Category Archives: History

…is what’s happening

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 →

Posted in Anti-fascism, History, State / Politics | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Anti-fascism, History, State / Politics | Leave a comment

‘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 →

Posted in Anarchism, History, Media | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Anti-fascism, History, Music | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in Anarchism, Art, Film, History, Music | 3 Comments

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 →

Posted in Anarchism, Film, History | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Anti-fascism, Collingwood, History, Music | 5 Comments

Um…

Posted on September 29, 2006 by @ndy

‘German faces fine for using Nazi symbols to fight far-right extremism’ [The Associated Press, via International Herald Tribune] September 27, 2006 STUTTGART, Germany A German man went on trial Wednesday for displaying Nazi symbols including swastikas even though he was … Continue reading →

Posted in !nataS, Anti-fascism, History, State / Politics | 1 Comment

Ian Stuart : Zero of the White Race, Skrewdriver, and “The Battle of Waterloo”

Posted on September 25, 2006 by @ndy

Update : September 25, 2008: A good (if typically flawed) biography of Ian and Skrewdriver, ‘The Legacy of Ian Stuart’, Fat Richard Warwick, Swindle, No.3. Note that while German label Rock-O-Rama — on which Skrewdriver released an album (Hail The … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-fascism, History, Music | Tagged , , | 281 Comments

Spartacism… the continuing obsession…

Posted on September 21, 2006 by @ndy

…with a shake of the balaclava in the general direction of Asher: The Communist Workers’ Group CWG originated as the New Zealand Spartacist League (NZSL) [of which the only remnant trace I can find online is here] in 1970 under … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Trot Guide | Leave a comment