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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #205 w Jordana Silverstein on history, Palestine, Zionism & more : May 2, 2024

Posted on May 1, 2024 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Jordana (Jordy) Silverstein [X/Twitter]. Jordy is an academic based in Melbourne/Naarm and the author of Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders (Monash University Publishing, 2023) and Anxious Histories: … Continue reading →

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May Day in Melbourne : 2024

Posted on April 30, 2024 by @ndy

I’ve periodically written about May Day over the years, on the last occasion in 2021. In fact, I started blogging here on May Day in 2006 — 18 years ago! — and started my Patreon account on this date in … Continue reading →

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antifa notes (april 24, 2024) : right-wing extremism and inquiring minds

Posted on April 24, 2024 by @ndy

Following on from ex-blogger, proprietarian and 2016 Young Lolbertarian of the Year award-winner Senator James Paterson chairing an Inquiry into extremist movements and radicalism in Australia — born in December 2020, the Inquiry passed on, is no more, and ceased … Continue reading →

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #202 w Tyler West on Southern Africa in the political imagination of New Zealand’s radical right : April 4, 2024

Posted on April 2, 2024 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Tyler West. Tyler is an historian who blogs at Notes South From Nowhere and is the co-author, with Dr Sebastian Potgieter, of ‘‘A bastion of white supremacy’: Southern Africa … Continue reading →

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #201 w Chris Wilson on the Christchurch terrorist, Australia & 4chan : March 28, 2024

Posted on March 26, 2024 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Chris Wilson [X/Twitter]. Chris is the co-founder and director of Hate & Extremism Insights Aotearoa (HEIA) and a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland. … Continue reading →

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#LetWomenSpeak (2023) ~vs~ #WomenWillSpeak (2024) in Naarm/Melbourne

Posted on March 25, 2024 by @ndy

[Update (March 26, 2024) : Self-described ‘nationalist’ speaks at anti-trans rights rally on Victoria parliament steps, Benita Kolovos, The Guardian, March 26, 2024. TLDR : Mr Trihey denies being a neo-Nazi and apologises for drawing undue attention to his presence … Continue reading →

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #200 w Andy Fleming & Cam Smith : March 21, 2024

Posted on March 20, 2024 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we celebrate our 200th episode by talking to each other about stuff, including by way of providing inadequate answers to the questions posed by YOU, the listener! Other podcasts/publications mentioned: • 12 … Continue reading →

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Lady Parker & Co. ~vs~ John Pesutto

Posted on March 18, 2024 by @ndy

It’s been 12 months since the English grifter known as Lady Posie Parker staged an anti-trans rally and publicity stunt outside the Victorian state parliament. This was the rally/stunt at which, notoriously, she was joined — ‘gatecrashed’, in Australian media … Continue reading →

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Statement by anti-fascists in (so-called) Australia on the fifth anniversary of the Christchurch attack of March 15, 2019

Posted on March 16, 2024 by @ndy

Anti-fascists gathered in a number of Australian cities yesterday to mark the fifth anniversary of the Christchurch massacre and issued the following statement: Five years on, we gathered across ‘Australia’ to honour the victims and survivors of the terrorist attack … Continue reading →

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anarchist notes (march 14, 2024) : anarchism and world systems analysis /// class struggle in sweden

Posted on March 14, 2024 by @ndy

Anarcho-syndicalist Piper Tompkins is visiting (so-called) Australia and talking world-systems theory: Anarchism and World Systems Analysis ‘Piper Tompkins is a trans anarcho-syndicalist who writes and makes videos about politics, philosophy, and social science. Piper will be presenting on the anarchist … Continue reading →

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