Having lost its one remaining Parliamentarian in the Queensland State election last year, the One Nation Party (ONP) nevertheless continues to dribble along. While standing no candidates in the Tasmanian State election, in the South Australian State election last weekend, ONP received 3773 votes (0.5%) in the Legislative Council (Upper House); in 2006, it got 7559 votes (0.8%); and in 2002, 16,829 votes (1.81%). The Party stood no candidates in the Legislative Assembly (Lower House), but stood six in the 2006 election, their most popular candidate (David Kleining in Hammond) receiving 4.1% of the vote. By way of contrast, the Party stood no less than 47 candidates in the 2002 State election (including the APP’s Andrew Phillips in Colton, who received 220 votes or 1.1%), for little return. Further afield, One Nation in Western Australia was deregistered in July 2009; it currently promotes the work of David Duke on The Jew. In Queensland in January 2010 the Party failed to overturn an earlier decision to deregister it, meaning that at present only the Federal party is registered with the state.
…Mr Abbott’s pitch, beyond his base, is to a cohort of voters whom Labor secured in 2007, many of them the so-called “Howard battlers”, who in turn emerged from the Hansonites of the late 1990s. This group of Australians can relate well to a straight-talking Opposition Leader prepared to shoot from the hip and take the consequences if things go wrong. Mr Abbott has a keen sense of the anti-big government, anti-elite thinking that runs through Australian society. It was John Howard who at the 1996 election argued that he would govern “for all of us”, subtly exploiting the suspicion of Paul Keating’s interest in Indonesia, Aborigines and French clocks.
Mr Abbott is already dogwhistling on political correctness. His weekend claim that “welcome to country” ceremonies were often just “tokenism” was less about the ritual and more about reminding Australians that his interest in indigenous affairs does not make him a soft touch on black Australia or white guilt.
It is an appeal, however subliminal, to the million or so Australians who voted for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party at the 1998 federal election, many of whom were won back by Mr Howard at the next two polls. By 2007, Mr Rudd’s appeal to “working families”, bolstered by a $30 million ACTU campaign against Work Choices, convinced many of those “Howard battlers” that Labor offered more security for their jobs or the jobs of their children or grandchildren.
Faced with a social conservative in Mr Abbott, the Prime Minister must resist the temptation to move further to the Left and get back in touch with who he really is – a right-wing politician who hooked up with the Labor Left in Victoria in order to gain the leadership. He needs to build bridges back to the the Australian Workers Union in Queensland and sections of the Right that backed Kim Beazley. In short, Mr Rudd should remember Australians elected him in 2007 to be a right-wing Labor Prime Minister. This is the only hope he has of surviving the challenge to his leadership that could come his way after the election, unless he wins in a landslide.
His dalliances with intervention and protectionism must be put aside as the damaging compromises they are. Mr Rudd must know that flirting with the Left is one thing, but his salvation does not lie there. The Left will gravitate instead to his powerful rival, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard, already openly touted as the next leader…
The urban guerillas of The Crazy World of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire have brought fire! fire! to the offices of Greek fascist / para-state group Golden Dawn. In their communique claiming responsibility for the action and explaining their rationale, the group writes “Fire, to destroy all you’ve done. Fire, to end all you’ve become. We’ll feel you burn!” Note that, while there appears to have been some line-up changes in the last few months, the band’s tour of Athens is expected to continue to bring their particular brand of musical destruction to venues big and small across the city for some time to come.
Gabriel Kuhn has interviewed André Moncourt and J. Smith, the editors of Projectiles for the People, about their book, the RAF, and armed struggle. The complete interview is reposted here; a slightly abbreviated German version of this interview will appear in the German journal Arranca!, No. 41, December 2009. A Swedish version is up on the activist website Motkraft.
See also : Walking with the Comrades, Arundhati Roy, DAWN, March 21, 2010: “Last month, quietly, unannounced, Arundhati Roy decided to visit the forbidding and forbidden precincts of Central India’s Dandakaranya Forests, home to a melange of tribespeople many of whom have taken up arms to protect their people against state-backed marauders and exploiters. She recorded in considerable detail the first face-to-face journalistic “encounter” with armed guerillas, their families and comrades, for which she combed the forests for weeks at personal risk. This essay was published on Friday in Delhi’s Outlook magazine. Arundhati Roy made the pictures in this 20,000 word essay available exclusively to Dawn.”
