I and the Rural People’s Party (America’s Premier Songun Political Organization — All Australians are Called upon to Hold Aloft Banner of Songun!) express shock at reports in bourgeois pig-town U.$.A. that Dear Leader and Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army Kim Jong-Il is suffering from pancreatic cancer.
The source of this information is the South Korean puppet communications networks.
A little over four months ago, Dear Leader won a landslide electoral victory in military constituency 333. This so-called ‘news’ also comes just days after the world commemorated the demise of President Kim Il Sung, and several months after the Dear Leader exploded an underground bomb. On behalf of the Central Committee of the Slackbastard Party and echoing the sentiments of all party cadre, I would like to heartily congratulate the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) — which is sometimes referred to in the West as North Korea — on the successful underground nuclear test held on May 25th, 2009.
For more information on this Glorious Achievement, please refer to RPP Tribute to Successful DPRK Nuclear Test. Also remember the invincible and iron-willed commander as he founded the immortal Juche idea most brilliant in the history of human thinking Kim Il Sung.
Pyongyang, July 12 (KCNA) — Khaleq Bhuiyan, chairman of the Central Committee of the Socialist Party of Bangladesh, made public a statement on July 7 on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of demise of President Kim Il Sung.
The statement said that the President was the invincible and iron-willed commander as he founded the immortal Juche idea most brilliant in the history of human thinking after embarking upon the road of revolution in his early years and led to victory the Fatherland Liberation War against the U.S. imperialists.
He was the father of the nation-building and benevolent leader of the people as he built the socialist system centered on the popular masses and a peerlessly great man as he devoted his whole life to the struggle for achieving the independent and peaceful reunification of the country, strengthening and developing the socialist movement and victoriously advancing the human cause of independence, the statement noted.
The statement stressed that General Secretary Kim Jong Il set a shining example in accomplishing the cause of perpetuating the memory of the President and has carried forward generation after generation the revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered by the President with his outstanding Songun political mode.
The statement expressed belief that the Korean people would courageously frustrate all the moves of the hostile forces including the United States against the DPRK and achieve greater victory in the honorable struggle to achieve national reunification and build a great prosperous powerful nation, the behests of the President.
Dear Leader Comrade Generalissimo Kim Jong Il is the great brilliant commander of Songun, the invincible strategist twenty-eight thousand times victorious against the criminal US imperialist, the reactionary Japanese militarists, and the US-puppet south Korean dictatorship. Under the flawless Songun-based leadership of Dear Leader Comrade Generalissimo Kim Jong Il the brilliant statesman, political genius, prodigious humanist, and invincible military commander, the Korean people vow eternal undying loyalty of single-minded unity to the leader, pledging to hurl their lives at the outsider aggressors in defence of the leader who is more precious than their own lives.
Added Bonus!
The Jews pull the strings of the world with control of the financial, banking, political, and media all over the world to make the people’s lives miserable, stealing children’s eardrums and walls to make cakes and profit. This document shows how the Jews control traffic jams all over the world in a bid to make the people’s lives miserable so they can then lord it over and oppress the poor ethnic minority Arab Palestinian progressive people. World progressives demand that the wicked Zionists who are the worst human rights abusers in humankind history be tried and found guilty of crimes against humanity by the International Crimes Court at no delay.
A former NZ Nazi Party member, Bolton is a highly-entertaining fascist bozo, having been a member of numerous other political formations: the National Front (1978), Church of Odin (1980), New Force (1981), Nationalist Workers Party (1983), Fascist Union (1998), Workers’ Front (1999), and others. Most recently, Bolton helped form the New Zealand New Right (not to be confused with Welf Herfurth’s New Right Australia & New Zealand). In April 2008, Bolton signed — along with, ‘For Australia’, Brendan Gidley, Jim Saleam and Neil Baird, and, ‘For New Zealand’, Kyle Chapman and Anton Foljambe — ‘The ANZAC Declaration’.
He also has !cinataS powers.
Last year, Bolton cast a spell over Roel van Leeuwen and the Vice Chancellor of the University of Waikato, Roy Crawford. Having studied Kerry’s necromancy, van Leeuwen was able to manufacture powerful counter-magicks — thus avoiding having his hair fall out, while remaining able to find a car park at the local stupormarket. Crawford, on the other hand, had no such defences, and thus for many months was rendered both speechless and unable to read.
Above : New Zealand PM John Key offers VC Roy Crawford support during his battle with Beelzebub.
In September last year, the University of Waikato did a strange and dangerous thing.
What was strange is that it took the unprecedented step of removing graduate student Roel van Leeuwen’s published, marked Master of Arts in Philosophy thesis, which had earned first-class honours after internal and external examination. The thesis, entitled Dreamers of the Dark: Kerry Bolton and the Order of the Left Hand path, a Case-study of a Satanic-Neo-Nazi synthesis, was removed from Waikato University’s library and online publishing repository, without the University notifying van Leeuwen or his supervisors, Professor Dov Bing and Marg Coldham-Fussell.
What was dangerous is that it did so following a “complaint” (actually an implied legal threat) from a former National Front secretary and occultist, Kerry Bolton.
