Category Archives: That’s Capitalism!

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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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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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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[Blog post into Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse]

Posted on April 12, 2013 by @ndy

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse began last Wednesday (April 3). The Royal Commission’s Terms of Reference are broad-ranging. They are not confined as to the time at which a person says he or she was … Continue reading →

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‘Left Unity’ or reshuffling the deck?

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Tim Anderson

[Tim Anderson has written some thoughts on the prospects for unity on the Australian left. I thought I may as well republish it here as it’s of spotterly interest. See also : Left Unity (You Are My Destiny) [Trot Guide … Continue reading →

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Marcia Langton ~versus~ the unreconstructed few standing to the left of Fidel Castro & Co.

Posted on March 17, 2013 by @ndy

Huh. Marcia Langton Was A Communist. But the Communist League is not the Communist League. The Communist League explains: The [contemporary] Communist League was founded in 1989 as part of an international current sharing a course, and the Militant newspaper, … Continue reading →

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Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair ~versus~ kink.com

Posted on March 5, 2013 by @ndy

Yeah yeah yeah. I’m late to the party, I’m not going to the show and nobody cares anyways. Still… I thought I may as well note the controversy on my blog — it raises a whole host of issues — … Continue reading →

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