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

Posted on April 15, 2025 by @ndy

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

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

Posted on April 13, 2025 by @ndy

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).

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #244 w Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc on The History of Fascism & the Far Right in Ireland : April 10, 2025

Posted on April 7, 2025 by @ndy

Last week’s episode was a repeat, but …

… this week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc. (Dr) Pádraig is an historian and the author of numerous books, including most recently The Disappeared: Forced Disappearances in Ireland 1798-1998 (Irish Academic Press, 2024) and Burn Them Out: A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland, published by Bloomsbury this year.

In Burn Them Out!, Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc explores the long history that has led to this pivotal moment. He uncovers the pervasive anti-Semitism of the Irish political elite in the 1920s and 30s, the energetic efforts of Mosley and other British fascists to extend their movement to the North of Ireland, the IRA’s alliance with Nazi Germany in the 40s and the many ultra-Catholic, anti-communist Irish movements that were millimetres away from fascism. He tells the story of exotic entities like the Fascio di Dublino, the Dublin branch of Mussolini’s Fascist Party, and the Irish wing of Miss Rotha Lintorn-Orman’s ‘British Fascisti’.

We spoke to Pádraig about this history and also some aspects of the contemporary far-right’s activities in Ireland, including its involvement in and influence upon the 2022– anti-immigrant protests and riots.

See also : AFA Ireland [CrackBook] /// Ireland against Fascism [BlueSky] | How misinformation and far-right groups sparked a riot in Dublin after the stabbing of three children at a school, EDMO, November 28, 2023 /// Brittle Opposition, Daniel Finn, New Left Review (Sidecar), December 5, 2024 /// Conor McGregor will not face charges over social media posts made before and during Dublin riots, Diarmuid Pepper, The Journal, March 27, 2025.

4.30pm, Thursday, April 10, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #243 w Richard Seymour on Disaster Nationalism : March 27, 2025

Posted on March 26, 2025 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Richard Seymour [Bluesky]. Richard is a writer, editor and broadcaster, and his latest book is titled Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization (Verso, 2024):

The rise of the new far right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic leaders such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, the true peril lies elsewhere. Defeating these people will not stem the tide driving them forward. They are merely the embodiment of profound forces that are rarely understood. Propelled through the vast networks of social media and fueled by far-right influencers, enthralled by images of disaster and fantasies of doom, they have emerged from a reservoir of societal despair, fear, and isolation. Within this seething cauldron, we witness not only the surge of far-right political movements but also the sparks of individual and collective violence against perceived enemies, from ‘lone wolf’ killers to terrifying pogroms. Should a new fascism emerge, it will coalesce from these very elements. This is disaster nationalism.

See also : Salvage: ‘a bi-annual journal of revolutionary arts and letters’ /// The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism, Fredy Perlman (1984).

4.30pm, Thursday, March 27, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #242 w Byron C Clark on Christchurch & Destiny : March 20, 2025

Posted on March 18, 2025 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Byron C Clark [Bluesky]. Byron is the author of Fear: New Zealand’s hostile underworld of extremists (HarperCollins, 2023), about which we spoke with him two years ago. He also maintains the blog Feijoa Dispatch, where ‘Byron Clark and guest writers look at disinformation and the alt-right’. On this occasion, we spoke to him about the (sixth anniversary of the) Christchurch massacre, Destiny Church’s campaigns against LGBTQ+ rights and more.

4.30pm, Thursday, March 20, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #241 w Craig Johnson on ‘How to Talk to Your Son about Fascism’ : March 13, 2025

Posted on March 12, 2025 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Craig Johnson [Bluesky]. Craig is the host of the podcast ‘Fifteen Minutes of Fascism’, a ‘researcher of the right-wing with a focus on fascism and other extreme right-wing political groups in Latin America, Europe, and the US, especially Catholic ones’, and the author of How to Talk to Your Son about Fascism (Routledge, 2025):

How to Talk to Your Son about Fascism is a practical guide for parents, carers, and others with young men in their lives on how to talk with those young men about fascism and the right-wing, which specifically and particularly preys on them for recruitment.

