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Capitalism Explained

Callan : Speaking of capitalism (“Crapitalism, actually”), I’ve been reading Tariq Ali‘s The Clash of Fundamentalisms (Verso, London and New York, 2003). Or should I say, I finally got around to reading Ali after having heard him speak to a … Continue reading

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Long live Chairman Meow!

At last, a Revolutionary Leader worthy of my adulation! Everything that Chairman Meow says is the truth; every statement he utters is worth 10,000 sentences. His Thought is a spiritual atom bomb of infinite power. It supplies the breath of … Continue reading

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All I want for Crassmas is a Satanic, Hollywood Nazi

The US-based National Socialist Movement (NSM) is one of the more ‘entertaining’ neo-Nazi groups, so news that Kiwi fascists, in the shape of Sid “The Squid” Wilson‘s mob the New Zealand National Front, have decided to throw their lot in … Continue reading

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Cronulla. Bikini. Mosque… and @ in Eugene’s Ashes.

Long live Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky! Read Fergus Michaels (Australia: one year after the Cronulla riots, racialist provocations continue, December 21, 2006)! …In the build up to the first anniversary [of the Cronulla riots], there were similar efforts to … Continue reading

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They’re killing us all // To make the world safe

…I wonder why I don’t feel grateful? (And when will The Celibate Rifles next play Melbourne?) Inside and outside the bars of prisons, HoWARd Government policy is driving people to suicide. …inside… During the course of the last two weeks, … Continue reading

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Ungdomshuset vs. Christian Gentry

Ungdomshuset — The Youth House Stays! As part of the city authorities’ ongoing campaign to further gentrify and socially cleanse Copenhagen, right-wing Christians in Denmark are determined to evict the squatted social centre Ungdomshuset (‘Youth House’), established in 1982. 1,000 … Continue reading

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Campus Watch

Last month, Dateline ran a story on the US-based Campus Watch, “a project of the Middle East Forum, [which] reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America, with an aim to improving them”. Established by one of Australian President … Continue reading

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Michel Onfray : Militant Atheist

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. — Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right … Continue reading

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G20: Arrest #7

Police have been busy in Goongerah this week… and today laid charges against a seventh protester: Man faces court over G20 protests Catherine McAloon The Age December 15, 2006 A man has appeared in Melbourne Magistrates Court to face charges … Continue reading

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The Urge to Destroy: G20

Below is a text by one of the estimated 40 or so “anarchist crazies” from Aotearoa whom — along with English, German and Swedish “football hooligans who travel the world looking for violence” — Mick Armstrong of Socialist Alternative claims … Continue reading

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