Lady Parker & Co. ~vs~ John Pesutto


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 parlance — by Tom Sewell and members of his National Socialist Network. You may remember them from such episodes as ‘Don’t Go To Sydney’ and ‘Good Luck, Gentlemen’.

See : “Posie Parker, you can’t hide. You’ve got Nazis on your side.” and Who were the neo-Nazis at Posie Parker’s rally in Melbourne?.

Having been booted from the party room in the aftermath of this extraordinary performance, Moira Deeming MP is currently suing Victorian Liberals party leader John Pesutto for defamation (TLDR: ‘He called me a Nazi’). Today, it was announced that Deeming will be joined by Parker and rally organiser Angie Jones. Reportedly, they’ll be represented in court by failed Tory candidate for Warringah (2022) Katherine Deves.

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



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 on Ōtautahi/Christchurch mosques by Australian neo-Nazi Brenton Tarrant on 15 March 2019. We express our solidarity with Muslims in Aotearoa New Zealand and in ‘Australia’, where we recognise a dangerous climate of increasing Islamophobia and anti-Arab hatred. Tarrant was first radicalised here in Australia in a similar climate. The neo-Nazis who he donated to and who tried to recruit him, continue to operate with impunity. Confronting fascism, Nazism and racism in our cities and towns remains our duty as antifascists.

Ahad Nabi, son of the martyr Haji-Daoud Nabi (who greeted the terrorist with “Hello, brother” and was then gunned down) gave this victim impact statement in 2020:

“You deserve to be buried in a landfill. This world was created with colour, a peasant like you will never change the human race. Your wish is to make this world a racist cult of one colour, but you will never succeed…I ask that he be put in mainstream prison and stop wasting taxpayer money on giving him special treatment and protection. And coming back to this maggot, I would like to say that my 71-year-old dad would have broke you in half if you challenged him to a fight. But you are weak, a sheep with a wolf’s jacket on, for only ten minutes of your whole life. I’m strong, and you made me even stronger. Allahu Akbar.”

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

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 movement and the social science of world-systems analysis. The presentation will explore the historical development of capitalism and anarchism as well as some of the fundamental ideas of world-systems analysis.’

Brisbane
6.30pm, Wednesday March 20
Common House
74b Wickham Terrace, Fortitude Valley

Sydney
6.30pm, Friday March 22
Jura Books
440 Parramatta Road, Petersham

Adelaide
6.30pm, Wednesday March 27
Hutt Street Library
235 Hutt Street

Melbourne
3.00pm, Saturday March 30
Temple Park Community Centre
24 Gray Street, Brunswick

*The Melbourne presentation is part of a series of four. For more details, please see : Anarchism 2024.

Presented by : Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation.

Also dropping by Down Under is a member of the SAC, to discuss class struggle in Sweden:

Class Struggle in Sweden

‘Considered the ‘successful’ example of social democracy, class conflict in Sweden is often overlooked. Join Cim-Héloïse from the executive committee of the Central Organisation of Swedish Workers (SAC) to discuss the history and practice of anarchism, syndicalism, and class struggle in Sweden and the lessons for unionists and revolutionaries in Australia today.’

Melbourne
3.00pm, Saturday March 30
Catalyst
144 Sydney Road, Coburg

Brisbane
6.00pm, Friday April 12
Common House
74b Wickham Terrace, Fortitude Valley

Presented by : Anarchist Communists Meanjin | Geelong Anarchist Communists | Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #199 w Dr Claudia Leeb on Contesting the Far Right : March 14, 2024

    Next week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! will be our 200th. We’ll be doing some kinda AMA so if you have any questions you’d like answered, feel free to ask. All previous episodes are available for listening on the 3CR website or by way of your favourite (Apple, Spotify etc.) podcasting platform.

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Dr Claudia Leeb. Claudia is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at Washington State University and works at the intersection of early Frankfurt school critical theory, feminist political theory, and psychoanalytic theory to address questions of power and socio-political change in contemporary societies. Claudia is also the author of the forthcoming title Contesting the Far Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach (Columbia University Press, 2024):

Why have so many people responded to the insecurity, exploitation, alienation, and isolation of precarity capitalism by supporting the far right? In this timely book, Claudia Leeb argues that psychoanalytic and feminist critical theory illuminates how economic and psychological factors interact to produce this extreme political shift.

We spoke to Claudia about the book and how critical theory and psychoanalytic approaches to the far right can help illuminate our responses, Austria and identitarianism, Trump and the AltRight.