Most people interested in politics would recognise one of the pictures revolving on the front page of this website as Paddy Ashdown, the former leader of the Liberal Democrats. Most Sun readers would recognise him as Paddy Pantsdown, the politician who was shagging his Secretary.
Anyone interested in parapolitics would be aware of the long running accusations that the former leader of the UK’s third political party was a former MI6 officer – accusations finally confirmed by Ashdown in his 2009 memoirs “A Fortunate Life“…
Finally, The Discreet Charm of the Petit-Bourgeoisie:
Petit-Bourgeoisie, lit., “little city-folk” – the small business people, sometimes extended to include the professional middle-class and better-off farmers.
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It is striking that the course on which Hugo Chávez has embarked since 2006 is the exact opposite of the one chosen by the postmodern Left: far from resisting state power, he grabbed it (first by an attempted coup, then democratically), ruthlessly using the Venezuelan state apparatuses to promote his goals. Furthermore, he is militarising the barrios, and organising the training of armed units there. And, the ultimate scare: now that he is feeling the economic effects of capital’s ‘resistance’ to his rule (temporary shortages of some goods in the state-subsidised supermarkets), he has announced plans to consolidate the 24 parties that support him into a single party. Even some of his allies are sceptical about this move: will it come at the expense of the popular movements that have given the Venezuelan revolution its élan? However, this choice, though risky, should be fully endorsed: the task is to make the new party function not as a typical state socialist (or Peronist) party, but as a vehicle for the mobilisation of new forms of politics (like the grass roots slum committees). What should we say to someone like Chávez? ‘No, do not grab state power, just withdraw, leave the state and the current situation in place’? Chávez is often dismissed as a clown – but wouldn’t such a withdrawal just reduce him to a version of Subcomandante Marcos, whom many Mexican leftists now refer to as ‘Subcomediante Marcos’? Today, it is the great capitalists – Bill Gates, corporate polluters, fox hunters – who ‘resist’ the state.
Criticism of Chavez by Iranian labour activists and Marxists is nothing new. Over six years ago, in November 2004, Iranian Workers’ Solidarity Network (IWSN) wrote a polite open letter to President Chavez highlighting Iranian workers’ lack of basic trade union and other rights. This was followed by an open letter by the IRSL in July 2006 contrasting the main policies of the Bolivarian government and the IRI and explaining the regime’s role in the crushing of the 1978-79 revolution. There have been numerous open letters and statements (usually on the occasion of state visits) on Chavez’s close relationship with the Iranian regime since then, including an IMT statement which we drafted but the IS, in its infinite wisdom, watered down before publication.
It is important to point out that this is not merely a hobby-horse of the Iranian left but that Iranian workers are also disgusted by Chavez’s very cosy relationship with the leaders of the Iranian bourgeois state. In July 2006 Chavez visited Iran Khodro, the biggest car and vehicle manufacturing plant in the Middle East. The workers had heard many positive things about Chavez and were excited to meet him in person. To begin with the workers were pleasantly surprised at the President of a country shaking hands with workers and even kissing them on the cheek. They were about [to] read out a statement in his honour, welcoming this revolutionary leader to their factory. But before they could read it Chavez began praising Ahmadinejad, calling him his brother, calling the Iranian regime a revolutionary government and so on. The workers were totally disgusted by him. They tore up the statement and left the hall.
The refusal of Alan Woods’s Clique to condemn Hugo Chavez for his whole-hearted support of the IRI in its suppression of the post-‘election’ street protests, therefore, brought matters to a head. As the regime used increasingly brutal methods to smash the street protests, Mr Chavez became more determined in his support of the repression of what he thought were CIA-sponsored protests.
Alan Woods’s Clique also tried to pretend that our highly critical position did not exist. In particular, the so-called International Secretariat (IS) refused to publish Maziar Razi’s Open letter to the workers of Venezuela on Hugo Chavez’s support for Ahmadinejad and all subsequent material that disagreed with the totally wrong, indefensible and opportunist ‘analysis’ of the official IMT position. This made the IRMT’s work inside Iran almost impossible. This official position was decided by the IS, the hard core of Alan Woods’s bureaucratic clique, without consultation with anyone – including neither the IRMT, the Iranian section as recognised by the 2008 World Congress, nor the IEC! Even video footage of demonstrators denouncing Chavez in the ‘revolution’ that the Clique had predicted did not bring about a change in policy!
