Category Archives: State / Politics

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Defend Assange and WikiLeaks on Human Rights Day in Melbourne

Posted on December 8, 2010 by @ndy

…and elsewhere. Defend Assange and WikiLeaks on Human Rights Day in Melbourne WHEN : 4:30pm, Friday, December 10 WHERE: State Library Lawns Julian Assange has been arrested in London. Join the protest to defend Assange and WikiLeaks on Human Rights … 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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Have a sausage

Posted on December 4, 2010 by @ndy

Brumby ‘surrounded by B-grade sycophants’ Paul Austin The Age December 4, 2010 SAVAGE recriminations have begun over Labor’s shock state election loss, with a former insider launching an extraordinary attack on John Brumby and the ALP hierarchy. George Droutsas, who … Continue reading →

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Feminist Futures?

Posted on November 29, 2010 by @ndy

Feminism. What’s up with that? Inspired by a similar gathering in Sydney in April this year, the melbourne feminist collective is organising a conference to take place next year @ North Melbourne Town Hall over the weekend of May 28/29. … Continue reading →

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I For One Welcome Our New Tory Overlords

Posted on November 28, 2010 by @ndy

If they win. As for the rest… The Socialist Party’s Steve Jolly done well: 2,395 votes and counting — almost 10% of the total. This is moar than the totals of the five Socialist candidates combined: the Socialist Alliance’s Mitch … 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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Bloodstains…

Posted on November 26, 2010 by @ndy

The bloodstained Order of United Americans first appeared in New York City in 1844 and soon spread to Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Catholic churches had been torched now and then since the mid-1830s (actually black churches too, but … Continue reading →

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Neither big nor clever!

Posted on November 25, 2010 by @ndy

Standing on police vans makes Aaron Porter cry. Students march in London and protest at colleges and universities across Britain against plans to raise tuition fees as part of widespread public spending cuts, guardian.co.uk, November 24, 2010.

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