Yeah Nah, Nah Yeah, It’s The 2025 3CR Radiothon!

Welcome to the RADIOTHON edition of Yeah Nah Pasaran!

4.30pm, June 12, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus

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Another day, another nazi publicity stunt, this time @ Northland (plus an anti-racist response)

Briefly:

I’ve been meaning to post an update about the media antics of Tom Sewell’s National Socialist Network (and the Australian far right generally) for some time but … haven’t. In any case, a few days ago, the boys got a little publicity courtesy of a photo-shoot they staged early one morning/late one night at Northland shopping centre. The stunt — intended to take advantage of previous media reportage regarding a brawl at the mall — followed the usual pattern: the boys pop up unannounced somewhere, pose, generate some online content for the purpose of grooming vulnerable teens then, just as quickly, depart. Then follows SHOCK! HORROR! headlines and angry complaints and — after hopefully generating multiple inquiries — the NSN repeats the cycle.

Tom Tanuki explains:

In response to the stunt, the local branch of the Victorian Socialists have organised a public rally to denounce Nazism, fascism and racism:

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anarchy on the airwaves (and podcasts)

Huh.

According to Some Website, Yeah Nah Pasaran! is one of the ‘Best 50 Anarchist Podcasts’ going. FWIW, it’s an odd compilation: there’s only 42, not 50, podcasts listed, only some of which could be considered anarchist, with a number of others being some (other) species of leftist or radikal (or indeed proprietarian). In addition, missing from the list are a number of fairly well-established anarchist podcasts. In any case, the listing prompted me to review what’s actually Out There

To begin with, and based on the compilation referred to above, there’s:

ABC With Danny and Jim: ‘A podcast for discussions of radical history books and interviews with historians.’
Anarchist World This Week: Dr Joe Toscano presents ‘an anarchist analysis on local, national and international news and events. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network’.
A-Radio Network: ‘A platform of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios.’
Audible Anarchism: ‘A podcast broadcasting Anarchist texts and audiobooks.’
The Beautiful Idea: (via It’s Going Down).
Channel Zero: ‘Channel Zero Network is an anarchist radio/podcast network run by radical media makers.’
Everyday Anarchism: ‘How does anarchist philosophy apply to our everyday lives? Every other week, we’ll discuss why a piece of your life or culture is all about Mutual Aid.’
The Ex-Worker: ‘A Podcast of Anarchist Ideas and Action For Everyone Who Dreams of a Life Off the Clock’ (via CrimethInc).
The Final Straw Radio: is a weekly anarchist radio show.

There’s also the following (non-exhaustive, English-language) radio shows/podcasts, which are either explicitly anarchist (or broadly sympathetic), and/or discuss subjects of interest to anarchists and other anti-authoritarians from a radikal perspective.

Anarchist Essays: ‘Brought to you by Loughborough University’s Anarchism Research Group (ARG), Anarchist Essays presents leading academics, activists, and thinkers exploring themes in anarchist theory, history, and practice.’
anarchysf: is ‘an open-source repository of anarchist or anarchy-adjacent science fiction’, including a podcast.
Black Autonomy: is ‘a series of discussions on anarchism and the relevance of its revolutionary ideals to the ongoing Black Liberation Movement. The show is hosted by JoNina Abron-Ervin and Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, two veteran organizers, former Black Panther Party members and co-founders of the Black Autonomy Federation.’
Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff: ‘As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free.’ Hosted by Margaret Killjoy.
Cool Zone Media: hosts a number of relevant podcasts, including Behind The Bastards.
The Dugout: is ‘a podcast of radical thought, dissent, and liberation, hosted by Jordan and Prince — two unapologetically Black anarchist hosts’.
Freedom News: is a venerable anarchist publisher.
From The Periphery: is ‘a worker-owned media collective focusing on centering voices, struggles, and ideas that are otherwise made peripheral under mainstream journalism’, and hosts a number of podcasts.
Indymedia: on Perth’s RTR is a weekly radio show and podcast, exploring news and views from the radical grassroots.
Last Born In The Wilderness: is ‘a podcast about transitions, death, the ruptures of life in between.’
Live Like the World is Dying: is ‘your podcast for what feels like the end times’, hosted by Margaret Killjoy.
Movement Memos: is a Truthout podcast, hosted by Kelly Hayes, who ‘connects with activists, journalists and others on the front lines’.
• The Non Serviam Media Collective is dedicated to ‘exploring the world of anarchist and anti-authoritarian ideas’.
• The Wobbly One Big Podcast is committed to One Big Union.
Propaganda By the Seed: is a ‘podcast about perennial plants and trees associated with food forests, permaculture, and restorative agriculture’.
• Seeds of Revolution: is the podcast published by Camas Books & Infoshop, ‘founded in 2007 to support the decolonization struggles of Indigenous peoples in the region known as British Columbia and beyond’.
The Skeptical Leftist: is a podcast that promotes ‘critical thinking, social justice, and left wing politics by covering current events and talking to a variety of people’.
SRSLY WRONG: is wrogn, utopian and leftist.
sub.media: hosts several podcasts, including Circle (A).
• The Working Class History podcast is ‘about all of those who have fought for a better world’.

See/hear also : Podcasts about (and of relevance to understanding) fascism and the far-right … (March 8, 2021).

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Yeah Nah Pasaran #250 w Jeff Sparrow on the Fascists still Among Us : May 22, 2025

Three cheers and a loud huzzah, it’s our 250th episode this week. To mark the occasion, this week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Jeff Sparrow [Bluesky], who was our very first guest in January 2020. Among other titles, Jeff is the author of Fascists Among Us: Online Hate and the Christchurch Massacre (Scribe, 2019) and more recently, with Sam Wallman, 12 Rules for Strife (Scribe, 2024). Five years after his first appearance, we spoke to Jeff about what’s changed in the political terrain and the state of the fascists still among us.