White Pride World Wide Day is upon us, and I was very much looking forward to reporting that Paul Innes had received visitors from another White galaxy far far away, armed only with promises of technical support for his Pioneer Little Europe in Perth; that White European Bloodlines had flowed like a raging torrent through Calgary; and that in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Kyle Chapman had finally succeeded in recruiting a sufficient number of fellow Mormons to storm the Christchurch City Council chambers and declare a White, National, Socialist, Republic.
Sadly, no UFOs have been spotted hovering above the foothills of Perth, the WEB has cancelled its march through Calgary, and if nutzis in New Zealand have conquered the Council, it’s being kept a closely-guarded secret. Oh, and melanin-deficient moarons belonging to the tiny groupuscule ‘National Socialist Front’ cancelled their attempt to huddle together on the streets of Chicago.
14! 88! 36! 26! 36! Hutt hutt hutt!
In further bad news for nutzis…
A SWASTIKA flag on a Daisy Hill man’s property has been taken down. The owner of the flag cited personal reasons for the decision saying his children were being threatened at school. He said he did not plan to put the flag back up. Logan City Councillor Darren Power (Division 10) welcomed the man’s decision. “I’m happy for the local residents who were uneasy about the flag being in their street,’’ he said. “I think common sense has prevailed in the end.’’
Tom Metzger has announced he’s throwing his cowboy hat into the ring for a job as a Congressman in Illinois. In a slackbastard EXCLUSIVE, I can reveal Metzger’s campaign theme song:
Thousands of anti-war protesters took to the streets of the US capital on Saturday, on the seventh anniversary of the US-led war in Iraq in a show of frustration widely ignored by the media and public.
As the National Marathon wound down in the city, protesters gathered outside the White House after midday, bearing signs alluding to the high cost of the war both in money and human lives and decrying the use of unmanned aircraft, or drones, to bomb US enemies.
My problem is that I can recall George II celebrating May Day in 2003 by declaring “In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed”. In other words, Liberty Defended / Peace Established / Iraq Freed / War Over / Mission Accomplished.
My second problem is finding out what happened in Bolton on Caturday. According to the BBC, “More than 1,500 UAF and 2,000 EDL supporters were in Victoria Square and a number of people were injured”. Dozens were arrested, including members of the SWP/UAF leadership. According to one sauce: “Anti-fascist protesters emerged victorious on Saturday after holding Bolton’s central Victoria Square against the racists from the English Defence League. But mainstream national media reports are presenting it as a contest between two violent groups – and blaming the anti-fascists for the violence…”
So.
What was the final score?
Thank you for serving our country and our cause. May God bless you all, and may God continue to bless America.
Great news! The Parliament of Tasmania has been hung!
Oh wait…
*cough*
That is, “Tasmania is headed for a hung Parliament, with the latest seat predictions saying 10 Labor, 10 Liberal and five to the Greens.”
Further, “The Premier, David Bartlett, has not yet conceded defeat but says the 12 per cent swing against Labor is a clear rebuke. It was his first election as leader and he says Labor’s performance still comes down to him. “[I take] responsibility for this result,” he said. “The electorate has sent Labor a message.”
Yeah: f*ck off.
Finally, “The Greens recorded a record 21 per cent of the vote and will hold the balance of power. Leader Nick McKim is celebrating the party’s strongest ever vote. “This is a historic result for the Greens,” he said. “A great weight has lifted off Tasmanians’ shoulders.”
Well, not quite, but it looks like interesting times for The Gunnerment.
More importantly, with the benefit of the donkey vote, Communist Bob Briton has secured 517 votes (3.1%) in the race for a seat in Lee, and by doing so come fifth in a field of seven, narrowly losing the popularity contest to Family First but beating two (other) Independents.
The Communist Party of Australia (SA) tweets:
3.1 percent vote for Communist Party in seat of Lee a top result. Thanks to all who voted for Bob and offered support and encouragement!
The ALP are preferencing us last. Their opportunism & capitalist ideology is in serious conflict with working class values. They’re a joke!
But still quite a popular one, it seems.
