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Casualised, Unemployed & Precarious University Workers Assemble! CUPUW 2021 Summit

Posted on March 24, 2021 by @ndy

Oh hai! FYI: On April 9th and 10th, CUPUW will be hosting ‘What Casuals Want: Getting Organised for Bargaining and Beyond’: a national, two-day online summit bringing together casual workers across the higher education sector. This will be an unprecedented … Continue reading →

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #060 w Stanislav Vysotsky on American Antifa: The Tactics, Culture, and Practice of Militant Antifascism : March 18, 2021

Posted on March 16, 2021 by @ndy

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Stanislav Vysotsky [Twitter]. Stas is the author of American Antifa: The Tactics, Culture, and Practice of Militant Antifascism (Routledge, 2020): Since the election of President Trump and the rise in … Continue reading →

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RAFFWU Goes To Readings

Posted on March 12, 2021 by @ndy

aw yiss Today the Retail And Fast Food Workers Union announced: Readings staff are excited to announce that they are inviting management to negotiate an Enterprise Bargaining Agreement with them to secure wages, penalty rates and great working conditions long … Continue reading →

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fundrazr for Jock Palfreeman : ‘Jock Stays!’

Posted on March 11, 2021 by @ndy

Contribute Here! Jock Palfreeman [Twitter] is an Australian national who in 2007 was backpacking through Europe. In Sofia, Jock witnessed a gang of nazi hooligans assaulting two Roma boys and stepped in to defend the two. Jock was quickly forced … Continue reading →

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #059 w Maik Feilitz on Digitaler Faschismus : March 11, 2021

Posted on March 9, 2021 by @ndy

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Maik Fielitz [Twitter] about ‘Digital Fascism’. Maik is a ‘Researcher at the Jena Institute for Democracy and Civil Society Doctoral Candidate in Department of Political Science, Goethe University Frankfurt’ and … Continue reading →

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Podcasts about (and of relevance to understanding) fascism and the far-right …

Posted on March 8, 2021 by @ndy

A brief, incomplete survey of some relevant podcasts (to which I’ll add more stuff): • 12 Rules For What ‘A podcast about fascists, nazis, and the far right, from the perspective of the left.’ • Behind the Bastards ‘dives in … Continue reading →

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #058 w H.E. Upchurch on Iron March & 09A : March 4, 2021

Posted on March 3, 2021 by @ndy

*This week’s episode is of particular relevance given: a) the proposed proscription by the Australian government of ‘Shannon Craig’ AKA Sonnenkrieg Division (and the ongoing inquiry into political ‘extremism’) and; b) the recent misadventures of the what-was-once ‘Antipodean Resistance’ but … Continue reading →

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A Current Affair, Tom Sewell, & Punching Nazis

Posted on March 2, 2021 by @ndy

[Update (March 3, 2021) : Today, Tom Sewell was charged with affray, recklessly causing injury and unlawful assault, and was bailed to appear in the Melbourne Magistrates Court in July. Jacob Hersant was released pending further enquiries. See : Victoria … Continue reading →

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Where have all the second-hand bookshops in regional Victoria gone?

Posted on February 26, 2021 by @ndy

A few years ago I asked What happened to Melbourne’s second-hand bookshops?. I gotta update that list, but in the meantime here’s another (I presume incomplete) list of second-hand bookshops in ‘regional’ Victoria. Albury* Books on Dean ‘Our bookshop is … Continue reading →

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Oh noes! A cwankypants made me remove some tweets!

Posted on February 25, 2021 by @ndy

I could be wrogn, but it looks like I’ve made some body mAd! FTR: ‘Kill The Poor’ (1980) is a Dead Kennedys song; I don’t remember who miamiaman is (their account deaded several years ago), but ‘kill all the jews’ … Continue reading →

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