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trashicon // melbourne diy review

two quick plugs… should really sort my links out proper, eh? first, trashicon: Once again it’s monday, well soon to be tuesday but screw it i’m still on time… trashicon.net is proud to present issue number 8 – ‘wide’ if … Continue reading

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Let the Graffiti Games commence!

While the propaganda machine attached to the so-called “Official” capital- and state-sponsored Stolenwealth Games is in full swing, the homeless and buskers are being purged from our city’s streets, the police are treating graff crews (“vandalism gangs”) as terrorists, and … Continue reading

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Slackness. Creeping. Death.

Michael Blamey has a blog and on it he’s uploaded some really great photos of Melbourne… although I believe many would benefit from the sub-title ‘soon to be picturesque ruins’. (Or is that just me?) Michael notes that “Because of … Continue reading

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Special Guest Cartoonery (#1)

Another Ben ‘Getaway Driver’ Weerheym Production. [Cheers Marcus!]

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Camille Pissarro : Anarchist, Impressionist

The National Gallery of Victoria is curently showing an exhibition of works by Camille Pissarro, The First Impressionist. And ironically, while contemporary local anarchists will be celebrating ten years of the Black Star on March 4th, Melbourne’s yuppies will be … Continue reading

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Burn baby burn?

Recently, left-wing ALP maverick Bob Gould has weighed in on the subject of the DSP/Resistance and the burning of flags. From Bob the (Socialist Movement) Builder’s perspective, “It would be easy to dismiss this initiative as a dopey student prank, … Continue reading

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To burn or not to burn, that is the question

OK, so the antiwar movement may not have quite turned out to be the wild-orgasm-of-anarchists-sweeping-across-the-country-like-a-prairie-fire all right-thinking, political moderates such as myself were hoping for, but… Heated debate has erupted on University campuses. Well, kinda. Yesterday a few people shouted … Continue reading

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Burn-A-Flag-For-Lenin Week!

Confronted with a recent and continuing downturn in membership, the youth wing of the neo-Trotskyist Democratic Socialist Perspective appears to have hit upon a brand new (sic) idea to try and reverse the trend (or at least make a few … Continue reading

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“A congaline of suckholes” for Kerry

Peter McGregor If John Howard, Kim Beazley and co. are to give Kerry Packer a send-off, why shouldn’t we hold our own anti-state, anti-capitalist “dis-memorial” at the same time? After all, it’s us, the taxpayers, who are paying for Packer’s … Continue reading

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Leunig saved from free-fall

This is what happens when the fact slams into me that I have been secretly and maliciously set up and framed and that the story will soon be on the wire and the twisting and distorting of my life is … Continue reading

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