Note that “In his four years in Parliament, [former member for Lee Joe] Rossi attracted more headlines than is normal for a little known backbencher, producing ideas for innovative schemes such as sterilising unmarried mothers after their third child, or introducing a modern version of poor houses for welfare recipients.”
Awesome!
Sadly, Rossi’s innovative thinking has, like Communism, again been repudiated by the voters of Lee.
So much for the Communist Alliance. As for the Socialist Alliance, it stood two candidates in the Tasmanian State election, and there’s good news and there’s bad news. In Denison, Melanie Barnes got 410 votes or 0.7%, an improvement of 0.3% on the Alliance’s last tilt; in Franklin, however, Jennie Forward received just 250 votes, or 0.4% of the total. In other words, Barnes and Forward have at this stage proven to be the least popular of the 17 candidates in each of their respective contests.
For those of you coming in late, the Australia First Party (AF) and Australian Protectionist Party (APP) are currently fighting a ding-dong battle for the hearts and minds of White nationalists in Australia. Both parties — neither of which, it should be noted, are as yet registered with the AEC — oppose non-White immigration and ‘multiculturalism’ and, as part of a broader-ranging nationalism, wish to see a return to a White Australia policy on the part of government. Sadly, they part ways over the question of who and/or what constitutes the greatest threat to White Australia. For AF, it is New World Order liberal-globalist-capitalism and the ‘traitor class’ — heavily-indebted to the Zionist lobby nudge nudge wink wink — which is responsible for our current malaise. APP, on the other hand, like the BNP, claims not to be anti-Semitic, and views Islamisation (and Asianisation) as being matters of the most pressing concern.
Beyond any political differences, acrimony between the parties is also fuelled by the fact that the APP emerged as a reaction to the perceived failings of AF’s current leadership, and the poor character of Dr James Saleam (dubbed ‘The Mad Arab’ by right-wing critics on account of his Lebanese ancestry and personal style). For its part, AF accuses APP of going soft on The Jewish Question, and of being far too close to the far right within the Liberal Party (Darrin Hodges, chief spokesperson for APP in NSW, is a former member) in both its organisation and its political perspectives. Further, while AF looks to Germany and the NPD for its inspiration, APP models itself upon the more ‘moderate’ British National Party (which AF has denounced in favour of the National Front).
Given the collapse of such groups as Australians Against Further Immigration (AAFI), and the continuing disintegration of the One Nation Party (ONP) in its various forms, it’s possible that, in the longer term (and barring the emergence of another right-wing demagogue such as Pauline Hanson), either or both AF and APP will become the leading racist, right-wing fringe party. Given that’s the case, how are they faring? Some recent developments are outlined below.
APP member Nicholas (Hunter) Folkes *s in a report by Kate Carr in a Sydney local newspaper concerning his supposed candidacy for the seat of Sydney at the next Federal election.
Folkes is a rather funny fellow. In previous remarks on my blog, he’s accused me of being a “racist wanker”, a “Marxist Nazi turd” and an “anti-Semite”, described Greens leader Bob Brown as an “anarchist homo” and a “poof” who will be killed by Muslims if they’re given the opportunity (a point also made by APP NSW chairperson Darrin Hodges during the course of his brief appearance on an episode of Q&A), and who believes that “Nazis, Pinkos and Greens” are “all part of the same divisive mob”.
Elsewhere, Nicholas treats readers to the following words of wisdom (January 10, 2009):
You are mentally challenged… just read your crap comment regarding muslim school at camden. That psycho nutter is you and all your muslim rapist friends. Australia was wealthier and better off when it was ‘whiter’. Now that all the foreign trash has arrived, isn’t it amazing that our standard of living has dropped?
In August 2009 Folkes, a rabid supporter of the British National Party (BNP), denounced Filipinos on the BNP Facebook page in the following terms:
Filipinos are gold diggers, they’d marry your grandfather and clear out all the silver and kick dysfunctional idiots like you onto the street. Britain does not need foreign labour in good times or bad. Cheap foreign labour reduces wages, increases house and rental costs, increase [sic] welfare costs, increases crime and anti-social behaviour. Remember toad, Britian [sic] is first world and the Phillipines [sic] is third world, do you get my drift. Import these blowflies and you will go down to their level.
