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antifa notes (june 23, 2016) : nazis, patriots, islamophobes, bigots, elections …

Posted on June 23, 2016 by @ndy

>>> This SUNDAY, JUNE 26 /// 11am /// Victorian State Parliament /// Say NO to Racism in Melbourne

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Jack ‘The Anarchist’ Grancharoff (1925–2016)

Posted on May 21, 2016 by @ndy

I just learned that Jelesko ‘Jack’ Grancharoff (July 5, 1925–May 15, 2016) has died. ‘Jack the Anarchist’ was a working class intellectual, published a long-running zine Red and Black, and was an ubiquitous presence at anarchist events, from the 1960s … Continue reading →

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anarchist notes : iwa-ait splits

Posted on May 20, 2016 by @ndy

Update (June 9, 2016) : Response to the Yellow CNT on the IWA (CNT-AIT Regional de Levante). Well it’s hardly ‘news’, but it’s note-worthy: the International Workers’ Association (IWA) / Asociación Internacional de los Trabajadores (AIT) — the anarcho-syndicalist international … Continue reading →

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Coburg ~versus~ The True Blue Crew & United Patriots Front & Co

Posted on May 13, 2016 by @ndy

On Saturday, May 28, racist boofheads from a nü patriotik grouplet called the ‘True Blue Crew’ (TBC) have organised a counter-rally in the suburb of Coburg in Melbourne. On that date, Sue Bolton of the Socialist Alliance has organised a … Continue reading →

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Robert Edhouse & Aryan Nations & United Patriots Front

Posted on May 10, 2016 by @ndy

Above : Robert Edhouse Above : Edhouse and two teenage nazis Strewth. ABC reported today that Robert Edhouse, President of the tiny neo-Nazi grouplet ‘Aryan Nations’ (Perth), has been arrested and charged with murder. Girrawheen murder: Teenagers among four people … Continue reading →

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#TrotGuide : Socialist Party (CWI) resignations

Posted on February 23, 2016 by @ndy

Update (February 25, 2016) : The SP has issued a statement in response to the below : Statement from Socialist Party National Committee (February 24, 2016). Yesterday 14 Socialist Party members, including City of Yarra councillor Stephen Jolly, tendered their … Continue reading →

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Blair Cottrell : ” … and I started getting arrested after I did that.” #Fortitude /// #UnitedPatriotsFront

Posted on February 23, 2016 by @ndy

Blair Cottrell — the leader of the United Patriots Front and Fortitude — appears as ‘Bruce’ in a recent documentary about youth in prison (the maximum-security Youth Unit at Port Phillip Prison in Truganina). In this passage he describes how … Continue reading →

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antifa notes (february 21, 2016) : Whitelaw Towers, United Patriots Front, Etc.

Posted on February 21, 2016 by @ndy

Whitelaw Towers Above : Nathan Sykes. For those of you coming in late, ‘Whitelaw Towers’ (WLT) is a neo-Nazi blog that often functions as a kind of online shit-sheet for Dr Jim Saleam’s ‘Australia First Party’ (AFP). Thus, while there … Continue reading →

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“What is anarcho-syndicalism?” : ASF-IWA Australian speaking tour : February 2016

Posted on February 2, 2016 by @ndy

Laure Akai, secretary of the International Workers Association (IWA), will be giving a presentation on the practice of anarcho-syndicalism this month. The IWA was founded in 1922 in Berlin and has sections around the world. The series of events around … Continue reading →

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The SUWA Show /// Invasion Day

Posted on January 21, 2016 by @ndy

On this month’s episode of the ‘Floating Anarchy’ edition of The SUWA Show (3CR /// 855AM /// Friday, January 22, 2016: 5.30-6.30pm), my co-host Dr Cam Smith and I talk to Professor Rob Sparrow of Monash University — recently declared … Continue reading →

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