See also : Far-Right Leader Martin Sellner Emailed With New Zealand Mosque Shooter Months Before Massacre, Kelly Weill, The Daily Beast, May 15, 2019 | The Christchurch Attacks: Livestream Terror in the Viral Video Age, Graham Macklin, CTC Sentinel, Vol.12, No.6, July 2019 | Who is Martin Sellner, the identitarian inspiring Europe’s far right?, Jean-Baptiste Chastand, Le Monde, January 20, 2024 /// Rehabilitating fascists : Lauren Southern, Sky News & Media Diversity (September 22, 2020).

4.30pm, Thursday, March 14, 2024 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #198 w Audrey Truschke on Hindutva & history : March 7, 2024

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Dr Audrey Truschke [Bluesky, X/Twitter]. Audrey is a Professor of South Asian history at Rutgers University whose work has brought her to the attention of Hindu nationalists. We spoke to her about her work on South Asian history, encounters with Hindutva and the importance of defending academic freedom.

See also : ‘Modi is the boss’: Australian leader gives India’s prime minister a rock star welcome, Rhea Moghul, CNN, May 24, 2023 | How a Hindu temple built on the remains of an ancient mosque at Ayodhya could help Narendra Modi win this year’s election, Avani Dias, Meghna Bali, and Som Patidar, ABC, January 23, 2024 | Research on the Hindu Far-Right in the US | Hindutva Harassment Field Manual | Yeah Nah Pasaran! #134 w Raja of The Humanism Project on Hindutva : September 29, 2022 /// Yeah Nah Pasaran! #016 w Eviane Leidig on the far-right, India & The West : April 30, 2020 /// Yeah Nah Pasaran! #005 w Shuddhabrata Sengupta on BJP, CAA, Delhi & fascism in India : February 13, 2020.

4.30pm, Thursday, March 7, 2024 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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antifa notes (march 1, 2024) : nazi gym metal feelings place

No-go nazi gymbros!

Last month, Brimbank council announced that the lease on Tim Lutze’s Legacy Boxing Gym in Sunshine West had expired and would not be renewed. Used for several years by the National Socialist Network (NSN) as a training centre and sometime headquarters, the group now seeks a new home.

Speaking of the NSN, after parading through Sydney in late January, the NSN lvl boss, Tom Sewell, was treated to a rather odd profile in The Daily Telegraph in early February. Hence: ‘As more is uncovered about the leader of Australia’s neo-Nazi movement, it can be revealed Thomas Sewell was once in business with Asian men.’ TLDR: in 2016, Sewell, James Buckle and two Asian men established a company known as Compass One Pty Ltd. The company formally ceased operations on March 15, 2019: a rather infamous date (especially for Kiwis like Sewell). Of the 2019 massacre (Christchurch terrorist posted publicly about plans before attack, Mark Daadler, newsroom, February 20, 2024): ‘A small team of researchers at the University of Auckland has found years of posts from the terrorist behind the March 15, 2019 attack on two Christchurch mosques, disproving the notion that he had not been active on extremist forums’.

The Daily Telegraph article also notes that in 2022 the Balwyn Gauleiter established a roofing and plumbing business. This news is sure to delight the plumbers’ union (PPTEU), whose successful campaign to overturn a proposed ban on duck hunting — one spearheaded by their comrades in the ETU — also generated support by Sewell’s erstwhile comrade Mr Buckle.

H e a v y metal

A few weeks ago (February 10), a heavy metal gig at the Leadbeater in Richmond was cancelled. Featuring Grave Upheaval, Cemetery Urn, Munitions, Petrol and Cult of the Night, the show also starred a band called Haste, formerly known as Gurn, one closely associated with NS/BM label and distro Australibus Tenebris. The cancellation triggered the usual response from upset consumers but — on a brighter, shinier, happier note — I understand that there’s Over 666 metal gigs happening in Naarm/Melbourne in any given year, so fingers crossed those frowns will, eventually, be turned upside-down.

Or not.

Coincidentally, triple j’s ‘Hack’ has published a piece on the Dark side of metal (April McLennan, February 28, 2024). It refers to a number of bands, including Ignis Gehenna, Spear of Longinus and (quasi-metal) Black Magick SS. Weirdly, while reference is made to a failed attempt by the NSN to disrupt an anti-fascist benefit gig in September last year, no positive connection is made between this incident and elsewhere in the article when reference is made to the same mob of Hitler Yoof marching through Sydney (and through Ballarat in December last year).

