Category Archives: History

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Dr James Saleam : ‘The extreme white’

Posted on September 3, 2010 by @ndy

A blast from the past. Note that Saleam is a key speaker at the Sydney Forum (September 18/19). Also scheduled to speak is Canadian Holocaust denialist and neo-Nazi (“free speech activist” according to his friends and Uncle Rupert’s Fox News) … Continue reading →

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Gramsci and Left Managerialism : Kees van der Pijl

Posted on September 1, 2010 by @ndy

Gramsci and Left Managerialism Kees van der Pijl Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy Vol.8, No.4 December 2005 Abstract This essay argues that one way of understanding Gramsci today is as an organic intellectual of a class of … Continue reading →

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William Cooper ~versus~ Richard Wolstencroft

Posted on August 31, 2010 by @ndy

Update : Ferocious film politics: ex-MUFF volunteer launches smear campaign against festival director, Luke Buckmaster, Crikey, September 2, 2010. From the Department of Destroy All Yuppies! Over 70 years ago, a small group of local Aborigines, led by William Cooper, … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 30, 2010 by @ndy

On the evening of 29 August 1952 a crowd of avant-garde aficionados and local music enthusiasts filed into the Maverick Concert Hall near Woodstock to hear a piano recital by the young virtuoso David Tudor. That they should be here, … Continue reading →

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…a debate on Afghanistan

Posted on August 29, 2010 by @ndy

Let’s debate Afghanistan, but give us the facts first Tom Hyland The Age August 29, 2010 Where there is no information, there is no hope of a meaningful discussion. IT HAS taken nine years, the deaths of 21 Australian soldiers … Continue reading →

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S11 + 10

Posted on August 28, 2010 by @ndy

The term ‘September 11’ is now forever associated with the terrorist attacks upon New York and Washington in 2001; in 2000, however, ‘S11’ was the name given to ‘three days of protest + carnival’ against the Asia-Pacific Economic Summit of … Continue reading →

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Paul Howes

Posted on August 26, 2010 by @ndy

I keep getting hits to my blog from users either searching for the term ‘Paul Howes’ or clicking on a link from his Wikipedia entry. Both lead to a post dated February 1, 2008, and titled Would the real anarchists … Continue reading →

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Here’s To A Hung Parliament!

Posted on August 22, 2010 by @ndy

…results…

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Australian Federal Police (AFP) ~versus~ Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)

Posted on August 20, 2010 by @ndy

Well. Looks like Australian authorities are following the lead of foreign states, and attempting to eliminate support for terrorism. Today: “The Australian Federal Police (AFP) carried out raids across [Melbourne]’s north and south-east, as part of an investigation into the … Continue reading →

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Marilyn Buck…

Posted on August 19, 2010 by @ndy

On Tuesday, August 3, 2010, long-time political prisoner and acclaimed poet and translator Marilyn Buck, 62, passed peacefully at her home in Brooklyn, New York. See also : Warrior-Poet Marilyn Buck : No Wall Too Tall, The Rag Blog, May … Continue reading →

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