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Armstrong has authored several books critiquing the Australian Labor Party and the history of the Australian student movement from a Marxist perspective. One of his books: From Little Things Big Things Grow: Strategies for building revolutionary socialist organisations, has proven to be controversial amongst Australia's far left for its assertion that socialist organisations can not hope to be more than propaganda groups in periods of low-class struggle and SA's orientation to students to begin to lay the foundations for building a vanguard party as a result of this analysis.[3][4][5] Armstrong insists however, that for committed socialists "there is no alternative but to organise the forces that do currently exist"[6] and SA's perspective "is an entirely necessary stage Marxists have to go through to achieve our ultimate objective of building a mass working-class party."[7]
Later years
Armstrong remains active in the anti-war movement[8] and is a member of Socialist Alternative's National Executive. He also contributes to the e-journal Marxist Interventions.[9]
^"Is there an easier road?"From Little Things Big Things Grow: Strategies for building revolutionary socialist organisations, 2007. Accessed: 9 July 2009.
^"The rise of Marxism in Poland"From Little Things Big Things Grow: Strategies for building revolutionary socialist organisations, 2007. Accessed: 13 July 2009.