Category Archives: History

…is what’s happening

Why occupy? #occupymelb #occupyX

Posted on October 24, 2011 by @ndy

Why not? This video of Friday morning’s eviction of Occupy Melbourne is neat. Inspired by Dr_Tad, Mark Bahnisch @ Larvatus Proedo has some blah on Occupy Australia and the Antipodean “bubble” (October 22, 2011), talkin’ ’bout a revolution Australian exceptionalism. … Continue reading →

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Whose Square? Who’s on First? #occupymelb

Posted on October 20, 2011 by @ndy

So a former teacher from Geelong Grammar (turned Tory party leader Lord Mayor) and another former student from Melbourne Grammar (turned Tory party leader) want police to remove the rubbish from Melbourne City Square. Ted is passionate about planning and … Continue reading →

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Occupy Melbourne ~versus~ Robert Doyle

Posted on October 19, 2011 by @ndy

Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle has declared he’s had enough of the unhappy campers occupying the City Square and that they should pack up their tents and go. Just how much time the occupiers have left before Doyle instructs the … Continue reading →

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Moaron Occupy(ed) Melbourne: Land & Labour

Posted on October 13, 2011 by @ndy

Unions show support for ‘OccupyOz’ movement writes Chris Zappone (October 13, 2011), “unions” in this instance meaning the National Union of Workers and the Communication Workers Union of Victoria and “support” meaning (seemingly) the probability that some union officials and … Continue reading →

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SP v SB

Posted on October 3, 2011 by @ndy

From a disco on Facebook… To recapitulate: R, you made some comments about state repression of anarchists under the Bolsheviks, the status of the death penalty, and recommended Serge (‘The Bolsheviks’ pet anarchist’) on Kronstadt. I pointed out that the … Continue reading →

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Mike Davis talks about the “Heroes of Hell”

Posted on September 30, 2011 by @ndy

Stumbledupon this interview with Mike Davis while searching for infos on los justicieros and thought I may as well re-publish it here. As far as I can tell, Davis’ Heroes transmuted into Buda’s Wagon. [See also : Daggers, Rifles and … Continue reading →

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Mark Esterhuysen is pretty fucking cool eh?

Posted on September 29, 2011 by @ndy

Good morning, I’m Mark Esterhuysen. Fuck racism. Fuck the pigs who killed Andries Tatane. Fuck the AWB. Fuck racism. We are all wild animals meant to live free. Fuck capitalism. Fuck fascism. Fuck this fucking wage slavery graveyard shit. Fuck … Continue reading →

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Hate: My Life in the British Far-Right (Matthew Collins)

Posted on September 28, 2011 by @ndy

[Combat18 Part2] [Combat18 Part3] Hate: My Life in the British Far-Right (Biteback, 2011) is exactly what it says on the tin: a 300-plus page account by Matthew Collins of his involvement in the British far right during the late 1980s … Continue reading →

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10 commandments for liberation

Posted on September 26, 2011 by @ndy

Ha! Stolen from Red & Black, No.5, April 1973 (also feat. ‘Karl Korsch: A Marxist Friend of Anarchism’ by A. R. Giles-Peters). 1 • thou shalt clean up thine own messes. no servants whether paid (cleaning ladies) or indentured (wives). … Continue reading →

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The Iron Column

Posted on September 24, 2011 by @ndy

I’m really looking forward to reading this… The Story of the Iron Column: Militant Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War Paul Sharkey (Translator) and Abel Paz Edition: pb ISBN: 9781849350648 Publisher: AK Press Release Date: 2011-07-13 The members of the … Continue reading →

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