Nexus found out about this, and when we published, everyone else found out too. It was an academic scandal that was reported around the globe, because of its implications for the doctrine of academic freedom – a right enshrined in New Zealand law.
Since this happened, the University has been nearly silent for almost a year while the thesis was subject to internal review. The process has taken around ten months, but finally, last Friday, the University announced that the thesis has been returned to the library and website, having been found worthy of its mark, with Waikato University Vice-Chancellor Roy Crawford’s full blessing…
A thesis on neo-Nazism and Satanism in New Zealand will be going back on Waikato University library shelves after it was cleared by the university.
In September, the thesis by master’s student Roel van Leeuwen, was removed after Kerry Bolton, former secretary of the Right-wing National Front, complained that it was substandard, despite the piece winning first-class honours.
Entitled Dreamers of the Dark: Kerry Bolton and the Order of the Left Hand Path, a Case-study of a Satanic/Neo-Nazi Synthesis, it analysed ideas published by Mr Bolton and focused on how neo-Nazi thought was repackaged for a younger generation…
Police in Athens and Patras, working in close collaboration with Greek fascists, have spent the past 24 hours / week / month / year / decade or so kicking immigrant arse. The most recent actions were cleverly anticipated by a European party person: on June 29, in an address to a conference of the European People’s Party (PPE), “Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis termed illegal immigration … a pressing problem, with Greece being weighed down by it more than the rest European nations”. Helping to shift the burden on to someone-or-something else, today police used bulldozers to clear away some of the human trash polluting the pretty streets of Patras:
Police bulldoze migrant camp in Greek port
PATRAS, Greece (AFP) — Bulldozers escorted by riot police have levelled a camp at the Greek port of Patras where hundreds of migrants had lived in growing tension with city residents, an AFP photographer has said.
Around 100 police took part in the early morning operation in the camp occupied by mainly Afghan migrants that left standing only the migrants’ makeshift mosque and a tent used by volunteer doctors.
The camp was mostly empty as many migrants had apparently been forewarned, but police took away around 100 people including some 30 minors who were boarded on buses and taken to a local hotel according to officials.
A large number of clandestine immigrants mostly aged between 15 and 25 lived at the makeshift camp near the port for months at a time without proper water or hygiene facilities, hoping to sneak onto ferries bound for Italy.
Many were injured in the process or in alleged attacks by police, sparking protests from migrants and left-wing groups.
Clashes also broke out between rival groups of Afghan and Somali migrants, leading to growing tension with Patras residents who have long called on the local authorities and the government to act.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and several non-governmental organisations described the situation as an “emergency” and called on Greece to improve its procedures for claiming asylum and upgrade immigrant reception centres.
Greek police have also been hard @ work in the capital, attempting to cleanse some parts of the city of anarchists and also immigrants. Several days ago, a joint attack was launched on the 19-year-old anarchist squat Villa Amalias. The attack (which failed) was preceded by a joint meeting of (Deputy?) Public Order Minister Christos Markogiannakis and members of a local “residents’ committee” of the Ayios (Aghios) Panteleimonas neighbourhood. The committee is apparently a front group for neo-fascists belonging to the Chrysi Avyi (Χρυσή Αυγή) / Golden Dawn organisation.
For more infos, see : clandestinenglish (featuring parts of clandestina.org in english, as well as other content, related to migration and struggle) | After the Greek Riots (nee Occupied London) blog. (And a revolutionary wave of the balaclava in the direction of taxikipali.)
The conservative Greek government, stung by far-right gains in the European Parliament election, said on Thursday it would get tougher on illegal migration.
“The big issue that Greece and other EU countries face is the uncontrolled entry of illegal immigrants at Europe’s borders, mainly through people smugglers,” Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos said after a cabinet meeting on migration.
Greece will build more camps for number of illegal immigrants and will keep them there for up to 12 months, instead of three currently, deputy Public Order Minister Christos Markogiannakis said, detailing the new measures.
People smugglers will face felony instead of misdemeanour charges, which should discourage them, he added.
The ruling conservatives suffered a stinging defeat in the European elections, their first in nine years. The far-right LAOS party took 7 percent of the vote, its best result ever…
I last updated Trot Guide over a year ago, in May 2008. So, what’s happened between now and then? Not a lot, sadly. In summary, the following groupuscules are (relatively) active:
As previously noted, in May 2008 the ‘Democratic Socialist Perspective’ split/a minority faction (the ‘Leninist Party Faction’) was expelled. The Faction, together with an even smaller mob variously known as Direct Action / Marxist Solidarity Network / Workers’ & Community First soon formed a new party: the ‘Revolutionary Socialist Party’. “The RSP held a very successful first national congress in Sydney June 6-8” 2009, apparently. On a spotterly note, the RSP has attracted the support of the artisteVan Thanh Rudd (PM KRudd’s nephew).
The DSP, on the other hand, continues to motor along, as does its electoral front, the Socialist Alliance. SA has participated in several electoral contests since the split. In September 2008, Julie Gray threw her red hat into the ‘North Metropolitan Region’ ring in WA and gained 576 votes (from a total of 280,235). In NSW local council elections, SA candidates also raised the red flag in Newcastle (Third Ward), in Blacktown (Third Ward) and in Marrickville Council (North Ward); the masses did not flock to its banner. Several months later, SA stood candidates in the Victorian local council elections: none of its candidates won. Finally, in March 2009, SA candidates also struggled for state power in Queensland, standing two candidates: Sam Watson and Mike Crook. Sam got 344 votes (1.36%); Mike 361 (1.33%).