August 26, 2009 at 5:36am
Paula, the Filipinos will build shanty towns like Smokey Mountain in Britain. We have plenty of these free loaders in Australia, do not let them into Britain. Their qualifications are not the same standard as Britians [sic]. The more foreign rubbish you let in the weaker the British economy will be. Vote BNP for a return to common sense and British first policies.
August 26, 2009 at 5:42am
Paul – you are a dickhead. Filipino women like you because you are a ticket out of their third world hellhole. About being good in bed, they told me that you are shit in bed[.]
August 27, 2009 at 5:03am
Typically, Folkes denies the allegation of racism; that honour, apparently, belongs to myself. Similarly, Folkes attacks Islam for its homophobia, but is himself hardly enamoured of “anarchist homos” or “poofs” such as Bob Brown. In other words, Folkes is a garden variety bigot who lacks the intelligence to properly disguise his bigotry by way of coding his language.
Inner west residents infuriated by the Australian Protectionist Party
Kate Carr Inner West Courier
March 17, 2010
http://inner-west-courier.whereilive.com.au/news/story/protecting-australia/
HE thinks Pauline Hanson was misunderstood and that Australia should accept migrants primarily from Europe and Britain, but ask the Australian Protectionist Party’s (APP) Nick Folkes if he is racist and you will get a resounding “no”.
The APP has been infuriating residents in the Inner West by distributing leaflets which call for an end to “African crime”, and blame migrants for everything from unemployment and the housing crisis to climate change.
According to Mr Folkes the party was just talking about “the facts and the reality of what is going on”.
“We call for an end to high numbers of migrants,” Mr Folkes said.
A Rozelle resident for 17 years, Mr Folkes denied his party was on the fringe of politics. “We are here [to] dispel the myth that nationalists are Nazis,” he said. “We are rightwing but not extreme.”
Mr Folkes said he was aware his party would struggle in the left-leaning Inner West but he was still going to run in the seat of Sydney in the next federal election.
“As we get more multicultural and diverse we are just having more problems,” Mr Folkes said.
The APP is particularly focused on Islam and has three flyers on its website addressing the issue of extremism.
Mr Folkes said he was concerned at the treatment of women and gay people by Islam, however his own party opposed adoption rights for same-sex parents and government funding of “homosexual groups”.
The party’s leaflets have prompted several residents to contact the Courier…
Complaints regarding allegedly racist leaflets have also occurred in the nearby suburb of Chippendale, on that occasion being produced and distributed by fascist groupuscule Nationalist Alternative (NA). NA most recently came to attention by way of staging an abortive Nuremberg Rally in Perth earlier this month, attempting to promote er, water conservation and opposition to immigration at a rally against the Federal Government’s plans to introduce a web filter.
Chippendale is, of course, one of the suburbs in Tanya Pilbersek’s electorate — the (very) safe seat of Sydney; it is also the location of Humanist House. Humanist House is a property owned by the Humanist Society of NSW, at which local racists have been meeting for the last eight years. The Humanist Society itself contains dozens of racists and fascists in its ranks and, according to another local newspaper report, last month even had one of these fascists, Mark Pavic, elected its Vice-President (see : John August ~versus~ slackbastard, March 19, 2010).
Australia First : Keep On Truckin’
Australia First declared this week (Eureka!, No.219, March 17, 2010) that it will be standing two candidates in western Sydney at the next Federal election: Tony Pettitt, a 55-year-old truckie, in the seat of Greenway and Mick Saunders, a 52-year-old truckie, in the seat of Lindsay. (See also : The Idealistic Faces Of “Australianism”, November 28, 2009). Party Führer Dr James Saleam says: “The party is running on a programme which will focus on the refugee invasion, contract labour and the globalist attack upon Australian small business and workers. We are concerned with the need for direct democracy to deliver Australians from the party dictatorship.”
The latest date given for the registration of the party is now May 1, almost one year since it announced (July 2009) it had obtained the requisite numbers to do so.
AF has also declared that it will be throwing its puny weight behind cockie Peter Spencer who, before coming to fame for sitting up a pole and not eating, was renowned for his love of chopping down trees. Thus:
Australia First (Toowoomba) is sponsoring and co-organising a meeting with Peter Spencer, hero of the pole protest hunger strike. The meeting is [Saturday, March 27]. Peter will be warning Queenslanders of the property grab policies that governments can enforce against landowners. It is expected that hundreds of Darling Downs residents will attend. More details are on the Queensland website.
