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So the English Defence League (EDL) held a rally in Stoke-On-Trent this weekend (Caturday January 23). Between 300 (Press Association) and 1,500 (BBC) came out to play, UAF assembled 300 in opposition, and the police arrested 15 (or possibly 5 or even 17).

Moar photos here.
The EDL has been keeping Malatesta the friendly anti-fascist ghost very [...]

About Australia: The National Anthem…

William lauds ’spirit of Australia in its purest form’, David Rood, The Age, January 22, 2010.

See also : The website of Robbie Thorpe, committed activist on issues relating to Australian history, Indigenous sovereignty, lack of treaty, land-rights justice, genocide and national denial. Robbie is from the Krautungalung people of the Gunnai [...]

…noice, different, unusual…

A ‘Final statement by John August, President Humanist Society of NSW, regarding Humanist House and the PIF’ has been published on Indymedia, dated January 8, 2010. It concerns the relationship between the Society and the ‘PIF’, or ‘Public Information Forum’, a small group which has been associated with the Society for the last decade or [...]

After Pat Robertson does what crazy mentalists do, journalist Lisa Miller responded, pointing out that Haiti is “surely a Job among nations” (Why God Hates Haiti, Newsweek, January 15, 2010). After listing the appalling conditions Haitians endure and the recent series of (quasi-)natural disasters that preceded this latest devastating earthquake, Miller writes: “This litany doesn’t [...]

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Cheese-eating surrender monkeys do it, even Brussels sprouts-eating mountain-climbers do it. Let’s do it, let’s kidnap the boss.
Brewery workers take bosses hostage
Sydney [...]

A surge of popular interest in anarchism occurred during the 1970s in the UK following the birth of punk rock. However, while the early punk scene appropriated anarchist imagery mainly for its shock value, the band Crass expounded serious anarchist and pacifist ideas, and went on to become a notable influence in the burgeoning Anarcho-Punk [...]

THE BIG STRIKE

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[1:50] Two fascists fighting away with the strikers who are trying to drag them down and turn over the lorry. One of the strikers manages to stand on the lorry and he tries to pull down the loud speaker. The striker kicks the fascists in the stomach. Striker [...]

Blah blah blah anarchist terrorism blah blah blah state control blah blah blah…
The International Campaign Against Anarchist Terrorism, 1880-1930s
Richard Bach Jensen
Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol.21, No.1 January 2009
Abstract
This essay presents a short overview of the “classic” era of anarchist terrorism between 1880 and World War I, while concentrating on an analysis of the little-known efforts [...]

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“Carrie Feldman and Scott DeMuth are activists from Minneapolis, MN, who were subpoenaed to a federal grand jury in Iowa investigating animal rights vandalism from 2004. They both refused to cooperate with the grand jury, and were put in jail. Carrie is still being held on civil contempt of court. [...]