All The McFeels

In the United States, ‘Jazzhands McFeels’, host of the ‘Fash the Nation’ podcast on the ‘The Right Stuff’ (TRS) neo-Nazi propaganda network, was recently revealed as being a 41-year-old ex-Republican rich kid called Robert Warren Gasiewicz of Stuart, Florida. You may remember TRS from such luminaries as Mike Peinovich (‘Mike Enoch’) or its abortive political project, the ‘National Justice Party’ (NJP). The implosion of the NJP — a batshit outfit well-regarded by the bRanes trust at David Hiscox’s recently-revived neo-Nazi blog XYZ — is examined by the hosts of another podcast, ‘I Don’t Speak German’, who’ve returned to the virtual airwaves with an episode dedicated to the NJP’s collapse: ‘We’re back. It’s cool. What isn’t cool is the National Justice Party. Because it doesn’t exist any more. And it wasn’t cool when it did. It was shit. And that’s why … well, listen to the episode.’ See also : This Podcaster Dug Into the World of Neo-Nazis. Now They’ve Put a Target on Him., Nick R. Martin, The Daily Beast, October 20, 2019.

Mein Place

Tomorrow, local cooker Darren Bergwerf will discover whether or not his brave stance in favour of truth and freedom will see him finally assume his rightful place in the Victorian parliament … or be usurped by the dastardly Victorian Socialists.

See also : Dutton and Ley chastised for using immigration detainee’s mistaken arrest ahead of Dunkley by-election, Jake Evans, ABC, March 1, 2024.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #197 w Arun Kundnani on What is Antiracism? And Why it Means Anticapitalism : February 29, 2024

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Arun Kundnani [Twitter/X] on his latest book What is Antiracism? And Why it Means Anticapitalism (Verso, 2023):

Today, liberal antiracism has proven powerless against structural oppression. As Arun Kundnani demonstrates, white liberals can heroically confront their own whiteness all they want, yet these structures remain.

This deeply researched and swift-moving narrative history tells the story of the two antiracisms and their fates. As neoliberalism reordered the world in the last decades of the twentieth century, the case became clear: fighting racism means striking at its capitalist roots.

See/hear also : Radical vs Liberal Antiracism, Against the Grain (KPFA), February 5, 2024 | There are two kinds of antiracism. Only one works, and it has nothing to do with ‘diversity training’, Arun Kundnani, The Guardian, June 29, 2023.

4.30pm, Thursday, February 29, 2024 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #196 w Rae Jereza on digital labour, race, anti-social media (and guns) : February 22, 2024

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Rae Jereza. Rae is a non-binary, Filipino-American anthropologist working in North America whose research is at the intersection of race, digital technologies, and digital labor in the U.S.. (They also can has two cool cats: Boopy and Christmas Boy.) We spoke to Rae about digital labour on the content farms of Meta, race, guns in the U.S., and more.

See also : The Cissexist Assemblages of Content Moderation, GNET, December 12, 2022 | “I’m not this Person”: Racism, content moderators, and protecting and denying voice online, New Media & Society, 2022 | Sacked Twitter staff in Ghana finally get pay-off, Nkechi Ogbonna, BBC, February 19, 2024.

4.30pm, Thursday, February 22, 2024 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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#ausunions on Gaza

In October and then again in November I gave brief consideration on the response of Australian unions to the war on Gaza. Months later, with the death toll (overwhelmingly civilian), officially having reached 29,000 (with the fate of many thousands of others unaccounted for but presumably also killed and buried under rubble), tens of thousands of others wounded, the Occupied Territory and its institutions — schools, hospitals, residences, places of worship and so on — pulverised, little has changed, nor is there any reasonable expectation that it will.

That said …

On Thursday in Melbourne, members of the Australian Services Union (organised via ASU 4 Palestine) have declared that they’ll be staging a walkout in order to pressure employers in the services and community sector to join them in calling for a ceasefire. The walkout takes place almost twelve months after hundreds of members of the Electrical Trades Union in Victoria walked off the job in order to protest a proposed ban on duck hunting. This walk-off formed part of a wider campaign, supported by the so-called BIG (Building Industrial Gorup) of unions: the AMWU, CFMMEU, ETU and PPTEU. The million-dollar public relations campaign was effective: the state government ignored the recommendations of the inquiry to institute a ban, and electricians, plumbers and others can continue to enjoy shooting ducks this year.

See also : ASU 4 Palestine | Unionists for Palestine | Australian unionists come down strongly in support of Palestinians, Oscar Kaspi-Crutchett, Plus61J, February 17, 2024.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #195 w Tarek Younis on The Muslim, State & Mind : February 15, 2024

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Tarek Younis [X/Twitter]. Tarek is a lecturer at Middlesex University and a psychologist who writes about psychology, culture, race, religion and power. His latest book is The Muslim, State and Mind: Psychology in Times of Islamophobia (SAGE, 2022) which we spoke to him about in this episode.

See also : How Australian undercover police ‘fed’ an autistic 13-year-old’s fixation with Islamic State, Nino Bucci, The Guardian, February 3, 2024.

4.30pm, Thursday, February 15, 2024 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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