helplessness, but crowing of a “recovery” that doesn’t exist.

Worse, Rudd tried to change the focus from the very real economic crisis to the faked crisis of global warming, in order to ram through another way for the bankrupt financiers to siphon money from the public, by way of the emissions trading scheme (ETS).

The public turmoil over the ETS is a clear sign of the mass-strike in Australia, and it has now claimed two party leaders—only the media’s disinformation campaign is keeping the globally-dead issue of global warming alive in Australia.

Rudd’s CEC opponent in Griffith, Jan Pukallus, said today that the mass-strike is still driving Australian politics—the government’s change of leader doesn’t change its policies, or its disconnect with the people’s needs in this economic crisis:

“How long is Gillard going to last?” Jan asked. “Go back and look at what she said on our HBPB DVD—she’s lied as much as the rest of them on the economic crisis, and if she sticks with that line, she’ll go down like the rest of them.”

There is a clear historical precedent for global economic conditions determining politics: The last sitting PM to lose his own seat in an election as John Howard did, was the Tory Stanley Melbourne Bruce in 1929; the last sitting ALP PM to serve only one term after winning an election as Rudd has done, was the man who defeated Bruce—James Scullin. Both Bruce and Scullin were victims of the Great Depression; the fates of Howard and Rudd have been determined by the global economic collapse.

CEC leader Craig Isherwood had a sober response to Julia Gillard’s rise to Prime Minister, “Julia Gillard has an historical opportunity to save Australia from economic destruction, but only if she returns her party to the common good principles of the ‘old’ Labor Party of John Curtin and Ben Chifley.

“As Ben Chifley said in his famous 1949 Light on the Hill speech, ‘I try to think of the Labor movement, not as putting an extra sixpence into somebody’s pocket, or making somebody Prime Minister or Premier, but as a movement bringing something better to the people, better standards of living, greater happiness to the mass of the people. We have a great objective—the light on the hill—which we aim to reach by working for the betterment of mankind not only here but anywhere we may give a helping hand. If it were not for that, the Labor movement would not be worth fighting for.’

“Gillard and the ALP will only recapture Chifley’s vision, if they join the CEC’s fight against the Money Power in the City of London, for national economic sovereignty, on behalf of the people,” Mr Isherwood concluded.