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Tom Sewell’s little nazi gang (AKA ‘National Socialist Network’ AKA ‘European Australian Movement’) have been Carrying On, as usual. This has included having various scrapes with the law (about which there’s nothing I could be bothered adding). That said, since the last notes dropped (August 14), the boys have been Active in Adelaide, ‘Croweater’ having embarked upon a campaign to oppose the construction of a mosque in Evanston. Last week (August 29), the Islamic Society of South Australia noted:
During the last two months, we applied for planning approval from the Gawler Council for a mosque we plan to establish in Evanston-Smithfield. However, after The Advertiser published an article about the project in June, a Neo-Nazi group in the northern area known as “Croweater” began a campaign against the mosque. They distributed flyers in local letterboxes urging residents to submit objections to the council to block the approval. As a result of this campaign, the council received nearly 28 submissions, most of which were Islamophobic and contained highly negative feedback about Muslims and the mosque.
Despite this, the Gawler Council Town of Gawler addressed the situation with a high level of professionalism and granted us planning approval, as most of the complaints were not technical and had no relevance to the mosque’s structure or construction.
This incident adds to a troubling pattern of rising Islamophobia in South Australia, following previous events such as the dead kangaroo left at the Marion mosque and the attack on a hijabi Muslim woman at Marion Shopping Centre, with no significant action taken by the authorities thus far …
Neo-Nazis campaigning against a proposed mosque is of course hardly a novel phenomenon — and indeed, the roots of the current crop may be traced, by way of the United Patriot Front’s (2015–2017) failed campaign in Bendigo, to the campaign by the similarly-defunct Melbourne-based grouplet Nationalist Alternative (see : Nationalist Alternative : “just a bunch of students from Melbourne”, July 8, 2009) — but when they also happen to be yuge fans of St Tarrant, it’s not good.
Meanwhile, on August 16 in Melbourne/Naarm, the boys put in an unwelcome appearance near a solidemo with refugees outside Home Affairs in the Docklands, where asylum seekers on TPVs — in order to pressure the government into granting them permanent visa status — have been maintaining a presence for many weeks (see also : Grief and shock in Melbourne after Tamil asylum seeker dies by self-immolation, ABC, August 28, 2024). Having successfully posed for a fashion-shoot for the benefit of their many neo-Nazi kameraden and other fanboys overseas, the boys left: yet another Total Aryan Victory.
In other, related news, a(nother) Rich Kid (pictured above) called Hugo ‘AusPill’ Lennon (see : ‘Migration Watch Australia’) has apparently decided to go on an anti-antifa hunt, and to that end established an account (‘White Rose Society (Inverted)’) on Apartheid Clyde’s failing mini-blog, Twitter.
Personally, I reckon it’ll end in tears.
See also : Rejecting racism towards Palestinian visa applicants, Migration Scholars against Australian Border Racism towards Palestinians, Overland, August 21, 2024.
… And/Or German
In the NSN’s spiritual home of Germany, the AfD has had an electoral breakthrough in the state of Thuringia (Darker Turn, Loren Balhorn, New Left Review/Sidecar, September 5, 2024):
The AfD performed slightly above expectations, taking 32.8% of the vote and thereby gaining a so-called blocking minority in the state parliament, which would allow it to hinder constitutional amendments. Die Linke, whose polling numbers had been declining slowly but surely since former parliamentary speaker Sahra Wagenknecht split off to [form] her eponymous Alliance (BSW) last October, came in fourth with 13.1%, less than half of its electorate from 2019, most of which seems to have decamped to Wagenknecht’s new formation, whose 15.6% put it in third place, between the CDU and Die Linke.
Thuringia also happens to be the birthplace of the murderous National Socialist Underground.
See also : Queer Wanderings through the Other Germany and the Anti-Nazi Underworld: An Invocation, CrimethInc, August 19, 2024 /// Infiltrating the Far Right, David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, August 18, 2024 /// Anarchist Black Cross Belarus.
