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Cronulla Anniversary: A Kiwi Perspective

This month marked the first anniversary of last year’s racial riots in Cronulla. As New Zealand journalist Jehan Casinader writes from Sydney, tension has abated but the sentiment remains. Convicted neo-Nazi criminal (and St.George fan) Ross ‘The Skull’ May knows … Continue reading →

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

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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Tasneem Khalil : Justice, Bangladesh style

Dhaka-based journalist Tasneem Khalil has written “An investigative report on Rapid Action Battalion — a merciless death squad in Bangladesh that has tortured and killed more than 900 to date — published in the December, 2006 issue of the Forum … Continue reading →

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APEC 2007, ASIO… and CHOGM 1978

Spy chief issues APEC summit warning By Nick Butterly The Australian December 11, 2006 AUSTRALIA’S top spy has warned of possible violent protests and terrorist attacks at next year’s APEC summit of world leaders in Sydney. [Australian] President George W … Continue reading →

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The Great Australian Bikini March… Again!

‘The Great Australian Bikini March’ meme has legs, and it knows how to use them. Even when cancelled. In the upside-down world of (US) right-wing blogging, even Michelle Malkin has got in on the act. Knowing nothing about Australia (“are … Continue reading →

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G20: Two more arrests

Above : Police outside Parliament House, November 18, 2006. As has become standard practice at public protests since S11 (2000), none wear ID so as to better avoid identification by the public. A nominal requirement of Victoria Police Operating Instructions … Continue reading →

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Race hate and the state

‘Polish race hate groups spark concern’ according to Dr Krystyna Bleszynska of Warsaw University, addressing a race relations conference in the UK, as Polish neo-Nazis and assorted other fascist scum reportedly ‘forge links’ with their comrades in the UK. Duh. … Continue reading →

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Careful with that Axe, Eugene

Those “Eugene Anarchists” : A Cautionary Tale The Eugene Weekly is running a five-part series by Kera Abraham on anarchists in Eugene, Oregon (US), the community’s rise, government repression, and fall: In a high-profile sweep that began on Dec. 7, … Continue reading →

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Something old, something new… (and G20)

…old… Local non-profit anarchist fundraising label Love & Rage has folded. During its three years of existence, the label released a number of compilation albums — Love and Rage Vol I (2003); Love and Rage Vol II: Warnography (2004); A … Continue reading →

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@ in Indonesia

Foreign. Bloody. Agitators. They’re everywhere! Above : Indonesian anarchists protest George II’s flying visit to Jakarta, November 20 See also : Jakarta Anarchist Resistance | Anarch[Oi!] : Anarchy, Love, and PUNX | Autonomous Media (Manila, Philippines) | Anarchism in Asia … Continue reading →

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