Communist Party of Australia
In an extremely positive development for spotters, in January 2009 communists formed an Alliance named, appropriately enough, the ‘Communist Alliance’. It received the approval of the AEC on March 16, 2009. The Alliance was initiated by the ‘Communist Party of Australia’ (CPA). NB. Following the death of Peter Symon in December 2008, the CPA is now under the leadership of Hannah Middleton.
Last Superpower
A small collection of ’60s radicals (Maoists), Last Superpower has gone all bloggy on Australia’s flabby capitalist arse, making for Strange Times.
Progressive Labour Party
In a blow to progressives, the AEC has refused the ‘Progressive Labour Party’ registration. Formed in November 1996, the party was recognised as a political party by the AEC during its previous registration between 1998 and 2006.
Spartacist League of Australia // Trotskyist Platform
… under the pressure of two decades of isolation and frustration, the SL itself has qualitatively degenerated into a grotesquely bureaucratic and overtly cultist group of political bandits which, despite a residual capacity for cynical “orthodox” literary posturing, has shown a consistent impulse to flinch under pressure. The “international Spartacist tendency” today is in no important sense politically superior to any of the dozen or more fake-Trotskyist “internationals” which lay claim to the mantle of the Fourth International.
‘Trotskyist Platform’ is busy kicking arse, taking names and waving red flags at its very own website, created in August 2008. Two editions of its publication — #9 (Feb-May 2008) and #10 (Sep-Oct 2008) — are available for your reading pleasure.
Miscellanea
Committee for a Revolutionary Communist Party in Australia / Communist Left Discussion Circle / Communist Party Advocate(s) / Direct Action / International Socialist Organisation / Leninist Party Faction / Marxist Solidarity Network / National Preparatory Committee of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Australia / New Era Communist Party of Australia / October Seventh Socialist Movement / Revo Australia / Socialist Action Group / Socialist Appeal / Socialist Democracy / Socialist Labor Party of Australia / Workers’ League / Workers’ Power : all still dead or MIA.
Australian Socialist is down, but presumably not dead. Labor Tribune is up, and still eking out an existence on the margins of the ALP.
Fightback! is ‘The Marxist Voice of Labour and Youth’. Sadly, its vocal chords have been under incredible strain since January 2008. On a more positive note, the Grantists are faring much better in New Zealand/Aotearoa. Also in those beleagured Islands, the ‘Residents Action Movement’ (RAM) continues to stumble along, undeterred by its embarrassing failure in 2008.
From the Department of Martin Fletcher ♥s The Jew:
Poor old Simon Sheppard and Stephen Whittle: the terrible twosome have just been sent down as a result of the batshit anti-Semitic writings on Sheppard’s website heretical.com. Sheppard’s previous claim to fame was having authored the Redwatch site, currently under the command of fascist muppets associated with the British People’s Party.
“On Friday, Sheppard was jailed for four years, 10 months and Whittle for two years, four months. In a landmark case, they have become the first Britons to be convicted of inciting racial hatred online, having printed leaflets and controlled websites featuring racist material” (The neo-Nazi ‘asylum seekers’, Jon Kelly, BBC, July 10, 2009).
While the über-sexy, Lacan-reading Vents battled on-stage @ The Corner (cheers Vents!), Collingwood battled against dogs @ Etihad, to emerge victorious a short time later…
THIS was an epic. This was a season-defining game. Win or lose, both teams came out of this match emboldened, but Collingwood came out the victor, albeit by the narrowest of margins.
The Magpies have declared themselves serious contenders, with their one-point win over the Western Bulldogs helping entrench them in the top four but more importantly defeating a top-eight side for the second successive week. They have won seven games in a row, a record under Mick Malthouse, and have defeated another top-four side with a finals-type effort…
Chomsky on Lacan:
Some of the people in these cults (which is what they look like to me) I’ve met: Foucault (we even have a several-hour discussion, which is in print, and spent quite a few hours in very pleasant conversation, on real issues, and using language that was perfectly comprehensible — he speaking French, me English); Lacan (who I met several times and considered an amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatan, though his earlier work, pre-cult, was sensible and I’ve discussed it in print); Kristeva (who I met only briefly during the period when she was a fervent Maoist); and others. Many of them I haven’t met, because I am very remote from from these circles, by choice, preferring quite different and far broader ones — the kinds where I give talks, have interviews, take part in activities, write dozens of long letters every week, etc. I’ve dipped into what they write out of curiosity, but not very far, for reasons already mentioned: what I find is extremely pretentious, but on examination, a lot of it is simply illiterate, based on extraordinary misreading of texts that I know well (sometimes, that I have written), argument that is appalling in its casual lack of elementary self-criticism, lots of statements that are trivial (though dressed up in complicated verbiage) or false; and a good deal of plain gibberish. When I proceed as I do in other areas where I do not understand, I run into the problems mentioned in connection with (1) and (2) above. So that’s who I’m referring to, and why I don’t proceed very far. I can list a lot more names if it’s not obvious.
