Category Archives: History

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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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ASIO is really interesting to this person too …

Posted on January 4, 2014 by @ndy

Persons of Interest is a three-part documentary on ASIO which commences screening on SBS on Tuesday, January 7 at 8.30pm. I haven’t seen it yet but Dr Cam and I interviewed filmmaker Haydn Keenan (and academic Victoria Stead about PNG … Continue reading →

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1994–2014 : ¡Viva Zapata!

Posted on January 1, 2014 by @ndy

[January 1, 2014 is the 20th anniversary (BBC) of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico, so I thought I may as well re-post this interview with Subcomandante Marcos, an EZLN leader, conducted in April, 1994. There’s another interview with Marcos … Continue reading →

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Mick Armstrong on Melbourne G20 protests, November 2006 [A Blast From The Past]

Posted on December 24, 2013 by @ndy

Yo Gabba Gabba wrote me to say he couldn’t find Socialist Alternative leader Mick Armstrong’s statement in response to a disturbance at an anti-G20 rally in Melbourne in November 2006. Given also the recent stoopid regarding the G20 meeting in … Continue reading →

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Jorge Semprun on Marx’s legacy …

Posted on December 23, 2013 by @ndy

In 1937, when the first German prisoners were assembled on the Ettersberg to cut down the beech forest, the system of the corrective labor camps, the Gulag, in other words, the great hurricane of that terrible year, was about to … Continue reading →

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