Category Archives: History

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“Race suicide”

Posted on January 1, 2011 by @ndy

Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People, W.W. Norton & Co., 2010, pp.250–255: “Race suicide” loomed as an issue “fundamentally infinitely more important than any other question in this country”. For Roosevelt, this was not a matter of workers … Continue reading →

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Angers Hoegstrom / Anders Hoegstroem / Anders Högström Goes to Gaol / Jail / Prison

Posted on December 31, 2010 by @ndy

Swedish neo-Nazi Angers Hoegstrom / Anders Hoegstroem / Anders Högström has been sentenced by a Polish judge to two years and eight months imprisonment for plotting to steal the “Arbeit macht frei” entrance sign to Auschwitz, supposedly in order to … Continue reading →

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Informal Anarchist Federation // Federazione Anarchica Informale

Posted on December 30, 2010 by @ndy

From the Department of 40 Kiwi Anarchists… Courtesy of some poison pen letters, the ‘Federazione Anarchica Informale’ or ‘Informal Anarchist Federation’ (FAI) has been getting rather a lot of media attention in the past week, although what the FAI actually … Continue reading →

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Don Van Vliet

Posted on December 18, 2010 by @ndy

Don Van Vliet, ‘Captain Beefheart’, Dies at 69… Sweet little children with doves on their shoulders Their eyes rolled back in ecstasy cryin’ Please old man stop this misery They’re countin’ out the devil With two fingers on their hands … Continue reading →

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blog notes (december 17, 2010)

Posted on December 17, 2010 by @ndy

Update : Whitelaw Towers wages war on ZOG. I’ll be blogging less frequently during the course of the next few weeks. In the meantime, some blogs what are worthy of note: marrichiweu: a new local (Melbourne) blog about muzak and … Continue reading →

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Alexandros Grigoropoulos, two years on…

Posted on December 6, 2010 by @ndy

December 6 is the second anniversary of the police murder of Athens teenager Alexandros (aka Andreas/Alexis) Grigoropoulos. His death triggered widespread rioting in Athens and elsewhere in Greece; these uprisings in turn helped to lay the groundwork for further revolts … Continue reading →

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Union & Community Summer School 2010

Posted on December 5, 2010 by @ndy

Comrades, There’s a Union and Community Summer School next weekend (December 10-11, 2010) @ Melbourne Trades Hall. It’s a “public forum to build practical unity within the labour movement, for workers’ rights, social justice, economic democracy and environmental sustainability.” Yadda … Continue reading →

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Subcultures, Pop Music and Politics: Skinheads and “Nazi Rock” in England and Germany

Posted on December 4, 2010 by @ndy

Subcultures, Pop Music and Politics: Skinheads and “Nazi Rock” in England and Germany Timothy S. Brown Journal of Social History Vol.38, No.1 (Fall 2004) Right-wing extremist rock music–so-called “Nazi rock”–is one of the most problematic of popular musical genres. Emerging … Continue reading →

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A Brief History Of Neo-Nazi Music In Australia

Posted on December 2, 2010 by @ndy

See also : Subcultures, Pop Music and Politics: Skinheads and “Nazi Rock” in England and Germany. ‘Rock Against Communism’ (RAC) is the term given to a genre of racist, right-wing rock ‘n’ roll music popular with boneheads (neo-Nazi skinheads). It … Continue reading →

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…ever-patient and self-controlled…

Posted on November 26, 2010 by @ndy

From the Department of the Great Majority of the Police, Seemingly Ever-Patient and Self-Controlled, Stood for Hours as Kids Baited and Yelled, Shoved and Provoked. A Handful of Officers Used Well-Placed Elbows while Batons were Raised Only in Response to … Continue reading →

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