Monthly Archives: January 2014

#FreeJoel [international appeal for solidarity with swedish antifa]

Posted on January 23, 2014 by @ndy

::: International call for solidarity! ::: We, anti-fascists of Stockholm, call upon the international left-wing movement to show solidarity and support to one of our imprisoned comrades. He is in jail for defending a local community-organized anti-racist demonstration in the … Continue reading →

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Who’s Keeping An Eye on Aussie Neo-Nazis? [newmatilda]

Posted on January 23, 2014 by @ndy

So I wrote another thing for New Matilda, this time on nazisinstraya. You can read it here. That’s all for now.

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ASIO and the Communist Party: New Light on an Old Tradition (Phillip Deery, 2007)

Posted on January 14, 2014 by @ndy

[The second episode of the documentary Persons of Interest screens tonight (January 14, 2014) on SBS at 8.30. It’s prompted me to publish the following …] Phillip Deery (2007), ‘ASIO and the Communist Party: New Light on an Old Tradition’, … Continue reading →

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WikiLeaks Party : R U Syrias?

Posted on January 13, 2014 by @ndy

John Shipton, CEO of the WikiLeaks Party (and Assange’s old man), recently sat down for a nice cup of tea with that nice man Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria and General Secretary of the Ba’ath Party (Bashar was of course … Continue reading →

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Anarchist Memes v Facebook

Posted on January 11, 2014 by @ndy

Briefly: The Facebook page ‘Anarchist Memes’ has been unpublished by Facebook. Ben Norton has written an article in response, published at Counterpunch and Dissident Voice. The reasons why Facebook chose to close the page are a bit obscure: precisely how … Continue reading →

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ASIO : Persons of Interest : Interview with director Haydn Keenan

Posted on January 10, 2014 by @ndy

PERSONS OF INTEREST – Trailer from Smart Street Films on Vimeo. Tonight on ‘The SUWA Show’ (5.30pm, 855AM, streaming at 3CR.org.au), Dr Cam & I have a chat with Haydn Keenan, the director of ‘Persons of Interest’, a new documentary … Continue reading →

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Black Rose Syndicat (Addendum)

Posted on January 7, 2014 by @ndy

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a thing for New Matilda about a storm in a teacup surrounding the Brisbane G20 summit, in this case one stamped ‘Black Rose Syndicat’. Apart from being somewhat bizarre (and therefore amusing), the … Continue reading →

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ASIO is really interesting to this person too …

Posted on January 4, 2014 by @ndy

Persons of Interest is a three-part documentary on ASIO which commences screening on SBS on Tuesday, January 7 at 8.30pm. I haven’t seen it yet but Dr Cam and I interviewed filmmaker Haydn Keenan (and academic Victoria Stead about PNG … Continue reading →

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housekeeping for anarchy

Posted on January 3, 2014 by @ndy

Well well, bloody Hell. Because I’m an idi0t, I thought I’d spend some time doing some housekeeping: namely, going through the sites I link to in order to establish which are still active. Unsurprisingly, because I haven’t done so for … Continue reading →

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1994–2014 : ¡Viva Zapata!

Posted on January 1, 2014 by @ndy

[January 1, 2014 is the 20th anniversary (BBC) of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico, so I thought I may as well re-post this interview with Subcomandante Marcos, an EZLN leader, conducted in April, 1994. There’s another interview with Marcos … Continue reading →

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