Category Archives: Anarchism

Anarchist U!

Most of the time, in a wowserish city in which most amusements closed on Sundays, the Yarra Bank simply provided a form of free entertainment. For those interested in ideas, though, the forum offered what Labor Prime Minister John Curtin … Continue reading

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It’s The Extreme Left, Jim!

Australia First Party leader Dr. James Saleam has uncovered a shocking truth! The extreme left is noisy! Extreme Left Makes Noises On Confronting Australia First In Sydney: Forewarned, Forearmed Dr. Jim Saleam January 5, 2007 Two different extreme leftist groups … Continue reading

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Hilton Als on Tom Stoppard on Mikhail Bakunin

Hilton Als reckons Tom Stoppard’s new play — to be precise: Voyage, the first play of The Coast of Utopia trilogy — is “alternately reckless, romantic, boring, and exhilarating” (The New Yorker, January 8, 2007). Fucked if I know. But … Continue reading

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Capitalism Explained

Callan : Speaking of capitalism (“Crapitalism, actually”), I’ve been reading Tariq Ali‘s The Clash of Fundamentalisms (Verso, London and New York, 2003). Or should I say, I finally got around to reading Ali after having heard him speak to a … Continue reading

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A neo-Nazi nightmare

In a story that would bring a tear to the eye of my mate Jack (where are you?): Bigger than Hip Hop: Meet Seattle’s Dred I Movement (December 26, 2006) by Davey D. From ThugLifeArmy.com no less! GCLI noted that … Continue reading

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Anarchism in America // The Free Voice of Labor

Fucking Americans.* Kool Keith recently lent me his copy of a DVD published by AK Press: Anarchism in America (2006). It contains two films: the first is Anarchism in America (1981, 75 minutes), the second The Free Voice of Labor: … 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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Ungdomshuset vs. Christian Gentry

Ungdomshuset — The Youth House Stays! As part of the city authorities’ ongoing campaign to further gentrify and socially cleanse Copenhagen, right-wing Christians in Denmark are determined to evict the squatted social centre Ungdomshuset (‘Youth House’), established in 1982. 1,000 … Continue reading

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Michel Onfray : Militant Atheist

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. — Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right … Continue reading

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The Urge to Destroy: G20

Below is a text by one of the estimated 40 or so “anarchist crazies” from Aotearoa whom — along with English, German and Swedish “football hooligans who travel the world looking for violence” — Mick Armstrong of Socialist Alternative claims … Continue reading

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