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Rise rise rise…

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at … Continue reading

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Pope to Abdicate, King to Marry Mae West

The Kate Sharpley Library has re-published Albert Meltzer’s autobiography I Couldn’t Paint Golden Angels: Sixty Years of Commonplace Life and Anarchist Agitation. I thought this was pretty funny (note that culture-jamming was invented by sound-collage artists in the 1980s, or … Continue reading

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Protest Against Israeli Blockade on Gaza : Melbourne, June 5

Update : Israel left shot student ‘to bleed’, Kirsty Needham, The Age, June 5, 2010 | In their wake, Paul McGeough, The Age, June 5, 2010. Date: Saturday, June 5, 2010 Time: 2:00–4:00pm Location: State Library (Cnr Swanston & Latrobe … Continue reading

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“My thought is that while violence is always regrettable…”

In the context of a successful, and now several years old, community boycott of a formerly fascist-friendly Melbourne pub, (The Worst) Scabs Don’t Prosper… is a proposition that has provoked a good deal of ire, not least from ‘a concerned … Continue reading

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anarchist notes (may 18, 2010)

A few things. t r u t h o u t has an interview with Simon Critchley here. Note that Critchley has been inspired by the Australian pamphlet series cum book How To Make Trouble and Influence People and titled … Continue reading

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To be or not to be … an anarchist

To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of fucking trolls, Or to take arms against a sea of deadshits, And by opposing end them? See … Continue reading

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Men Who Hate Women)

I finally got around to seeing The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo the other day, and like that guy on the ad said many years ago about Wogs Out of Work, “It’s really really… good”. Once an independent journalist who … Continue reading

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VE Day : May 8/9

From the Department of Who Are the Mindbenders? comes… British soldiers have marched in Red Square in Moscow for the first time to mark the 65th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany on Sunday. Seventy six soldiers from 2 … Continue reading

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antifa notes (may 4, 2010)

Australia Asia Worker Links (AAWL) is holding a public meeting on Wednesday night to discuss ‘Fighting Fascism’. The meeting will include reports from recent anti-fascist actions. When : 6:30pm, Wednesday, May 5 Where : Trades Hall, cnr Lygon & Victoria … Continue reading

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Andrew Yeoman, BANANAs and SF police fight back!

Update : antifa notes (february 12, 2011) : BANANAs & Dresden. Police in San Francisco have charged two people with the crimes of assault with a deadly weapon, robbery, and conspiracy, after an altercation involving some anti-fascists and members of … Continue reading

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