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2022 Victorian state election : Left and Right

Posted on November 17, 2022 by @ndy

I asked a mexican who ran a bar for americans “who won” I said “the election?” he laughed and I felt like a gringo It’s that time again! Leaving aside The Usual Suspects (Labor, Liberal/Nationals and Greens), you can find … Continue reading →

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Far left candidates at the 2022 Australian federal election

Posted on April 29, 2022 by @ndy

Racing! Nominations for the 2022 Australian federal election have now been officially confirmed and — despite rumours that communists, socialists and other ‘far’ leftists lurk within the bosom of the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Greens — there’s only … Continue reading →

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Trot Guide February 2022 Update

Posted on February 8, 2022 by @ndy

According to the recently launched website Internationalist Standpoint: The main problem faced by the working masses internationally, today, is the lack of organization and leadership – the crisis of the system is reflected into a crisis of the working-class organizations, … Continue reading →

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Blogging 2021 : A Summary

Posted on December 31, 2021 by @ndy

See also : Blogging 2020 : A Summary. January (5) A flying start: three posts dedicated to Yeah Nah Pasaran! (interviews with Becca Lewis, Marc-André Argentino and Megan Kelly) plus one taking note of a failed coup and another about … Continue reading →

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #096 w Tom Tanuki on #MelbourneProtest & Freedumbs : November 25, 2021

Posted on November 24, 2021 by @ndy

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Tom Tanuki [Twitter] about recent agitations by ‘Freedumb activists’, especially the anti-vaXX rallies of November 20. Under the enormous umbrella of Liberty gathers a divers range of Ordinary Mums … Continue reading →

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CFMEU, broken windows, grifters, plague rats, workers’ solidarity …

Posted on September 23, 2021 by @ndy

[Update (September 29) : The plague rats have today obtained a qualified victory, as CFMEU outbreak: President tests positive, Setka in isolation, Michael Fowler and Ben Schneiders, The Age.] … and more besides. Just a brief note to let you … Continue reading →

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Token 2021 (Melbourne) May Day Post

Posted on April 29, 2021 by @ndy

Happy May Day ‘N’ All That. In Melbourne, May Day continues to shuffle along, and you can join in this weekend by way of: 1) A Walking Tour A tour of significant Melbourne anarchist historical sites commencing at Chummie Place, … Continue reading →

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Rise2Peace & Step Together to combat ANTIFA!

Posted on October 1, 2020 by @ndy

Rather like the blogpost the NSW government’s multi-million dollar ‘Step Together’ program cites as an authoritative source on ‘far-left extremism’, the ‘Rise To Peace’ (R2P) post on Antifascist Action (ANTIFA) is quite woeful — and it feels bad, man. To … Continue reading →

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[Beyond] Step Together Rise2Peace All Together Now Countering Violent Extremism

Posted on September 27, 2020 by @ndy

¡Qué bizarr0! A reader recently brought to my attention the fact that a NSW government program called ‘Step Together’ has recommended that The Kids™ obtain illumination about the dangers posed by ‘Far Left Extremism’ by Reading All About It! on … Continue reading →

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Trot Guide May 2020 Update

Posted on May 15, 2020 by @ndy

… and they’re off! For those of you coming in late, ‘Trot Guide’ is an overview of the current state-of-play on the Australian far-left. Thus it includes groupuscules that consider themselves Trotskyist (‘Trots’) as well as those who do not. … Continue reading →

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