In Memory of Brian Francis McCarthy 1939-2009

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia
Media Release  5th of November 2009

In Memory of Brian Francis McCarthy 1939-2009

Citizens Electoral Council National Chairman 2006-2009

One of the last of the great torchbearers of “old” Labor’s fierce commitment to national sovereignty and the common good, Citizens Electoral Council National Chairman Brian McCarthy, passed away on 1st November at the age of 70.

With a long background in the labour movement in Western Australia, including serving as a shop steward, and being a member of the Australian Labor Party, Brian was true-blue “old Labor”.

His disgust at the degeneration of the ALP following the Queen’s sacking of the Whitlam government, when Hayden, Hawke and Keating led the betrayal of true Labor principles with their wholesale embrace of globalisation—economic rationalism, deregulation, privatisation, union-busting, health care rationing—drove him to quit the ALP, and, in 1993, join the Citizens Electoral Council.

Brian recognised in the CEC and its unique collaboration with American statesman and physical economist Lyndon LaRouche, the continuation of “old” Labor’s fight against the British “Money Power”, seen in the early ALP’s orientation to the revolutionary principles of individual rights and the general welfare which founded the United States of America, which led the party founders to choose the American spelling for “Labor”, and his hero John Curtin’s pivotal act to save Australia during WWII, by splitting with Britain and turning to America.

As a leader in the WA branch of the CEC in the late 1990s, Brian was instrumental in organising a revolution among the labour movement, when key union leaders publicly aligned with the CEC in a new joint-venture political party, the Curtin Labor Alliance (CLA), dedicated to leading Australia out of economic collapse by reviving the old Labor policies of national banking and great, nation-building economic development.

The CLA provoked the wrath of the sell-out leadership of the ALP, and the ACTU, which launched an enormous counter-attack under the direction of the British Crown-controlled Anti-Defamation Commission of B’nai B’rith, in the face of which many of the union leaders wilted, but not Brian.

Brian went on to lead the state branch of the CEC as chairman, and then took the national chairmanship in 2006, in which capacity he led the organisation right up until his death this week.

He personally recruited hundreds of members to the CEC, and led the WA branch to state registration as a political party.

Brian has joined the pantheon of great Australian patriots, including John Dunmore Lang, King O’Malley, Frank Anstey, Jack Lang, John Curtin, Ben Chifley, “Rex” Connor, Jim Cairns, Clyde Cameron, and his dear departed friend Andrew Bailey, whose lives were dedicated to furthering the 200+ year revolution against the British oligarchical view of mankind, and for the system of political economy dedicated to the common good of humanity, or in the words of Brian’s favourite political speech, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, “government of the people, by the people, for the people”.

Brian McCarthy, Rest In Peace.

Brian is survived by his wife Sue, four children and grandchildren. His funeral is on Friday, 6th November, at 2pm at the Pinjarra Cemetery, South West Highway Pinjarra, Western Australia.

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