Update : Eric the red back in action, Damien Murphy and Emily Dunn, The Sydney Morning Herald, July 13, 2009.
Update : KKK infiltration claims are sabotage: party, Matt Bachl, ninemsn, July 10, 2009. Also: Today JJJ interviewed someone claiming to be David Palmer, except that it was some young-sounding d00d hooting and talking about doing magic tricks, wearing capes and Harry Potter. ROFL.
Readers,
Following on from the glorious news in January (March) 2009, that the Communist Alliance had successfully broken through bourgeois norms, comes news of the Australia First Party’s own impending victory over the Australian Electoral Commission.
Australia First Party Claims Numbers To Register As Federal Party: Statement Of The Management Committee
The Australia First Party has reached the basic number to register as a Federal political party. The party will carry out the necessary preparations to file its application with the Australian Electoral Commission as soon as possible.
The registration of Australia First Party (NSW) Incorporated as a Federal party, to be known on ballot papers and publically as ‘Australia First Party’, will be a decisive act in uniting all Australian nationalist and patriotic groups and people, at first in common labour and then into a single movement. The long march that brought us to the point of this application began when we both secured the registration of a party to contest local government polls in New South Wales in early September 2007 and re-incorporated the party on September 17 2007.
The Australia First Party will now increase the tempo of its community activity.
THE party faithful gathered in “the bunker”. In a room decorated with Heidelberg School art posters and Ned Kelly figurines, Jim Saleam, the NSW director of the Australia First Party, recited the Eureka Oath.
The father of far right politics in Australia told the dozen people gathered around a plastic trestle table – a group too small to entertain registration as a federal political party – that they were on the cusp of return. “We are a genie in the bottle,” he said. “When the system itself says it’s in trouble we must welcome that.
“For, Australia, we are now moving into the most extraordinary of times.”
Five months since that meeting in a former shop in Tempe, the genie is out of the bottle: today Australia First will announce itself as the first anti-immigration party since One Nation to gain enough members to contest a federal election. [That is, with the exception of ‘Australians Against Further Immigration’, which contested the 1998, 2001 and 2004 federal elections under that name, and was only de-registered on December 7, 2005. The party was founded in 1989 and registered in 1990 by Rodney and Robyn Spencer, the parents of actor Jesse Spencer: Jesse immigrated to the US in 2004, and plays a doctor on House.] The party finished signing the 500 members on Monday and expects its application to be lodged in a fortnight – five years after it was last deregistered and four years since One Nation lost its final federal seat.
“The registration of Australia First Party … will be a decisive act in uniting all Australian nationalist and patriotic groups and people,” Mr Saleam wrote in a newsletter. “At first in common labour and then into a single movement.”
The party plans to contest lower house seats in western and southern Sydney, on the Darling Downs and possibly in the Hunter. It expects to attract between 6 and 7 per cent of the primary vote and will run a television campaign aimed at the trucking industry and an anti-immigration policy made more palatable by linking population to environmental issues.
The elevation of Australia First into a party capable of winning seats is in line with events overseas. Against the backdrop of the global economic crisis, far right organisations such as the British National Party made a strong showing at last month’s European elections.
In the past few months skinheads [sic] from the Southern Cross Hammerskins have started organising to induct members and set up a record label and an internet radio station. The Ku Klux Klan has established a presence in Victoria with links to the expanding klan in the US. The Australian Protectionist Party – which split from Australia First in 2007 – is preparing to lodge its own federal registration.
“Australians tend to be fairly non-political in their outlook,” said Darrin Hodges, the protectionist party’s NSW chairman and Mr Saleam’s key rival. “You have to work on educating people [that] there’s a problem there, and we’re making progress with that.”
Australia First began its return to federal politics on Australia Day, when Mr Saleam managed to associate himself with a mob of teenagers chanting nationalist slogans at Manly – a gathering which was played down by politicians and the police media unit, but which is being investigated as possibly the first act of co-ordinated racism since the Cronulla riots in 2005.
Working in the background, police were attempting to link the mob to an unnamed nationalist group uncovered in western Sydney a week earlier. The mob of 80 people who raced up and down the Corso on January 26, smashing cars and chanting, appeared to be organised rather than a drunken pack, though there is nothing to suggest that Mr Saleam himself was directly involved in any vandalism.
The group split in half at a decisive moment, weakening police efforts to contain them.
“Police have played this down significantly. It’s just going to be worse next year,” a senior police source said. “There is the push on for nationalism and if we don’t get a grip on this we will be looking at something we did not think could happen in Australia. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle.”
Two factors are working in favour of the ultra-right. Despite a 20 per cent cut to skilled migration numbers, Australia First and the Australian Protectionist Party expect the recession to create instability and resentment of non-white labour. At the same time, party members disenfranchised by the collapse of One Nation have begun to return to the movement.
“We’ll start seeing a lot of protest voting,” said Mr Saleam, who gained a doctorate in political science while serving a 3½-year-jail term for possessing a firearm and organising a shotgun attack on the home of the African National Congress’s Australian representative. “We will see not only defence of identity but defence of jobs. If that spills over into reasonable-level confrontation, I would support that.
