Yeah Nah Pasaran #256 w Annie Kelly on QAnon & UK 2025 : July 17, 2025

Posted on July 17, 2025 by @ndy

A YUGE thank you to everybody who donated to YNP! and 3CR during this year’s radiothon: we managed to raise over $5,000 for the station, and your money will help keep radical radio on the air for another year.

This week — today, in fact — on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Annie Kelly [Bluesky]. Annie is the UK correspondent for the QAA podcast who researches ‘antifeminism, conspiracy theories and the far right’. We first spoke to Annie way back in October 2020 and, almost five years later, we thought we’d check in to discover if anything Q-related has happened during the interim …

See/hear also : Even Conspiracy Theorists Are Alarmed by What They’ve Seen, Annie Kelly, The New York Times, August 4, 2023 /// QAnon and on (‘An ever-evolving conspiracy theory built on denial’), Annie Kelly, The Sociological Review, May 10, 2022 /// Everything is Connected /// Cursed Media & Science in Transition.

4.30pm, July 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.

PS. Last week we spoke to Jason Wilson but I was unable to blog about it. Episode #255, like others, will be available as a podcast on the 3CR website or wherever you get yr pods.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran #254 w Joey Watson on Secrets We Keep & “Lone Actors” : July 3, 2025

Posted on July 1, 2025 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Joey Watson [Bluesky] about his new podcast series Secrets We Keep: Lone Actor.

‘In 2019, a 28-year-old Australian terrorist live-streamed himself murdering 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch New Zealand, sending shockwaves around the world. It was the deadliest act of right-wing extremist violence committed by an Australian. As journalist Joey Watson speaks with survivors and researchers, he begins to uncover a more complex story. What, or who, led the terrorist to violence? In Secrets We Keep: Lone Actor, Joey sets out to retrace the terrorist’s trajectory in the years leading up to the attack.’

See/hear also : Yeah Nah Pasaran! #242 w Byron C Clark on Christchurch & Destiny : March 20, 2025 /// Yeah Nah Pasaran! #201 w Chris Wilson on the Christchurch terrorist, Australia & 4chan : March 28, 2024 /// Statement by anti-fascists in (so-called) Australia on the fifth anniversary of the Christchurch attack of March 15, 2019 /// antifa notes (march 20, 2019) : From Christchurch to Canberra.

4.30pm, July 3, 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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nazi meatheads @ mr boogie man bar in abbotsford : june 28, 2025

Posted on June 27, 2025 by @ndy

I was today made aware of the fact that a shitty metal gig is taking place at Mr Boogie Man Bar in Abbotsford tomorrow night. The following infos is sourced from Jews Against Fascism and Antifascist Alerts on Telegram. It’s unclear at this stage if the venue bookers/managers/owners know or care about the gig, but in my experience venues that indulge creeps tend not to benefit from doing so.

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V. G. Venturini

Posted on June 26, 2025 by @ndy

I’ve recently begun reading Never Give In: Three Italian antifascist exiles in Australia, 1924-1956 by V. G. Venturini (Search Foundation, 2007); the three being Francesco Fantin, Omero Schiassi and Massimo Montagnana. Anyway, I thought this passage about STRAYA was amusing, so I thought I’d chuck it up:

Ignorant impatience persists, even though it has now been papered over with a ‘multicultural veneer’, while one strives to detect a glacially slow withering away of the sentimental and ‘cultural’ attachment to another country: Britain, whose knowledge and understanding of Italy and its complexity is no less faulty than Australia’s. Much multicultural rhetoric notwithstanding, Australians and above all their institutions remain overwhelmingly English, albeit modified by ‘life in the tropics’. What remains — the writer David Malouf recently reminded us — are an addiction to the pomp-and-forms of the parliamentary process, a heritage of philistinism, a dislike of some things regarded ‘too showy’, theatrical, arty or ‘too serious’, a fear of appearing ’emotional’, a distrust of theory, a preference for ‘pragmatism’ more as an end in itself than as a means to a programme, a feeling of happiness in remaining in doubt as to why something works so long as it does work, a search for ‘the mainstream’, that is the mediocrity which is mistaken for ‘British’ good common-sense, a sense of humour turned black by the subconscious recall of the violence needed to establish and sustain existence in the ‘new country’. But there are some added ‘qualities’, apparently locally grown: a passion for gambling — on the horses or the lottery, or over and about anything standing or moving, the tribal ritual of football, a pride in drunkenness, the flickering shadows of cops and robbers, guys and dolls, emanating from the ‘additional parent’ — the box in the lounge-room — an impatience with details, which puts a prize on approximation, a desperate craving for ‘respectability’ which leads to conformism, and all of that supported by a lazy authoritarianism and a diffident attitude to knowledge and things of the spirit because, where everyone is ‘tolerably’ ignorant, and things are ‘harmlessly’ uncertain, what passes for tolerance — but is in fact indifference — spreads around a sense of comfort.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran #253 w Laura Jedeed on ICE, Big Beautiful Tanks & more : June 26, 2025

Posted on June 24, 2025 by @ndy

First, thank you to everybody who’s donated to YNP! and 3CR during this year’s radiothon: you rock! Please note that you can still donate and help 3CR each its fundraising goal of $275,000.

Secondly, last week’s episode (June 19) was a repeat of our August 2023 interview with Bradley Onishi; the week prior (June 12) was our radiothon episode; on June 5 we played a repeat of our April 2024 interview with Alex Hanna and before that, on May 29, we broadcast the interview Jeff Sparrow conducted with Richard Seymour about Richard’s new book, Disaster Nationalism.

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Laura Jedeed [Bluesky]. Laura is a freelance journalist, publishes BANNED IN YOUR STATE, ‘a weekly(ish) newsletter documenting the American apocalypse’, and was a previous guest of ours all the way back in November 2020. On this episode, we spoke to Laura about the ICE raids and police riots in LA, Cheet0 Mussolini’s birthday military parade in Washington, Republican subversion/destruction of the higher education in the US, and more.

4.30pm, June 26, 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, Nah Yeah, It’s The 2025 3CR Radiothon!

Posted on June 11, 2025 by @ndy

Welcome to the RADIOTHON edition of Yeah Nah Pasaran!

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

This June 3CR really needs your support. Your donation ensures that the station remains free of government and corporate influence, and a true voice for the community.

The 2025 Radiothon theme is ‘Your Station, Your Voice’ and 3CR needs to raise $275,000. 3CR has been with us since 1976, keeping us company with exceptional programs and music 24 hours a day. If you’ve ever enjoyed just a single program, then that’s a great reason to support us with a tax-deductible donation and make sure 3CR is here for you tomorrow.

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

Posted on June 6, 2025 by @ndy

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)

Posted on May 23, 2025 by @ndy

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

Posted on May 20, 2025 by @ndy

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

Posted on May 13, 2025 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Paris Marx [Bluesky]. Paris is a podcaster — Tech Won’t Save Us /// System Crash — writer, 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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