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This article does not seek to prove that the Left continues to exisror to describe its current manifestations. Anyone involved in the anti-war movement in 2003 could not deny its existence. Left groups were as vocal in the peace movement as they have ever been. However, they are still quite marginalised, whether inside or outside the ALP, although many have joined the Greens in order to make their leftism more effective. Withinthevariousanti-warcoalitions, revolutionary left organisations like the International Socialist Organisation, along with the Democratic Socialist Party, argued their traditionally strong positions on antiimperialism and the need for supporting the militant opposition to Western imperialism regardless ofwhere it was located. Had US President Bush not deceptively declared the war in Iraq over, it is likely the peace movement would have been thrown into tensions and turmoil by the difference between …