Category Archives: Student movement

Race! War! Deep! Divisions! Dramatic! Surges! (The Daily Terror)

‘City’s new race wars’ Gemma Jones The Daily Terror August 21, 2006 AN outbreak of racial violence is deeply dividing Sydney, with authorities alarmed by a dramatic surge in attacks. The worst have been directed at Jewish Australians in the … Continue reading

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Reds! Under our beds!

Don’t look now but… there may be a Red under your bed! Well… if you reside at RMIT. As the Herald Sun breathlessly reports: ‘S11 protest leader takes up new career’ Craig Binnie Herald Sun August 4, 2006 THE leader … Continue reading

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Iron. Lyin’. Zion.

According to Shua Garfield, writing in the DSP‘s Green Left Weakly (#678, August 9, 2006), members of another Leninist group, Socialist Alternative, were confronted at a stall at the University of Melbourne on July 24 by Zionist students, angry over … Continue reading

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Let’s do the Kutasi!

Bugger it. The recent media-storm-in-a-teacup regarding the sensational revelation that NSW Young Liberals aren’t exactly backwards-about-coming-forwards inre their attitudes towards women, queers and blacks prompted some ‘neo-con’ (statist reactionary) to leave a post on my blog: “The ‘Racist, sexist, homophobic’ … Continue reading

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Many Young Liberals are racist, sexist, homophobic nerds. And proud. Who knew?

I am shocked. Shocked and stunned. Collingwood has now lost three matches in a row! ‘Malthouse defends Pies’ The Age Michael Gleeson July 17, 2006 “COLLINGWOOD fell from the top four yesterday and faces falling out of the finals altogether … Continue reading

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Recommended reading: Knabb on cheese-eating surrender monkey business

Reflections on the Uprising in France A new and in some ways unprecedented radical movement has emerged in France. Beginning in February as a protest against the CPE, a law that would have made it easier to fire young workers, … Continue reading

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into my arms, oh bored, into my arms // what is to be undone?

I stumbled across the following passage, taken from an otherwise unremarkable resignation letter written by a small group of Trotskyists, and thought it deserved some sort of a reply. That — and reading a post by a soon-to-be-unemployed blogger — … Continue reading

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discipline & punish

I’ve been neglecting the student right. Here it is. (Or parts of it.) Counter-protesting. (Or planning to.) A ‘national day of action’ on April 11 in protest at the impending introduction of VSU. Peter Campbell, eat ya heart out. Young … Continue reading

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HoWARd’s South Park “pals”

Howard’s South Park pals Young voters have flocked to the Prime Minister as the good times continue to roll, writes Caroline Overington The Australian February 27, 2006 This is bullshit. So is this: “Before John Howard, the notion that young … Continue reading

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VSU cont.

In the last few months, a number of articles have appeared in the corporate press regarding the impact of VSU on student life and activism. Here’s a sample (including one from the Green Left Weakly): VSU: the job and service … Continue reading

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