Nicole Hanley, a neo-Nazi and co-organiser of AF’s annual Sydney Forum, attended a protest rally held in support of Spencer in Canberra on February 2, providing a breathless account of the event for the benefit of readers of Stormfront, the world’s leading source of news and views on all thing White, and host to members of both AF and APP.
Finally, AF is also currently raffling a copy of Imperium by good fascist Francis Parker Yockey. If you really want to secure a copy of Yockey’s magnum opus, however, local neo-Nazi distro 9 percent productions has Imperium for sale for the measly sum of $35.
NB. I began writing this in mid-January, put it aside, and am only now returning to it. In the interim, the NSW Humanist Society/Humanist Society of NSW held a meeting on February 14, 2010, to elect a new Committee of Management, but I’m unaware of the results of this meeting (see below), and who now constitutes the Committee. The latest edition of the Society newsletter, however, states that the person previously responsible for letting the Hall (David Duffy) has been replaced, and those wishing to hire it will be more stringently vetted in future.
Introduction
As noted, John August, the President of the NSW Humanist Society/Humanist Society of NSW, has recently released a statement regarding the Society, Humanist House, and the ‘Public Information Forum’ (PIF), a fascist grouping whose meetings at the House in October and November 2009 were accompanied by protest. After detailing some recent history involving the Society’s relationship to and with the PIF (aka ‘Klub Nation’/’Klub Naziya’/’Mark Pavic Group’), as well as an attempt to introduce a statement in opposition to racism and xenophobia into the group’s Constitution, August notes that the Society’s last AGM:
…resulted in a committee which included many PIF members who had not previously attended social gatherings or committee meetings, contributed to the Humanist Viewpoints or otherwise taken an interest in the NSW Humanists. The election was itself problematic, with no scrutiny of candidates before the election, and confusion about preferential voting.
The Society zine (Humanist Viewpoints, Vol.48, No.4, October/November/December 2009) states that the:
2009 AGM was well attended and the new committee consists of John August (President), David Duffy and Waratah Rosemarie Gillespie (Vice Presidents), Victor Bien (Treasurer), Affie Adagio (Hon Sec/Editor) and Angela Drury (Assist. Sec). Ordinary committee members: Dylon Anderson, Ken Cratchley, Tony D’Angiolillo, Hugh Drewitz, Gillian Ellis, Fred Flatow, Robin Hall, Mark Pavic, Andrew Wilson, and John Wright.
The same number also welcomes the (‘White nationalist’) Australian Protectionist Party’s NSW spokesperson Darrin Hodges into the Humanist fold.
Protest
In relation to public protest at Humanist House, August has little new to add. There were two such protests — in October and November — timed to coincide with the meeting of the neo-Nazis. August reiterates the fact that he considered the protests violent (a Society member who witnessed one of the protests asserts that the protesters struck the building, and “a glass panel inside Humanist House was damaged around this time”) and therefore unwelcome, and that he remains at a loss as to the identities of those participating. August also complains that participants failed to contact the Society prior to the protests in order to communicate their concerns, and have not done so since. For their part, the neo-Nazis apparently accused August and the committee of collaborating with the protesters and, inter alia, “claimed that the police would be investigating the damage which resulted to Humanist House”. In summary: “The protester’s careless and ill-thought out actions exacerbated an already difficult and stressful situation. Great work, guys.”
Police
Again, not a great deal of new information. August spoke to Redfern police about the protests, who expressed knowledge of the involvement of participants in other political activity (“The protesters knew that the group went by the name “Klub Nation”… and it seems had been protesting elsewhere”).
Politics
In news just to hand:
I was intrigued to note that the Humanist Society of NSW was not an exhibitor at the Global Atheist Convention, an event at which one of its Patrons, Robyn Williams, was a guest speaker.
Pam Walker has authored an article — Anti-fascist protests at Humanist House, City Hub, March 17, 2010 — which states that Mark Pavic was elected Vice President of the Society at its February 14 meeting. If correct, then the fascists have not only not been removed from the Society but, seemingly, further cemented their place within it. Which is, of course, unfortunate: moaron that subject — and August’s understanding of the political issues raised by neo-Nazi infiltration of a Humanist association — later.
