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AK Press has just published In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary, an English translation of Ngo Van’s Au pays de la Cloche fêlée (Paris: L’Insomniaque, 2000) and of excerpts from Ngo Van’s Au pays d’Héloïse (L’Insomniaque, 2005). From the ‘Introduction’ by one of the translators (Ken Knabb):
“History is written by the victors.” [...]

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Prisoners celebrate life behind bars in Curtin prison in March 2001.
Update : Hopes of copycat escape bids after asylum-seekers’ breakout, Lex Hall and James Madden, The Australian, September 2, 2010: “SCORES of Afghan asylum-seekers spent last night in the Darwin watchhouse after a dramatic mass breakout from the city’s immigration centre, amid hopes the incident [...]

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Gramsci and Left Managerialism
Kees van der Pijl
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
Vol.8, No.4
December 2005
Abstract
This essay argues that one way of understanding Gramsci today is as an organic intellectual of a class of managerial cadre which develops in advanced capitalism. With the growth of monopolistic structures and a deepening state role in capitalist society, [...]

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From the Department of Destroy All Yuppies!
Over 70 years ago, a small group of local Aborigines, led by William Cooper, protested the beginnings of the genocidal Nazi assault upon European Jewry.
Indigenous anti-Nazi protests recognised
Luke Waters
SBS
August 26, 2010
The final chapter in a 72-year old Australian story of oppression, protest and pride is finally set to be [...]

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On the evening of 29 August 1952 a crowd of avant-garde aficionados and local music enthusiasts filed into the Maverick Concert Hall near Woodstock to hear a piano recital by the young virtuoso David Tudor. That they should be here, tucked away in the Catskills, was already extraordinary. The Maverick is more hermitage than concert [...]

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*Russian authorities/media deny early reports (Russian state-run news channel Rossiya-24) that a girl was killed in the attack. Mind you, they deny a lot of things… Avtonom has an English translation of an account published in local media here.
you have to treat them nice & gentle
do nothing rash, they’re sensitive
you must be somewhat sentimental
respectful of [...]

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Let’s debate Afghanistan, but give us the facts first
Tom Hyland
The Age
August 29, 2010
Where there is no information, there is no hope of a meaningful discussion.
IT HAS taken nine years, the deaths of 21 Australian soldiers and a hung parliament, but now our politicians agree: they will have a debate on Afghanistan. The Greens have long [...]

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The term ‘September 11′ is now forever associated with the terrorist attacks upon New York and Washington in 2001; in 2000, however, ‘S11′ was the name given to ‘three days of protest + carnival’ against the Asia-Pacific Economic Summit of the World Economic Forum, held at Crown Casino in Melbourne. (For others, ‘September 11′ will [...]

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Being the third in an ongoing series exploring some of the issues that have emerged within the discipline of Youth Work studies at RMIT. According to The Age:
RMIT youth fight back
IT’S not only Victorian College of the Arts students who are campaigning to preserve their courses. RMIT youth work students are fighting changes to a [...]

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I keep getting hits to my blog from users either searching for the term ‘Paul Howes’ or clicking on a link from his Wikipedia entry. Both lead to a post dated February 1, 2008, and titled Would the real anarchists / Trotskyists… (Et cetera). It explores the wonderful world of radikal yoof: “If a man [...]

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