“We want to turn ordinary people – suburban housewives, unemployed youth – into political activists. We seek to mobilise a group of people who have not previously been mobilised. We want to cause disaffection from the regime who govern against their own people. We want to mobilise small-t troublemakers.”
But despite the recent rise in membership, the new right is very much the old right and Jim Saleam remains at the centre of it. Australian nationalism is a fractal of hyperlinks and blog posts, tied to reality by the occasional post office box.
John Moffat, an aged-care worker with tattooed forearms and spiked hair, is a prime example of the movement. He arrived at a meeting of the Australian Protectionist Party in late February.
Mr Moffat has previously been an Australia First candidate and ran for the now-defunct Australians Against Further Immigration before it was absorbed into One Nation.
“I’ve just been waiting with my finger up to the wind,” he said. “But with the crashing of the economy, let’s say the tribes will start to consolidate. From this meeting, I’ve got a little bit of hope. I just picked up a membership form. More than likely, I will join them.”
A few points.
Erik Jensen: “The elevation of Australia First into a party capable of winning seats is in line with events overseas.”
The State-linked “anarchist”, “Andy” at the Slackbastard blogspot: Um… kinda sorta. But not really. That is, registration allows for a party’s name to appear on the ballot; whether or not this transfers into votes is another question entirely.
Erik Jensen: “…far right organisations such as the British National Party made a strong showing at last month’s European elections.”
The State-linked “anarchist”, “Andy” at the Slackbastard blogspot: It is indeed the case that the BNP won two seats in the European Parliament. However: a) its total vote increased only marginally from 4.9% (808,200 votes) in 2004 to 6.2% (943,598 votes) in 2009; b) the rise in the BNP vote was accompanied by a significant decrease in the Labour vote — in 2009, Labour gained 15.7% (2,381,760 votes) while in 2004, Labour received 22.6% (3,718,683 votes); c) unlike AF, the BNP has managed to obtain a foothold in a number of local councils — according to one source, as of February 2009, the BNP has 55 councillors. AF, on the other hand, has one: Bruce Preece.
Erik Jensen: “In the past few months skinheads [sic] from the Southern Cross Hammerskins have started organising to induct members and set up a record label and an internet radio station. The Ku Klux Klan has established a presence in Victoria with links to the expanding [K]lan in the US. The Australian Protectionist Party – which split from Australia First in 2007 – is preparing to lodge its own federal registration.”
The State-linked “anarchist”, “Andy” at the Slackbastard blogspot: Among various yoof sub-cultures, ‘racist skinheads’ are popularly referred to as ‘boneheads’. Welsh skinhead Roddy Moreno:
That aside, the SCHS have been around for years — in fact, about 15 or so. So too their kameraden in Blood & Honour (B&H) Australia. What is relatively new is their website (registered in November 2008) and the establishment of an auxilliary called ‘Crew 38’ (that is, the boneheads have formalised their recruitment process along the lines of numerous other ‘patched’ clubs). Also, while the record label Erik refers to (‘9% Productions’) is run by a Melbourne bonehead (and Hammerskin) named Jesse, the radio show is a B&H production.
In summary, and in reality, boneheads have been organising, maintaining an online presence, raising funds through various distros and broadcasting their views for decades now. Naturally, their fortunes have waxed and waned. One sore point is the partial re-emergence of rival boneheads belonging to Volksfront, an effort spearheaded by Saleam’s close collaborator Welf Herfurth (a former B&H rep in NSW) and Novocastrian bonehead Douglas Schott. Disgraced former Thales employee Nicole Hanley writes:
Last year [Volksfront] started a probationary chapter here, which pissed the Hammerskins off big time. Not because they wouldn’t support Volksfront, but because of how it was done. Doug [Schott] from Blood Red Eagle was the first probationary member, and he was allowed [to] start the chapter without having actually met any of the VF guys in the USA. A lot of the HSN guys can’t stand him and think he is a moron, so they were unimpressed with VF bending the prospect rules and letting him prospect sight unseen. Justin (AustMade) was in the scene years ago (I knew him back then), he also left and then has recently come back. He started off prospecting with VF, but then realised he had backed the wrong horse as HSN hated them, so he left and joined B&H Vic. And that’s pretty much where we are… try getting that group of egos to work together!
(NB. The horse-loving Hanley has stated on Stormfront that she will be attending the AF conference known as the Sydney Forum in September.) Otherwise, the hack of the B&H site in March caused some minor headaches; so too, the boneheads being booted from The Birmingham Hotel in Fitzroy in 2006, and adverse publicity surrounding gigs in 2007 and 2008. A gig scheduled for ANZAC Day this year also appears to have been less than a total success for the Master Race. Undeterred, the boneheads will be celebrating in style again in Melbourne this year (September 12), and are also arranging for a gig on April 17 on the Gold Coast next year. (Note that boneheads in the Czech Republic and Hammerskins in Portugal have run into more serious, legal difficulties of late.)
As for the KKK, like their boneheaded cousins, the bed-sheet-wearers have been stumbling about the political back-blocks for years, their racist shenanigans periodically triggering media interest — who can forget John HoWARd laughing off the antics of soldiers in Darwin? — but otherwise amounting to very little. Curiously, while a Klansman named ‘Hobbit’ wandered into the ‘Southern Cross Soldiers’ on Australia/Invasion/Survival Day this year, the Melbourne leader of SCS has hitched his wagon to the APP.
