Category Archives: History

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #191 w Nicole Nguyen on Suspect Communities & Terror Trials : January 18, 2024

It’s 2024 and we’re back on-air. This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Nicole Nguyen [X/Twitter]. Nicole is a learner/teacher/geographer and the author of A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in U.S. Public Schools (2016), Suspect … Continue reading →

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Southern Cross Soldiers + Tyler Cassidy + slackbastard + Google = 0

I recently stumbledupon a recent (September 2023) podcast interview by veteran crime reporter John Silvester with two of the police involved in the death of Melbourne teenager Tyler Cassidy in Northcote in 2008. Having made some posts on the subject … Continue reading →

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antifa notes (january 8, 2024)

[Update (January 13) : As noted by White Rose Society, ‘The ABC has reported on a violent assault in May 2023 in Adelaide’s CBD, carried out by National Socialist Network member Kane Brennand-Reynolds and another man, Martin Quinn.’ According to … Continue reading →

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Blogging 2023 : A Summary

Another year’s done gone. As in 2022, then, here’s a brief review of what appeared on the blog in 2023: January : I updated Trot Guide, made some notes about Invasion Day and anti-fascism — inter alia National Socialist Network … Continue reading →

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #188 w Aaron Winter on Reactionary Democracy, racism & antisemitism : November 30, 2023

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Aaron Winter [X/Twitter]. Aaron is a sociologist at Lancaster University and the co-author, with Aurelien Mondon, of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (Verso, … Continue reading →

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #187 w Alana Lentin on race, antisemitism, Palestine +++ : November 16, 2023

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Alana Lentin [XTwitter/Substack]. Alana is ‘a teacher and writer, and a Jewish European woman who is a settler on Gadigal-Wangal land (Sydney, Australia)’ who works on ‘the critical theorization … Continue reading →

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A reply to Paul Sakkal (The Age) on Nasser Mashni (Australian Palestinian Advocacy Network) & 3CR

1) On Wednesday, November 8, Melbourne newspaper The Age published an article by journalist Paul Sakkal titled ‘Top Australian Palestinian slammed for radio comments on destruction of Israel’. The ‘Top Australian Palestinian’ in question is Australian Palestinian Advocacy Network president … Continue reading →

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Australian Unions on The War on Gaza

[Update (November 8, 2023) : A community picket @ Webb Dock in Port Melbourne (see below) succeeded in preventing trucks loading the Zim vessel and it’s been forced to re-join the queue and to try again (perhaps days) later.] I … Continue reading →

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #185 w Brandi Buchman on January 6, Trump, criminal trials & political tribulations : November 2, 2023

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Brandi Buchman [X/Twitter]. Brandi is a writer and reporter for numerous outlets (including Daily Kos and Law & Crime) but, since January 2021, she’s been closely following … Continue reading →

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‘Good luck with the future, gentlemen’ : Sewell, Hersant … and Hammerskins?

Having both previously plead guilty to a charge of ‘violent disorder’, at a sentencing hearing today in the Victorian County Court, Tom Sewell and Jacob Hersant, the Melbourne-based leaders of the neo-Nazi grouplets European Australian Movement/National Socialist Network, were spared … Continue reading →

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