The Whitlam Dismissal: America’s coup for the control of Australia
By Shirley Winton 11th November marks the 50th anniversary of the bloodless semi-coup of the popularly elected Whitlam government in 1975. As the tide for an anti-imperialist independent Australia is building up, what lessons can we learn from the Whitlam dismissal 50 years on. This was a bloodless coup unlike the fascist coups in Indonesia (1965) and Chile (1973) where …
