Category Archives: Poetry

is a dirty job
and i can’t do it

Pope Fred is dead! Long live Pope Fred!

I recently learned that a local (Naarm) anarchist called ‘Pope Fred’ has died. I’ve no doubt others will have reflections, but to mark his passing from this realm to the next, it seemed appropriate to make a blogpost. Assuming the … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #171 w Max Kaiser on Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism : July 27, 2023

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Max Kaiser [Twitter] about Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) which: takes a timely look at histories of radical Jewish movements, their modes of Holocaust … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #166 w Bill Peel on Black Metal, Red Politics : June 22, 2023

June is Radiothon Month at Melbourne community radio station 3CR. We’ve published a fundraiser on GiveNow to which you’re welcome to contribute and help keep community radio on the air. This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Bill … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #150 w Kirsten Dyck on Reichsrock & White-Power Music : February 16, 2023

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Kirsten Dyck about her book Reichsrock: The International Web of White-Power and Neo-Nazi Hate Music (Rutgers University Press, 2016): Reichsrock shines a light on the international white-power music industry, the fandoms … Continue reading

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Who is Australibus Tenebris?

There is a rising worldwide clash between a renewed, internationally backed fascism and those fighting for a better future. Subcultural scenes are no exception, with many now locked in wars of ideas of varying intensity. In these cauldrons of turmoil, … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #144 w Alex Newhouse on accelerationism : December 8, 2022

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Alex Newhouse [Mastodon]. Alex is Deputy Director at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at Middlebury Institute of International Studies and Director of Technical of Research … Continue reading

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Catalyst Social Centre Weekend of Connection & Resistance (NOV 11–13, 2022)

The recently-opened Catalyst Social Centre (144–146 Sydney Road, Coburg) is hosting a festival this weekend. Organised by the The Cafe Collective it’s a free 3 day festival of connection and resistance over the weekend of 11-13 of November. The program … Continue reading

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Don’t Go To Sydney (Festival)

[Update (April 27, 2023) : From IGA to the ARIAs – via Glastonbury and Gucci: Amy Taylor’s rockin’ rise, Konrad Marshall, The Sydney Morning Herald, December 3, 2022: ‘They opened the Sydney Festival in January [2022], for instance, unaware the … Continue reading

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Blogging 2021 : A Summary

See also : Blogging 2020 : A Summary. January (5) A flying start: three posts dedicated to Yeah Nah Pasaran! (interviews with Becca Lewis, Marc-André Argentino and Megan Kelly) plus one taking note of a failed coup and another about … Continue reading

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Better Read Than Dead ~versus~ Retail & Fast Food Workers Union

TLDR : heaps progressive bookshop ‘Better Read Than Dead’ in Newtown, Sydney is currently trying to stop workers from joining a union and obtaining minimal wages and conditions, viz: … their first ever enterprise agreement to secure the most basic … Continue reading

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