Monthly Archives: March 2013

antifa notes (march 29, 2013) : Golden Dawns & Gold Coast nazis

Golden Showers Y’know, when it comes to the response by some local Greek community leaders to the emergence of Golden Dawn in Melbourne, I’m honestly somewhat surprised. According to a number of anti-fascists who attended Greek independence day celebrations this … Continue reading

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“Nazis are not fucking welcome at a Dropkick Murphys show.”

Sieg Fail! As you may already know, the singer for the band Dropkick Murphys won a good deal of applause recently when he unceremoniously escorted a bonehead off the stage. Internet nazis were of course enormously butthurt by Ken Casey’s … Continue reading

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Greek Independence Day Organisers Welcome Golden Dawn to Melbourne

Update (April 2, 2013) : I didn’t realise this ’til now but the chair of the organising committee, Kostas Nikolopoulos, is also an editor at Neos Kosmos. Anyway, the Guardian has a report today on the global ambitions of the … Continue reading

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More regular blogging…?

NO.

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‘Left Unity’ or reshuffling the deck?

[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.

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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2013 WA state election : far left and right

Update : The Tories won. In Fremantle, SA candidate Sanna Andrew currently has 1.1% of the vote; in Perth, Farida Iqbal got 0.9% of the vote (155 votes), a few hundred less but a better percentage than she gained in … Continue reading

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League for the Revolutionary Party Communist Organization for the Fourth International (Australia)

Fuck yeah! Stumbling around the intertubes, along with the news of the death of Uncle Hugo and a vicious assault on a policeman by a Mardi Gras participant comes the announcement of ISL’s Break from the LRP. Better still, a … Continue reading

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Communiqué for Anarchist Actions in Barcelona and Response to the Nihilist Comrades

[I like this letter so I’m republishing it here.] Communiqué for Anarchist Actions in Barcelona and Response to the Nihilist Comrades Translated from Barcelona Indymedia (February 28, 2013) With this communiqué, we wish to claim the following actions, as part … Continue reading

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Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair ~versus~ kink.com

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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