At the start of the year, APP announced membership in the party was Free!, and came with a Bonus! set of steak knives. Almost six months later, the party is still to obtain the requisite 500 signatures, but on the plus side retains possession of a room full of cutting implements.
Erik Jensen: Australia First began its return to federal politics on Australia Day, when Mr Saleam managed to associate himself with a mob of teenagers chanting nationalist slogans at Manly – a gathering which was played down by politicians and the police media unit, but which is being investigated as possibly the first act of co-ordinated racism since the Cronulla riots in 2005.
The State-linked “anarchist”, “Andy” at the Slackbastard blogspot: Huh. That is news. And quite bizarre, really. On the one hand, Mister Doctor Saleam, a veteran opportunist, ‘associates’ himself with all kindsa odds and sods: in my opinion, he jumped the shark in December 2008 when he proclaimed that AF would protest the coronial inquest into Tyler Cassidy’s murder. Further, the antics of perhaps as many as 80 or 100 middle class yoof at Manly on January 26, 2009, while no doubt disturbing to the shopkeepers and passers-by they racially abused, hardly constitutes a radical departure in teenage dickheadedness. On the other hand, insofar as groups of teenyboppers such as the SCS express any degree of political conviction, as SCS Melbourne’s alignment with the APP suggests, it’s by no means sure that they’ll fall under the spell of the 50-something Mister Doctor Saleam.
In conclusion:
The Australia First Party was initially registered on September 13, 1996, and de-registered on August 13, 2004. The fiendishly clever Dr. Fu Manchu Saleam managed to re-register the party in NSW (as the ‘Australia First (Council Elections) Party’) in order to seriously contest local council elections under that name (‘Australia First Party’), but for the last five years it’s been his ambition to revive the party on a federal level. There have been several obstacles placed in his path:
1) In 2007, the party underwent a split into three factions. The first was Jim’s mob; the second Diane Teasdale’s; the third the ‘Australian Protectionist Party’. While Jim’s mob maintains its crazy, Jew-hatin’ ways, and the APP regards The Muslim (closely followed by Herr Doktor) rather than The Jew as constituting the main threat to Australia, sadly, neither grouping is as enamoured of petunias as Diane.
2) In March 2009, AF was dealt a bitter blow by the forced departure of the ‘Patriotic Youth League’ and its Brisbane branch, aka John Drew.
3) In May 2009, Dr. Saleam revealed that the party’s incorporation had lapsed, canceled by West Australian authorities on February 20, 2006.
Erik notes that AF will “contest lower house seats in western and southern Sydney, on the Darling Downs and possibly in the Hunter”. That AF “expects to attract between 6 and 7 per cent of the primary vote” is one thing — its track record, and that of other racist, right-wing parties (with the exception of Pauline Hanson/One Nation in Queensland) suggest this may be difficult to achieve, and where it is, not necessarily of great political significance. As for “television campaigns”, these have been in the pipeline for years; AF’s connection to the trucking industry is by way of Peter Schuback, vice-president of the Australian Long Distance Owners and Drivers Association and owner of ‘Mineral and Mine Movers Transport’ (Peter lost for AF in the 2009 Queensland state election).
AF’s stronghold is NSW. It has a PO Box in Croydon, Victoria and, in addition to Peter Schuback in Hervey Bay and Peregrine John Beverley Jewell in Toowoomba North, enjoys the support of a fascist crackpot named Jim Perren in Queensland. The APP’s stronghold is also in NSW, but like AF it has the support of a PO Box in Croydon, and a handful of supporters in the ACT, QLD, SA, and WA. (APP also has its own Jim Perren in the person of Martin Fletcher.)
Which way the racist zombies like John Moffat will jump, to AF or the APP, and which group can successfully channel the libidinal energies of proud White yoof into fascist activism, will likely emerge the winner in the ding-dong struggle for the soul of White nationalism in Australia.
THE Ku Klux Klan says it has infiltrated an anti-immigration party preparing to contest seats at the next federal election.
David Palmer, the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in Australia, said several Klan members had secretly joined Australia First, a far right party that announced yesterday that it had the numbers to register as a political party.
“We aren’t interested in actually registering as a party,” Mr Palmer said. “Our main idea was we would move in and take back what we consider our Aryan parties. [The Klan] is a white pressure group; a white social group for white families. But also a reserve in case the ethnics get out of hand and they need sorting out.”
When he made similar claims about the infiltration of One Nation, the party formerly led by Pauline Hanson, two of his associates were expelled from the party. The NSW director of Australia First, Jim Saleam, vehemently denies his party has been infiltrated by the Klan.
Mr Palmer said: “Members don’t necessarily have to be Christian. As long as they’re white it’s OK.”
Early yesterday the NSW Treasurer, Eric Roozendaal, negotiated a deal with the Labor Party’s national secretary to guarantee no Labor preferences would go to Australia First.
The Liberal Party’s internal procedures do not allow a guarantee to be made so swiftly, but its federal director, Brian Loughnane, said Australia First would not benefit from Liberal preferences. Mr Roozendaal said: “One Nation got a foothold in Queensland due to one factor – Coalition preferences. This must not occur again.”
