Category Archives: Student movement

APEC : Protesting is baaad, mmmkay?

If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat? or If you like school, you’ll love work I believe the children are our future, and so … Continue reading

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APEC : Sorry, it just sounds like a crazy idea for me :)

Hi Emma, Gabrielle Boyle here from the TEN Newsroom in Sydney. We are currently covering a series of stories about the lead-up to APEC. We are wondering how to contact you or a spokesperson for your group today? Kind regards, … Continue reading

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Tricksy ASIO wants the nasssty anarchisssts

They’re all from New Zealand I tells ya! Police spy agencies target Australian universities Laura Tiernan wsws.org June 26, 2007 Last week’s revelation that police intelligence sought to recruit University of Sydney Students Representative Council (SRC) leader Daniel Jones to … Continue reading

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Anarchy: Against Capital, Against the State

[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

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‘Home Sweet Squat’

Source : The Melbourne Times, May 9, 2007, pp.8–9 The number of squatters in Melbourne may be growing, and new groups are forming to help them and fight for their rights. Brigid Enis discovers what it’s like to live without … Continue reading

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A lesson in economics

Sheesh. Closet pro-Situ and former ALP student political hack Darren Ray seems to lurch from one corrupt business to another. After overseeing the collapse of the Melbourne University Student Union in 2002 and 2003, Ray has most recently emerged in … Continue reading

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Fascism in Serbia, Russia…

‘Attacks in Serbia raise fear of a return to extremism’ [AP] International Herald Tribune April 17, 2007 BELGRADE: Serbia has been struck by a string of attacks against government critics that is fueling concerns of a possible explosion of ultranationalist … Continue reading

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G20: Another account

Below is the account of a person arrested in Sydney last week. I stole it from arushandapush, and I’m re-publishing it here ‘cos I think it deserves a wider audience, and maybe it will receive one by my doing so. … Continue reading

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G20: Sydney four in Melbourne court

The four men arrested as a result of terrorism squad raids in Sydney last week appeared before the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court yesterday. All four were bailed to re-appear on May 11. One, Daniel Jones, was “ordered to submit to forensic … Continue reading

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G20: Police fight terrorism; arrest protesters

In George II‘s ongoing and everlasting War on Terrorism™, in a joint operation involving members of the Federal, NSW and Victoria police, and acting under the direction of the ‘Police Terrorism Investigation Squad’, five people were arrested yesterday in dawn … Continue reading

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