July 25
July 25th is the International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners. To mark the occasion, compañerxs at Final Straw Radio recently interviewed Walter of the Antifa International social media project — and you can find relevant links with more information about the Day there. (#j25antifa was inspired by solidarity with formerly-imprisoned anti-fascist Jock Palfreeman, whom we interviewed for Yeah Nah Pasaran! this time last year.)
Julien Terzics : Salut à toi
In sad news, renowned anti-fascist Julien Terzics (1968–2024) died earlier this month. See : Julien Terzics, repose en paix, Gabriel Fonten, Freedom, July 17, 2024 /// La mort de Julien Terzics, ancienne figure de proue des antifas parisiens, Abel Mestre, Le Monde, July 10, 2024. Julien talked about his experiences as an anti-fascist in Paris in an interview published by Barricade: A Journal of Antifascism & Translation, Vol.4, 2022; some reflections on the contemporary moment in the United States are provided by way of Power Punch: Leveling Up Antifascist Theory and Action Using A Decade of Reflection on Fighting the Alt-Right, Stiff, It’s Going Down, July 19, 2024.
‘What’s a Bandera?’
That Ukrainian ultra-nationalists mourned the sudden death of Mr Stefan Romaniw is understandable, but why local elites joined them requires some elaboration. See : Australian Labor Party holds state funeral for global Ukrainian fascist leader, Oscar Grenfell, World Socialist Web Site, July 17, 2024.
National Socialist Network
Tommeh! Sewell’s nazi gang has been up to their old tricks, one of which — grooming boys on Apartheid Clyde’s mini-blogging platform — has come to the attention of the ABC. Or rather, the suspension of the Balwyn Boy’s account has. Hence: Neo-Nazi’s social media suspension is only a drop in the ocean against extremism, warn experts (Hannah Murphy, July 18, 2024).
Unsurprisingly, while some attention is paid to the role of Christian nationalist crowdfunding site Give Send Go in helping to provide a financial lifeline to the NSN in the article (though it also under-estimates this support by tens of thousands of dollars), no reference is made to its founders speaking at and sponsoring Warren Mundine’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Sydney last year. In any case, the right-wing circus returns to the Sofitel Hotel in Brisbane in October (5–6).
Last weekend (July 15), members of Sewell’s gang in Adelaide joined a small gathering of typically gormless cookers outside a public library in Salisbury in order to protest ‘Drag Queen Story Time’. To add to the spectacle, the Hitler-worshipping losers dragged out the same banner their Melbourne kameraden displayed when they joined Lady Parker & Co. outside the state parliament in March last year.
- Incidentally, Lady Parker’s ‘Party of Women’ contested 16 seats at the UK general election earlier this month, to negligible effect. As party lvl boss, Parker ran for the seat of Bristol Central, but received just 196 votes (0.5%). The winner, Carla Denyer of the Greens, on the other hand, got 24,539 (56.6%). Otherwise, M’Lady’s erstwhile ally in Melbourne, Moira Deeming (MP), continues to pursue her defamation case against Opposition Leader John Pesutto, with the court in session in September. More recently, The Mad Monk has thrown his support behind Deeming and the Victorian branch as a whole appears to be at risk of being further subsumed by the religious right. Speaking of which, see also : Christian Extremists Continue Attempts to Infiltrate Australian Politics, Paul Gregoire, Sydney Criminal Lawyers, July 19, 2024.
Finally, the NSN’s denunciations of ‘pedo filth’ — meaning, in their eyes, the rainbow families who’d gathered at the library to hear an entertainer read them children’s stories — is rather curious, not only because of the Adelaide cell leader’s previous immersion in the rather notorious death-kvlt known as the Order of Nine Angles but also on account of the current attitude of the NSN towards underage girls. See : Channel Seven openly promoting neo-Nazism, Tom Tanuki, YouTube, July 21, 2024.
