Category Archives: History

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The Christian Brothers & child sex abuse : An accident of history (including GST)

Posted on May 8, 2013 by @ndy

The leadership of the Christian Brothers in Oceania appeared before the Victorian state government inquiry into child abuse yesterday on Friday, May 3. Given before a packed audience, their testimony was enlightening in some respects, contradictory in others, but otherwise … Continue reading →

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Helen Razer on Teh Left and the stoopid : Crikey!

Posted on May 6, 2013 by @ndy

Yeah. I thought I might as well throw this up. It’s kinda wEiRd. I mean, who and what is Teh Left? Apparently, “people who like rainbow crossings, petitions at change.org, and People with a Disability”. Liberals, in other words. Has … Continue reading →

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A few thoughts on May Day in Melbourne (2013)

Posted on May 2, 2013 by @ndy

[A post prompted by some disco elsewhere on the Internets…] May Day in Melbourne this year (2012) was a small affair — tiny even. Perhaps 30 or 40 people (overwhelmingly male) attended the 8 Hour Monument at midday, and sometime … Continue reading →

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Lest We Forget : Footy Fans Against Mass Murder

Posted on April 25, 2013 by @ndy

Lest we forget . . . on The Day, ANZAC Day, we remember the beginnings of a disastrous military campaign, and The Black & White Army (extra-parliamentary movement of the oppressed) looks forward to the dismantling of The Bombers (military-industrial-sporting … Continue reading →

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Trouble at Historical Materialism Conference Mill : Call for Solidarity

Posted on April 24, 2013 by @ndy

As leftist trainspotters and ‘revolutionary socialists’ generally would be aware, the Socialist Workers Party‘s poor handling of a rape allegation has had serious ramifications for the party’s public standing: this has included its relations with aligned parties elsewhere in the … Continue reading →

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Stella Artois : She is a thing

Posted on April 23, 2013 by @ndy

What with all the excitement over the fabulous redecoration (above) of the Tory Party’s hateful and deceitful billboard about asylum seekers I was naturally drawn to the Billboard Liberation Front website. There I came across the Stella Artois advertisement. Y’know, … Continue reading →

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May Day in Melbourne 2013

Posted on April 22, 2013 by @ndy

May Day this year falls on a Wednesday. At 11.30am the Wednesday Action Group will be meeting outside Her Majesty’s Theatre, 219 Exhibition Street (once home to the Melbourne Anarchist Club in the 1880s). At midday there will be a … Continue reading →

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The Wit & Wisdom of Dr Dennis Jensen, MP

Posted on April 16, 2013 by @ndy

Update : Jensen concedes ‘get over it’ tweets ‘inappropriate’ (Dan Harrison, The Sydney Morning Herald, April 17, 2013). Dr Dennis Jensen is a member of the Australian Federal Parliament. Dennis has a doctorate in materials science and physics, but is … Continue reading →

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Margaret Thatcher ~versus~ Julia Gillard

Posted on April 15, 2013 by @ndy

“You do not change your circumstance as an asylum seeker or a refugee with an adverse security assessment through hunger striking.” ~ Julia Gillard, April 15, 2013 “We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of … Continue reading →

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Why I’m NOT joining Socialist Alternative [Foreword]

Posted on April 15, 2013 by @ndy

An innocuous building for so monumental a task! behind iron gates & anonymous windows technicians in white smocks toil like busy little bees investigating in electromicroscopic detail the vinegrated cerebrums of late soviet luminaries to determine what made their heads … Continue reading →

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