In the meantime, however, readers should note other events from Australian history — from 100 or more years ago. Humanists in particular should discuss the relevance of this history with other groups in civil society.
NB. The Melbourne Anarchist Club was formed on May 1, 1886 by members of the Australasian Secular Association. Anarchists played a key role in challenging Christian domination of the colonies, and in particular bourgeois opposition to participation by the working class in public life. In 1889, and the years following, anarchist and socialist agitators such as Chummy Fleming, Sam Rosa and John White participated in regular public protests demanding the opening of libraries and other civic institutions on Sundays.
Bonus History!
[Source : Radical Melbourne, Jill and Jeff Sparrow, Vulgar Press, 2001, pp.161–164.]
In 1883, The Argus published an article condemning the presence of the poor in the Public Library on Swanston Street:
A visitor to the library may test the matter first by his nose. He can smell vagrancy the moment he crosses the threshold. Using his eyes, he can see it right up and down the long hall; peering curiously about, he can find it in any of the alcoves, nicely sheltered and walled about with books. If he chooses to particularise, he may see an unmistakable specimen enter, shuffle up to a bookcase, select a volume of light literature, choose a seat, set up his elbows as supports to his head, and bend his eyes on the print. In a little while he spits. In an hour he will sleep; if he snores an attendant may disturb him; then he will read and spit again.
The Argus proposed two solutions – regulations forcing potential entrants to show a letter of introduction from a ‘respectable’ household or, failing that, the division of the building into distinct areas for different classes. By name, the library might have been ‘Public’ (or ‘Free’), but there was more than a suggestion from Melbourne’s elite that the building and its collection remained rather too good for the populace, since ‘the books . . . are handled, and soiled, and spoiled, and frequently mutilated, by creatures who would be better bestowed within Her Majesty’s gaols’.
SEOUL: North Korea executed a former senior official last week as punishment for the country’s botched currency reform, according to a news report yesterday. In November, North Korea revalued its currency as part of efforts to cut inflation and reassert control over its nascent market economy. However, the measure reportedly worsened the food situation by forcing the closure of markets, causing anger among North Koreans left with piles of worthless bills…
The original source for the story according to Bloomberg is South Korean news agency Yon Hap News.
If correct, then the puppet military warmongers should clearly understand that the military retaliatory step will be implemented by the limitless merciless strike power of the strong revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu and a resolute action which can hardly be countered by any up-to-date means in the world.
If false, then those responsible had better make an apology before the nation for their crimes against the nation, people and reunification and immediately step down without delay instead of working hard to prolong its despicable remaining days through such mean and nefarious anti-DPRK ruckus.
In more important news:
New Scientific Films Produced
Pyongyang, March 17 (KCNA) — The Korean Documentary and Science Film Studio has recently produced new scientific films giving scientific and technical information and common knowledge about the greening of cities.
“Soilless Cultivation of Turf in Humus-cakes” offers an explicit explanation of the new turf cultivation method and its advantages.
By this method, it is possible to cultivate turf two or three times a year and raise the productivity three or four times higher than the existing methods.
“Let’s Plant Many Large Tara Vines” gives a scientific and technical solution to problems arising in extensively propagating large tara vine or Actinidia chinensis useful in different aspects.
The films are helpful toward garbing streets and villages in green in spring.
The hearts of all the adherents to the Juche idea, the Songun idea, and the progressive mankind valuing independence and justice to fully support the DPRK, the homeland of Juche and the fortress of socialism, and the Korean people’s cause of justice at present time when the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean warmongers are working hard to stage war exercises for aggression on the DPRK, were greatly warmed by news that:
A small group of members from the British Branch of the Korean Friendship Association picketed the South Korean Embassy followed by the United States Embassy today in London. The group are against the military exercises staged by the US in South Korea as well as the South Korean ‘Unification Ministry’ and the National Intelligence Service. London, United Kingdom, 15/03/2010…
The Slackbastard Central Committee voices firm solidarity with the Korean people in their struggle to defend the sovereignty of the country and demands the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet clique cancel their nefarious plans and the U.S. pull back its forces from south Korea at once. We call upon all the branches of the KFA to intensify the movement for solidarity with the DPRK.
Two Greek anarchists are making molotov cocktails. One says to the other: "So who will we throw these at then?" The other replies: "What are you, some kind of fucking intellectual?"
