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Posted on November 9, 2006 by @ndy

::: Social Movements Fighting Back in Latin America Come and celebrate with us! Hear stories and strategies from people who are fighting back and winning against neo-liberalism in Latin America. Key note speakers: Heriberto Salas : “The Other Campaign”. Initiated … Continue reading →

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Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-Revolutionary Australia

Posted on November 8, 2006 by @ndy

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” — Dom Helda Camara Next Friday, November 17 — the day before the G20 … Continue reading →

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Song for Dr. Cam

Posted on October 29, 2006 by @ndy

Dad was a big fan of Flanagan & Allen, the British comedy duo popular during WWII. The pair used cockney good humour to gently mock class snobbery, and in general their songs spoke to the trials and tribulations of ‘the … Continue reading →

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1930s Germany?

Posted on October 26, 2006 by @ndy

German Jewish Leader Says Right-wing Violence Recalls 1930s Deutsche Welle October 25, 2006 The president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany has said that the country was seeing a groundswell of right-wing violence which reminded her of the … Continue reading →

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Uh-oh spaghetti-oh

Posted on October 25, 2006 by @ndy

Eurofascism on da move… Far-right aims to form group in European Parliament 23.10.2006 – 17:42 CET | By Honor Mahony and Mark Beunderman EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Far-right politicians in the European Parliament are trying to form a political group … Continue reading →

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‘We need to push and shove and throw things’

Posted on October 21, 2006 by @ndy

Ha ha ha! Oh Ian… In the 80s he founded Class War, whose newspaper featured photos of beaten-up policemen. He went on Bash the Rich marches and was labelled Britain’s most dangerous man. Now a grandad with a dodgy brick-throwing … Continue reading →

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1, 2, 3, 4, 5 / We want Mosley, dead or alive

Posted on October 5, 2006 by @ndy

70 years ago, on October 4th, 1936, the people of the East End of London — men, women and children, young and old, “bearded Jews and Irish Catholic dockers” — told the British Union of Fascists to fuck off. And … Continue reading →

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The Continuing Appeal of Crasstafarianism

Posted on October 4, 2006 by @ndy

Huh. That’s interesting. I-and-I Googled ‘Crasstafarianism’ and found this: from a neat-o site, to boot! Anyways, as is the seemingly inevitable outcome of any significant (and even non-significant) cultural/political phenomenon, someone’s gone and written a book about it. Below is … Continue reading →

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Salvador Puig Antich : The Film

Posted on October 2, 2006 by @ndy

On 2 March 1974, the young militant of the Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación (Iberian Liberation Movement), Salvador Puig Antich, became the last political prisoner to be executed in Spain by the garrotte. This is his story and that of the … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Birminghams

Posted on September 30, 2006 by @ndy

Birmingham Hotel, 8pm, October 7th, 2006: Marching Orders Slick 46 Standard Union [SA] Slick 46 play “working class punk”; Marching Orders hate dirty, lousy, stinking “traitors” and Standard Union reckon “Our slogan is ‘Unionism Not Racism’.” ‘NOEL MARTIN’S FINAL STRUGGLE … Continue reading →

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