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Huh.
According to Randall Amster (Homeland Insecurity: Why “No-Fly” Just Doesn’t Fly, t r u t h o u t, February 3, 2010), Gabriel Kuhn:
…has recently been informed that he is persona non grata in the US, having found himself on the No-Fly List without explanation or meaningful opportunity for rebuttal. Because of this, he has [...]

Melbourne Black
is the title of a new anarchist zine to be published in Melbourne. It’s intended to provide coverage of local issues from an anarchist perspective, and general information on social struggles in the city. The zine is intended to be published monthly and the organising collective is holding its first meeting this Saturday, February [...]

Little is known in other countries of the fact that Bolshevism took shape, developed and became steeled in the long years of struggle against petty-bourgeois revolutionism, which smacks of anarchism, or borrows something from the latter and, in all essential matters, does not measure up to the conditions and requirements of a consistently proletarian class [...]

…shake of the balaclava to Colm, Scott and Augusto…
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Originally broadcast in 2008, and winner of a Walkley Award for ‘Radio Feature, Documentary or Broadcast Special’, I only just listened to Colm McNaughton’s Awakening from History. It’s a truly extraordinary piece.
Colm McNaughton is a thirty-something Irish Australian, who spent some of his childhood in a Catholic [...]

See also : Happy Invasion Day 2010 | God Save the King / Queen / Australia… For Race and Nation (January 22, 2010) | Support the Walk Off : January 26, 2010 (January 20, 2010).

Scabs don’t prosper…
January 22, 2010 by birmyboycott
On December 10, 2009, a gig took place in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick.
The gig featured a dozen or so punk bands.
One of the bands scheduled to play was ‘The Worst’.
As it happens, ‘The Worst’ did not play, having been dropped from the bill.
There were several reasons for ‘The [...]

…noice, different, unusual…

Sheesh. Stumbledupon the above while examining the reaction to Belgian bonehead Dieter Samoy’s recent suicide (following his being sentenced to two years jail for assaulting a man guilty of walking around in black skin). On my viewing, there would appear to be little arsing about in Chile when it comes to confronting boneheads (well, when [...]

First Muslim objector unites people of different ideologies
Özgür Öğret and Sevim Songün
Hürriyet Daily News
January 11, 2010
Anti-military groups are supporting Enver Aydemir, who is under arrest for refusing to perform military service, which he says would be in conflict with his Islamic beliefs. Though he does not want to be called a conscientious objector, Aydemir’s refusal [...]

Mapuche solidarity gig
WHAT: Alexandria / Encircling Spectators / Last Measure / Leprosy / Truth From Facts / More TBC…
WHEN : 7:30pm, Saturday, January 16
WHERE: Loophole, 670 High Street, Thornbury
COST: $10
ALL AGES.
WHY: An event to raise funds for a community-run radio station for the indigenous Mapuche peoples of central and southern Chile and southern Argentina.
The Mapuche [...]