Australia First and another far right party, the Australian Protectionist Party, look set to contest the next election on an anti-immigration platform. Beneath them is a miasma of other radical groups consolidating their membership and building numbers in the face of economic instability. Some members shift between groups. Other groups divide over disputes about where to direct their efforts. Some, like One Nation, collapse and are re-absorbed by remaining groups.
Mr Saleam said the registration of his party would lead smaller groups or factions to start to see Australia First as a “focus point”.
Mr Palmer said there were three branches of the Klan in NSW, but he would not say where. Nor would he say how many members were active, but said each Klan meeting attracted about 20 members.
Late last year a second arm of the Klan – calling itself the Church of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Australia and New Zealand Realms – set up an internet forum moderated in Victoria. It dissociates itself from Mr Palmer but has strong links to the Klan in the US.
“We grow every day,” said the Victorian church’s female recruiting officer. “It’s not about hate, it’s about being proud of the skin we live in – proud in what our race is.”
Australia First has denied links to the
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movement, which has expanded its front in Australia by setting up an internet radio station and a record label.
Mr Saleam and the Protectionist Party have expressed interest in approaching the key youth movement – the Southern Cross Soldiers, formed by high school students in Kellyville before the Cronulla Riots in 2005 – but the soldiers’ leader has denied the connection.
“Australia and NZ remained unrepentant for their brutal suppression of indigenous independence movements in the Pacific. They rationalized such behavior as enhancing the welfare of the Islands and the human development of their people – just as they justified similar behavior towards indigenous peoples in their own countries.”
Sina Brown-Davis went to trial on Tuesday, June 30. She was charged with riot, affray and criminal damage, allegedly committed in November 2006 during protests at a meeting of the G20 in Melbourne. Today, July 9, Sina was found not guilty on a charge of riot, and guilty on a charge of affray and criminal damage. Sentencing takes place later this month.
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [July 2, 2009]
Maori activist and mother of three, Sina Brown-Davis, goes to trial before a jury in the Melbourne County Court today 2nd July 2009, on charges relating to protests against the G20 two and a half years ago in Melbourne.
She was demonstrating against the neo-colonialism of free trade agreements imposed on the Pacific. The Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations or PACER, is a free-trade agreement currently being pushed by Australia and New Zealand which will give unprecedented rights to foreign corporations, undermine indigenous land rights, and raise the cost of living.
Ms Brown-Davis plead not guilty on Tuesday to charges of riot and affray.
“The charges against Sina are part of a wider attack on dissent”, said Rayna Fahey from the G20 Support Network. “These charges are politically motivated and the case against her is over the top.”
For further infos on PACER-Plus, see : Pacific Network on Globalisation | Jane Kelsey, ‘A Peoples’ Guide to The Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER)’ [PDF] | 10 Reasons to Challenge the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER-Plus), April 2009 [PDF].
Note that two further trials are still to take place in the coming weeks.
A NEW group opposing immigration from Asia and the Middle East has jumped on the controversy surrounding Indian students in Australia, blaming Sydney’s inner-city rental crisis on the overseas student industry.
The Nationalist Alternative has left leaflets around Sydney University and other city campuses offering a “pro-Aussie movement” assistance in obtaining a lease on inner-city digs, and arranging collective houses to break free of real estate agents renting to the highest bidder.
“Local students are totally marginalised in the struggle for increasingly scarce resources, including accommodation and casual work,” said the group’s spokeswoman, Carla O’Hara.
“This effectively means they are being forced out of their traditional living space in the pursuit of Australia’s third-largest export: education. This is the white elephant standing in the room no one is willing to address.”
The group’s campaign comes as a top-level delegation from Australia visits India to mitigate the controversy that threatens to take a heavy toll on Australia’s education business.
Ms O’Hara said the Nationalist Alternative wanted to secure leases on behalf of students to cut out real estate agents and reduce costs to inner-city landlords and tenants.
“Many Aussies are increasingly finding themselves outmanoeuvred and ousted from an ultra competitive, inner-city rental market. Forced into unsuitable accommodation, including squats, the idea of plentiful, cheap, and geographically close student accommodation is as dead in the water as a free university education,” she said.
The University of Sydney was unaware of any extraordinary crisis facing students seeking accommodation. University authorities had not received any complaints about the leaflets.
However, Olivier Pollet, a Frenchman studying journalism at the University of Technology, said it was rubbish to blame the accommodation crisis, if one exists, on foreign students.
“This is actually the opposite of how the system of real estate works. I can assure you that coming from overseas makes it much harder to find a place, as you always need to show references, which you do not necessarily have in Australia, in order to find a tenancy,” he said.
Last year the Australia First Party’s [sic] campaigned unsuccessfully to send overseas students home. The party’s Jim Saleam criticised his new rivals, the Nationalist Alternative, saying they were “just a bunch of students from Melbourne”.
The Nationalist Alternative started a Sydney branch two weeks ago. Its members said the campaign would move to Melbourne and other Australian cities.
In the past few days the Nationalist Alternative’s Sydney leaflet campaign had been given large play on websites bearing words like “white pride world wide” and “Aryan pride”.
