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Anarchy: Against Capital, Against the State

Posted on June 23, 2007 by @ndy

[Update : see also ‘A Reply to the Polemics of Mick Armstrong’, September 16, 2007.] Every year or two, usually as a result of some media spectacle which has less-indoctrinated members asking all sorts of silly questions, Trotskyist groupuscules are … Continue reading →

Posted in Anarchism, Student movement, Trot Guide | 24 Comments

Trotsky versus technology

Posted on March 29, 2007 by @ndy

Yay! My favourite group of Trotskyites, the Spartacists (Hate Trotskyism! Hate the Spartacists!) have spat the dummy over Wikipedia. In a typically snarling polemic — ‘Wikipedia: A Million Monkeys Typing’, Workers’ Mop & Bucket, No.888, March 16, 2007 — the … Continue reading →

Posted in !nataS, Media, Trot Guide | 4 Comments

NSW State Election : Results

Posted on March 24, 2007 by @ndy

As expected, Labor has been returned with a slightly reduced majority, losing one seat (Lake Macquarie) to an Independent and one seat to the Nationals (Tweed). And John HoWARd’s really really really close friend Pru Goward has won the seat … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-fascism, State / Politics, Trot Guide | 2 Comments

Trot Guide 2007 #1.0

Posted on March 4, 2007 by @ndy

From The Socialist Unity Blog, via Leftist Trainspotters, the following: Where is the IST going? (March 1, 2007): …in Australia the Socialist Alternative is an IS derived organisation, [not] resulting from the expulsion of the Melbourne branch including Tom O’Lincoln … Continue reading →

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Cronulla. Bikini. Mosque… and @ in Eugene’s Ashes.

Posted on December 24, 2006 by @ndy

Long live Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky! Read Fergus Michaels (Australia: one year after the Cronulla riots, racialist provocations continue, December 21, 2006)! …In the build up to the first anniversary [of the Cronulla riots], there were similar efforts to … Continue reading →

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Communists on Cronulla

Posted on December 3, 2006 by @ndy

How timely! The God-less Communists of the International Committee of the Fourth International / World Socialist Web Site — well, one in particular, Fergus Michaels — have published a three-part analysis of last year’s Cronulla race ‘riot’: Australia: Police report … Continue reading →

Posted in State / Politics, Trot Guide | 1 Comment

Join in the chorus? Socialism vs. 2006 Victorian state election

Posted on November 26, 2006 by @ndy

[Updated : Monday] Oh dear. Trot Guide fears for the future of socialist electioneering in the state of Victoria. 1) In the safe Labor seat of Broadmeadows, Will Marshall stood for the horribly-named Socialist Equality Party (nee Socialist Labour League). … Continue reading →

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G20: Resistance vs. Socialist Alternative

Posted on November 25, 2006 by @ndy

Wearing my leftist train-spotting hat while clothed in white overalls, vegan boots, leading a dog on a string, listening to Loikaemie, and reading a copy of the Australasian Spartacist, I give you the wonderful mess that is: Resistance vs. Socialist … Continue reading →

Posted in Anarchism, History, Media, State / Politics, Student movement, Trot Guide, War on Terror | 2 Comments

Commie chief inherits £20.5m

Posted on November 13, 2006 by @ndy

The Sun November 11, 2006 The leader of Britain’s Communist Party has become a multi-millionaire — inheriting a £20.5 million painting that had been stolen by the Nazis. Anita Halpin’s huge windfall came when Berlin Street Scene, by German artist … Continue reading →

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Trot Guide to Victorian State election (November 25)

Posted on November 13, 2006 by @ndy

Exciting times at Trot Guide! 1) The DSP-dominated Socialist Alliance is fielding a grand total of four candidates this election: Margarita Windisch in Footscray; Vannessa Hearman in Brunswick; and Sue Bull and Rowan Stewart in the Western Victoria (Upper House) … Continue reading →

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