What happened to the 'Fremantle Revolution'? Is this another Percyite chimera?

In early February I received with my posted copy of the Socialist Alliance-sponsored newspaper 'Green Left Weekly' a leaflet inviting me to attend the launch of a new 'Activist Centre' in Fremantle. I took the time on Saturday, 4th February to commute by train from Perth, where I had been attending the WA Friends of Palestine Annual General Meeting, to the port city and the Activist Centre launch.

The atmosphere at the launch was quite convivial, the speeches were tolerable, and I enjoyed catching up with old political associates and having a few soft drinks.

Yesterday afternoon I was in Fremantle and, after doing some work in the Council library, I thought I would drop into the arcade in High St. where the new Activist Centre is located. When I arrived at the balustraded arcade where the new Activist Centre is situated (on the first floor balcony) I discovered to my surprise that the door (no. 5) of the Centre was not only firmly closed but also had no sign or notice of any kind indicating what was within. I did notice that the clinical psychology practice of the former Greens Senator, Christabel Chamarette, was located across the passageway on the same floor - but the former senator's office had a sign on it.

So I confess to being slightly puzzled. Perhaps the leaders of the 'Socialist Alliance', one of at least two public factions of the Percy people that exist currently in the Perth metropolitan area, and the organisation that is financing the rental on the the new Activist Centre to the tune of $100 per week (according to information that was disseminated at the Fremantle launch),could explain to the rest of the left in Fremantle (and Western Australia as a whole) how socialist activists in the area might access the bounties of the new 'organising space' in High St., Fremantle?

Fraternally,

Graham Milner