A few points.
1. The reference to ‘websites bearing words like “white pride world wide” and “Aryan pride”‘ is presumably a reference to sites like Stormfront, New Right, Skadi and enresist. On June 14, ‘White_Australian’ excitedly announced the group’s existence to the anti-Semites on SF, noting that “They seem to have some interesting articles and stickers/posters [and] images. It also appears they are happy to employ the black-bloc look employed by Autonomous Nationalists around Europe, particularly in Germany.” On May Day 2009, ‘Autonomous Nationalists’ in Hamburg — with a little help from German police — attacked a trade union rally.
2. The site was established on January 3, 2009.
3. The natalt.org site is down for the time being, but on July 1 it published an article titled ‘Can’t get a lease on an inner city place?’ by ‘Carla O’Hara’ and ‘Brian Hudson’. It is from this article that Damien Murphy quotes (“The Sydney branch of Nationalist Alternative is currently engaging in a campaign to reach out to help young Australians in the dire predicament of finding and securing a lease on inner city accommodation…”).
4. On June 26 the numpties published ‘Localised Failure of Liberal Democracy and opposition to the Newport Mosque’, outlining their activities in opposition to the construction of a mosque in the Melbourne suburb of Newport:
Nationalist Alternative attended meetings, donated funds towards hiring legal representation for the [Newport West Action Group] and spent evenings volunteering services for the resident activist groups [sic], including distributing their leaflets, advertising their meetings, and collecting signatures and donations and providing moral support.
NatAlt was able to build good relations with the group and with certain key members. As many of the residents are politically inexperienced and often don’t appreciate the deeper underlying issues, it was encouraging to hear people express their thoughts and show us that people are not apathetic and do have an awareness of changes occurring within their community.
5. NatAlt further participated in the local council election following the council’s decision to support the application to construct the mosque (at 21–31 Bleinheim Rd). (See : ‘Council yes to Newport mosque’, Hobsons Bay Leader, Stella Tzobanakis, October 21, 2008):
In response to this, NatAlt chose to lend support to one resident from a[n] action group who chose to be a candidate. NatAlt distributed a flyer advertising the council[‘]s decision and detailing how the council appeared committed to approving the mosque regardless of the resident[‘]s wishes, or [sic] without any concern [as] to how this would impact the area. Not only was the flyer one to inform residents, it was a call to kick the incumbents out and an endorsement of the community activist who was running for council.
Despite the sensitivity of the issue and the propensity for people to be critical of community members who express concern over such developments, NatAlt recieved [sic] negligible opposition to our efforts. We will continue to play an active role in this issue and help represent the understated and often ignored wishes and concerns of the local community.
Assuming the story to be true, NatAlt gave its support to one of the several dozen losing candidates for election to Hobsons Bay City Council. This may well have been Barbara Johnstone, who contested the Williamstown North Ward on behalf of the ‘Newport West Action Group’, gaining 705 votes and third place. (“Submitters (117 individual submitters) identifying themselves as part of Newport West Action Group (NWAG) represented by Mr Chris Taylor of Planning & Property Partners Pty Ltd and Ms Rebecca Parry” appeared at a Panel hearing into the mosque in June/July 2008. See : Hobsons Bay Planning Scheme Amendment C58 and Permit Application PA0613422, September 2008 [PDF]; Mosque plan flicked on, Hamish Heard, Star, May 20, 2008.)
Unlike similar campaigns in Sydney, the campaign to Stop the Mosque! in Newport does not appear to have generated much heat; that said, according to the Leader article, it did provide an opportunity for the Australian Protectionist Party to leaflet the area in an attempt to drum up anti-Islamic feeling (and a little publicity). The APP’s most recent brush with fame came courtesy of racist dingbat and former DJ Terrie-Anne Verney. APP also participated in a successful campaign to block the construction of an Islamic skool in Camden (NSW). The campaign served as the launching pad for the presumably rather brief political career of local Kate McCulloch, who after having her head displayed prominently on TV has opted to join the train-wreck known as the ‘One Nation Party’.
6. NatAlt drew lessons from their participation in this failed campaign, as the following mangled sentence suggests: “We could have attended and simply hit the area with purely abstract political material, replete with esoteric political though[t] straight out of a European think-tank and dressed in the black bloc look of our fellow nationalists in Europe from where we in Australia adapt the look.” This is by way of contrast to when the seven or eight NatAlts decided (‘Westgate Bridge Clean Up’, May 21, 2009) to do what nutzis in the US have done and done a little roadside cleaning (see : Road cleaned by neo-Nazis may be named for rabbi, Maria Sudekum Fisher, AP, June 21, 2009: “KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The state’s litter prevention program got an unusual ally last year: A neo-Nazi group adopted a half-mile section of highway in Springfield and picked up the trash…”).
7. Finally, NatAlt make reference to the fact that “In 2009 [sic], Melbourne University students with no alternatives for accommodation resorted to squatting, only to be faced with eviction [that is, were evicted] by the university“.
8. Like their comrades the ‘national anarchists’, the ‘Nationalist Alternative’ are hereby invited to wish in one hand, to shit in the other — and to see which one fills up first.
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?"
