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RAFFWU Goes To Readings

Posted on March 12, 2021 by @ndy

aw yiss Today the Retail And Fast Food Workers Union announced: Readings staff are excited to announce that they are inviting management to negotiate an Enterprise Bargaining Agreement with them to secure wages, penalty rates and great working conditions long … Continue reading →

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #059 w Maik Feilitz on Digitaler Faschismus : March 11, 2021

Posted on March 9, 2021 by @ndy

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Maik Fielitz [Twitter] about ‘Digital Fascism’. Maik is a ‘Researcher at the Jena Institute for Democracy and Civil Society Doctoral Candidate in Department of Political Science, Goethe University Frankfurt’ and … Continue reading →

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Podcasts about (and of relevance to understanding) fascism and the far-right …

Posted on March 8, 2021 by @ndy

A brief, incomplete survey of some relevant podcasts (to which I’ll add more stuff): • 12 Rules For What ‘A podcast about fascists, nazis, and the far right, from the perspective of the left.’ • Behind the Bastards ‘dives in … Continue reading →

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A Current Affair, Tom Sewell, & Punching Nazis

Posted on March 2, 2021 by @ndy

[Update (March 3, 2021) : Today, Tom Sewell was charged with affray, recklessly causing injury and unlawful assault, and was bailed to appear in the Melbourne Magistrates Court in July. Jacob Hersant was released pending further enquiries. See : Victoria … Continue reading →

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Where have all the second-hand bookshops in regional Victoria gone?

Posted on February 26, 2021 by @ndy

A few years ago I asked What happened to Melbourne’s second-hand bookshops?. I gotta update that list, but in the meantime here’s another (I presume incomplete) list of second-hand bookshops in ‘regional’ Victoria. Albury* Books on Dean ‘Our bookshop is … Continue reading →

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #057 w Vincent Bevins on The Jakarta Method : February 25, 2021

Posted on February 22, 2021 by @ndy

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Vincent Bevins [Twitter]. Vincent is a journalist and the author of The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (PublicAffairs, 2020). The hidden … Continue reading →

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #056 w Michael Colborne on The Azov Battalion : February 18, 2021

Posted on February 15, 2021 by @ndy

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Michael Colborne [Twitter]. Michael is a journalist, a research fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right and the author of a forthcoming book on the Azov Battalion … Continue reading →

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #055 w Ashton Kingdon on AI, alt-tech, & occult nazis : February 11, 2021

Posted on February 9, 2021 by @ndy

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Ashton Kingdon [Twitter]. Ashton researches far right extremism, radicalisation, alt-tech, AI … aND TeH nazi 0CCuLt! … @ (among others) the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right: Ashton is … Continue reading →

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A note on the Proud Boys in Australia

Posted on February 4, 2021 by @ndy

[Update (February 11, 2021) : TLDR : In Albury-Wodonga, Jarrad Searby and a few other Boys paid a visit to some fella’s workplace and another fella’s home. Searby was mAd because they made Facebook comments he didn’t like. Neither were … Continue reading →

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #054 w Sabine Volk on PEGIDA, Fortress Europe & populism : February 4, 2021

Posted on February 3, 2021 by @ndy

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Sabine Volk [Twitter] about PEGIDA (‘Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the Occident’) and right-wing populism in Europe. Sabine is a doctoral fellow of the Centre for the Analysis of … Continue reading →

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