Category Archives: Student movement

Why Johnny Can’t Dissent (Thomas Frank)

Posted on April 24, 2012 by @ndy

[I once saw Thomas Frank LIVE! On October 1, 2002 @ Trades Hall to be exact. He was v funny.] Thomas Frank The Baffler No.6, 1995 The public be damned! I work for my stockholders. –William H. Vanderbilt, 1879 Break … Continue reading →

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Free Pussy Riot! Melbourne rally, Friday, April 20

Posted on April 17, 2012 by @ndy

PuSsY RiOt is a kick-arse group of anarchist/feminist/punk malcontents from Russia. Formed in October last year, their creative acts of resistance to the plutocracy in that country has made them, like so many others, targets of state repression. Currently, three … Continue reading →

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Dan Van Blarcom, Julian Ripley, Anarchists, Nazis, Bombs & Lulz

Posted on April 1, 2012 by @ndy

Huh. The Brisbane Times has an article by Frank Robson, titled ‘Spy or Nazi?’ (April 1, 2012), all about some bloke called Dan Van Blarcom. As a young man in the late 1960s, Dan joined the Australian Nazi Party (National … Continue reading →

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Richard Wolstencroft @ Melbourne Free University

Posted on February 26, 2012 by @ndy

Or; Fascism &/Or Libertarianism… On Thursday March 1, local filmmaker and “transcendental fascist” Richard Wolstencroft will be speaking as part of the Melbourne Free University’s program ‘Controversies On Film’: Week 3: 1.3.2012 Richard Wolstencroft, Australian Filmmaker and Festival Director Plenty … Continue reading →

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Who is Peter Watson?

Posted on February 25, 2012 by @ndy

Above : Peter Watson holds a copy of his zine The Spearhead (Warwick Daily News). *sigh* Given the nature of much of the media commentary that’s been generated in the wake of his forced resignation from the ALP, there’s likely … Continue reading →

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Peter Watson on homosexuality and paedophilia

Posted on February 21, 2012 by @ndy

Stone the bloody crows. FTR, Peter Watson’s comments on homosexuality and paedophilia — as made famous in a Courier Mail report — were originally published as a comment on my blog on March 26, 2009 (not 2007 as some media … Continue reading →

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Peter Watson for Warwick LOLWUT?!?

Posted on February 21, 2012 by @ndy

Update : Huh. The hullabaloo over Peter Watson’s fitness as the ALP candidate for the seat of Southern Downs in next month’s Queensland state election would appear to derive from comments he made on homosexuality. These comments appeared on my … Continue reading →

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I am the cancer! I am the dynamite! I am the table! I am, I said!

Posted on February 9, 2012 by @ndy

LOL. Twitter informs me that some bloke called Chris Hedges has written a rather silly critique of The Black Bloc Anarchists™ called ‘The Cancer of Occupy’. It presents a rather daft (which is to say inaccurate) account of the origins … Continue reading →

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hysterical slackbastard

Posted on January 6, 2012 by @ndy

A Twitter War broke out recently concerning the use of the term ‘hysterical’. In brief, Justin Shaw of The King’s Tribune wrote an article on pornography in which he referred to the “hysterical screeches” made by the “Anti-Pornography Activist, Lecturer, … Continue reading →

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Return of the Son of Occupy Melbourne

Posted on October 16, 2011 by @ndy

*Some nice Storytelling photos here too. At least 200 people, including children, gathered today at City Square in Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city, carrying banners and calling for an end to “greed.” Nick Carson, a spokesman for Occupy Melbourne, had predicted … Continue reading →

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