See also : Jeff @ The Monthly /// ‘A future of dust’ – Jeff Sparrow on Gaza and why, in evil times, writers have a responsibility to take sides, The Conversation, December 6, 2024.

4.30pm, May 22, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus

• This episode will be available as a podcast on Apple, Spotify and other platforms after broadcast.
• We also have a Facebook page for the show, which you’re invited to ‘Like’ and to ‘Follow’, although because the anti-social platform is bloody awful, chances are you’ll never notice it.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran #249 w Paris Marx on Techno-fascism : May 15, 2025

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Paris Marx [Bluesky]. Paris is a podcaster — Tech Won’t Save Us /// System Crashwriter, speaker, and the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation (Verso, forthcoming). We spoke to Paris about why tech is *checks notes* killing us.

4.30pm, May 15, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus

• This episode will be available as a podcast on Apple, Spotify and other platforms after broadcast.
• We also have a Facebook page for the show, which you’re invited to ‘Like’ and to ‘Follow’, although because the anti-social platform is bloody awful, chances are you’ll never notice it.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran #248 w Kate Burns on MAGA Christianity : May 8, 2025

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Kate Burns [Bluesky]. Kate is a regular contributor to Left Coast Right Watch who keeps a keen eye on Christian nationalism and was a previous guest of ours in March 2023.

See also : Plots & Prayers: Hate Preachers Networking With Alleged Rapists, White House, Kate Burns, LCRW, April 28, 2025.

4.30pm, May 8, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus

• This episode will be available as a podcast on Apple, Spotify and other platforms after broadcast.
• We also have a Facebook page for the show, which you’re invited to ‘Like’ and to ‘Follow’, although because the anti-social platform is bloody awful, chances are you’ll never notice it.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran It’s May Day! #247 w Jason Wilson : May Day, 2025

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Jason Wilson [Bluesky]. We last spoke to Mr Wilson in January, and thought we’d check in again to see inter alia how workers in the US are faring under Mr Trump & Mr Vance’s very stAble, much pro-working class regime.

4.30pm, May Day, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus

• This episode will be available as a podcast on Apple, Spotify and other platforms after broadcast.
• We also have a Facebook page for the show, which you’re invited to ‘Like’ and to ‘Follow’, although because the anti-social platform is bloody awful, chances are you’ll never notice it.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #246 w Talia Lavin on Great, Christian America (Again) : April 24, 2025

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Talia Lavin [Bluesky]. Talia is the author of Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America (about which we spoke to her in October last year) and a journalist, whose most recent article for the New Republic is Why Neo-Nazis Are Obsessed With the Occult (April 20, 2025). We spoke to Talia about how Great America is under Trump and an administration in which the Christian Right assumes a critical role.

See also : The Authoritarian State in Miniature: A conversation with author Talia Lavin on Christian Nationalists’ 50-Year Plan to Capture the Country, Shane Burley, In These Times, April 21, 2025.

4.30pm, Thursday, April 24, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus

• This episode will be available as a podcast on Apple, Spotify and other platforms after broadcast.
• We also have a Facebook page for the show, which you’re invited to ‘Like’ and to ‘Follow’, although because the anti-social platform is bloody awful, chances are you’ll never notice it.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #245 w Rachel Withers on the 2025 Australian federal election : April 17, 2025

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Rachel Withers [Bluesky]. Rachel is a freelance journalist who regularly writes for Crikey and is a previous guest on the show. This time, we talked to Rachel about some of the minor trumpets and patriots, cookers and PHONys running for high office, along with a few of the Issues that are (not) being talked about as animating the electorate.

See also : Grifters or true believers: Will minor right-wing parties surge this election?, Rachel Withers, Crikey, April 10, 2025.

4.30pm, Thursday, April 17, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus

• This episode will be available as a podcast on Apple, Spotify and other platforms after broadcast.
• We also have a Facebook page for the show, which you’re invited to ‘Like’ and to ‘Follow’, although because the anti-social platform is bloody awful, chances are you’ll never notice it.

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Left, right, left, right : token 2025 Australian federal election effortpost

Might as well, because …

… underneath the big top, it is, election time again. And, as usual, there’s no shortage of eggsperts, partisans and pollsters to pay attention to (or to ignore). In any case, I thought I’d note that there’s a few points of interest inre (minor) candidates running for a seat.

For socialists, sadly, the Socialist Equality Party failed to qualify for federal registration — and so cannot run/jog/walk under that banner — but a few are having a crack nonetheless. In addition, the Socialist Alliance is running candidates in NSW, QLD, VIC and WA, while in VIC the Victorian Socialists are also in the mix. Oh, and AFAIK, the ACP, CPA and CPA (ML) are out of the race on May 3 and while the Communist League declared Robert Aiken as their candidate for the Senate … ah … I can find no confirmation of this on the AEC website.

Oh and (Dr) Joe Toscano is running in Flinders.

On the (far) right, (Dr) Jim Saleam (Australia First) is Independently losing in Lindsay; PHONy is fielding numerous other bizarr0s; the La Rouchites are running as Citizens and billionaire Clive Palmer is throwing countless millions trumpeting nobodies in a range of seats across Australian real estate. In addition, Great Australian and ex-PHONy Rod Culleton is running (along with a handful of other Great Ones), while (Senator) Gerard Rennick is hoping to keep his seat in the senate and putting People &/Or Property First in a range of others (Upper and Lower).

See also : Federal 2025: Classifying The Independents, (Dr) Kevin Bonham, April 13, 2025 /// Australian Federal Election Betting Odds (TAB) /// Blatantly Partisan Party Reviews by André Brett.

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