Its central goal is to present research, history, and analysis about how and why the right-wing recruits young men to parents, educators, and anyone with a young person in their lives. The book covers the history of right-wing recruitment of young men, explaining why the right-wing focuses on recruiting men both on a theoretical basis and through the logic of movement-building, and then moves to practical analysis and suggestions for how to counter recruitment today. Recommendations come from excerpts and existing scholarship. Readers will come out of the book with a better understanding of what fascism is and how it works, how it preys on young men, how it recruits and appeals to them, and how to stop this from happening.

This book will be of interest to antifascist researchers and activists, as well as parents, carers, and the general reader concerned about the rise of the extreme right.

See/hear also : Trump’s Coalition Is More Than Just Conservative, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, March 3, 2025 | Podcast: How to Talk to Your Son About Fascism with Dr. Craig Johnson, Freedom Over Fascism, March 3, 2025 | AMA: Craig Johnson, researcher of the right-wing, author of How to Talk to Your Son about Fascism | The Groypers’ Battle Within the GOP, Craig Johnson, Jacobin, January 20, 2025 /// Fifteen Minutes of Fascism.

4.30pm, Thursday, March 13, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #240 w Kaz Ross on conspiracies, Trump, Bannon & more : March 6, 2025

Posted on March 6, 2025 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Kaz Ross [X/Twitter]. Kaz researches far-right extremism, conspiracies and China, recently had published Stupid? Deluded? Uneducated? Why ordinary people get hooked on conspiracy theories (The Age, February 25, 2025), and was a previous guest of ours in October 2023.

4.30pm, Thursday, March 6, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #239 w Michael Colborne on Active Clubs (and more) : February 27, 2025

Posted on February 25, 2025 by @ndy

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This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Michael Colborne. Michael is a ‘journalist focused on the transnational far right’ whom we last spoke to in February 2021. Then we talked about the Azov Battalion; on this occasion we discussed Mike Burgess’ specialised subject ‘Active Clubs‘, Benson & Hedges, Hammerskins, boneheads, and more Very Fine People. Michael’s recent writing for Bellingcat includes:

Neo-Nazis Linked to “Terrorist Activities” to Host Budapest Concert, January 30 2025 /// The Small Bulgarian Streetwear Shop Designing Clothes for the Far-Right ‘Active Club’ Movement, October 9, 2024 /// To Blur Or Not To Blur: Exposing Finland’s Lakeside Neo-Nazi Meetup, July 11, 2024 /// Geolocating a US Far-Right Fight Night, March 15, 2024 /// How A Sailboat Exposed a Dutch Cell of the White Supremacist Active Club Movement, February 7, 2024.

4.30pm, Thursday, February 27, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #238 w Gareth Gore on Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church : February 20, 2025

Posted on February 18, 2025 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Gareth Gore [Bluesky]. Gareth is a journalist and the author of Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church (Simon & Schuster, October 2024):

A thrilling exposé recounting how members of Opus Dei—a secretive, ultra-conservative Catholic sect—pushed its radical agenda within the Church and around the globe, using billions of dollars siphoned from one of the world’s largest banks.

See also : Opus reviewed by Braham Dabscheck, Newtown Review of Books, October 8, 2024 /// Opus Dei and the Moneybags Kid, Gareth Gore, Rolling Stone, September 28, 2024 | VIDEO: Dominic Perrottet apologises for wearing a Nazi uniform, ABC, January 12, 2023 /// In God they trust, The Sydney Morning Herald, April 12, 2004.

4.30pm, Thursday, February 20, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #237 w Katherine Stewart on Money, Lies, and God : February 13, 2025

Posted on February 11, 2025 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Katherine Stewart [Bluesky]. Katherine is a journalist (whom we spoke to in July 2022 about Christian nationalism) and the author of Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy (Bloomsbury, 2025):

Why have so many Americans turned against democracy? In this deeply reported book, Katherine Stewart takes us to conferences of conspiracy-mongers, backroom strategy gatherings, and services at extremist churches, and profiles the people who want to tear it all down. She introduces us to reactionary Catholic activists, atheist billionaires, pseudo-Platonist intellectuals, self-appointed apostles of Jesus, disciples of Ayn Rand, women-hating opponents of “the gynocracy,” pronatalists preoccupied with the dearth of white babies, Covid truthers, militia members masquerading as “concerned moms” and battalions of spirit warriors who appear to be inventing a new style of religion even as they set about attacking democracy at its foundations.

4.30pm, Thursday, February 13, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus

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