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Golden Dawn Down Under [overland]

Posted on April 11, 2014 by @ndy

I wrote an article for overland on Golden Dawn in Australia. You can read it here. Note that Golden Dawn have recently taken to meeting at Degani cafe in Northcote:

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Comments on ‘Hunting Australia’s neo-Nazis’ [The Saturday Paper, April 5, 2014]

Posted on April 6, 2014 by @ndy

As I grow older I see clearly and distinctly what is right and wrong in our way of life and how ridiculous is everything not achieved with one’s own blood and one’s own soul and everything not infused with love. … Continue reading →

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Hunting Australia’s neo-Nazis [The Saturday Paper, April 5, 2014]

Posted on April 5, 2014 by @ndy

This Saturday’s edition of The Saturday Paper has a feature article by Martin McKenzie-Murray titled ‘Hunting Australia’s neo-Nazis’ (April 5, 2014) in which I get a black ‘n’ white guernsey. I’ll comment on the article a little later but in … Continue reading →

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2014 Sydney Anarchist Bookfair +++

Posted on March 27, 2014 by @ndy

I enjoyed attending the Sydney Anarchist Bookfair last weekend. It wasn’t quite Crassmas, but I did pick up a few things: a book — Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism by Michael Schmidt (AK Press, 2013: reviewed by Gabriel Kuhn here) — … Continue reading →

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Internationalists issue declaration against war in Ukraine [libcom/aitrus]

Posted on March 3, 2014 by @ndy

… via libcom and ait, a statement on the situ in Ukraine … note that workers world published Statement of communist, left and anarchist forces of Russia on events in Ukraine on february 27 but i haven’t been able to … Continue reading →

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[#19BOS] List of Biennale of Sydney artistes w contact deets

Posted on February 28, 2014 by @ndy

Update (March 7) : Late this afternoon the Biennale Board announced the resignation of its chair, Luca Belgiorno-Nettis, and the immediate suspension of its contract with its major sponsor, Transfield. Briefly: this is a potentially significant step forward in the … Continue reading →

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A rose … [on anarchy and summit protest and stuff | overland]

Posted on February 10, 2014 by @ndy

I wrote some stuff for overland zine about the phony ‘Black Rose Syndicat’, black blocs and teh anarchy. You can find it here. It was inspired by Clive Williams’ rather poor article in The Canberra Times, which you can read … Continue reading →

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Who’s Keeping An Eye on Aussie Neo-Nazis? [newmatilda]

Posted on January 23, 2014 by @ndy

So I wrote another thing for New Matilda, this time on nazisinstraya. You can read it here. That’s all for now.

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ASIO and the Communist Party: New Light on an Old Tradition (Phillip Deery, 2007)

Posted on January 14, 2014 by @ndy

[The second episode of the documentary Persons of Interest screens tonight (January 14, 2014) on SBS at 8.30. It’s prompted me to publish the following …] Phillip Deery (2007), ‘ASIO and the Communist Party: New Light on an Old Tradition’, … Continue reading →

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ASIO : Persons of Interest : Interview with director Haydn Keenan

Posted on January 10, 2014 by @ndy

PERSONS OF INTEREST – Trailer from Smart Street Films on Vimeo. Tonight on ‘The SUWA Show’ (5.30pm, 855AM, streaming at 3CR.org.au), Dr Cam & I have a chat with Haydn Keenan, the director of ‘Persons of Interest’, a new documentary … Continue reading →

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