Yeah Nah Pasaran! #121 w Robert Horvath on Putin’s Fascists : June 23, 2022

Posted on June 21, 2022 by @ndy

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Dr Robert Horvath [Twitter]. As well as being a lecturer in Politics at La Trobe University and the author of Putin’s Fascists: Russkii Obraz and the Politics of Managed Nationalism in Russia (Routledge, 2021), Robert has the distinction of recently having joined a list of 121 Australians banned from traveling to Russia by its Foreign Ministry because ‘Russophobia’. We spoke to Robert about his book, fascism and the far right in Russia and the war in Ukraine (and in doing so I’ve recalled having blogged at some length about the state repression of and murderous neo-Nazi violence being directed at anti-fascists in Russia).

See also : Putin’s fascists: the Russian state’s long history of cultivating homegrown neo-Nazis, Robert Horvath, The Conversation, March 22, 2022 | Russian neo-Nazi Ilya Goryachev was jailed for life for a string of hate killings in Russia, Emily Moulton, news dot com dot au, July 29, 2015 | I was on a Russian nationalist hit list, Alexandr Litoy, Open Democracy, July 2, 2015 | A Russian Neo-Nazi and Suspected Spree Killer in Serbia, Lily Lynch, Balkinist, August 27, 2013 | [For Dion] The life and death of Ivan “Bonecrusher” Khutorskoy | Anastasiya Baburova (30.11.1983–19.01.2009).

4.30pm, Thursday, June 23, 2022 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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• This post is dedicated to the memory of murdered anti-fascists Alexander Ryukhin (April 2006); Alexei Krylov (March 2008); Anastasia Baburova (January 2009); Fyodor Filatov (October 2008); Ilya Bondarenko (July 2007); Ilya Dzhaparidze (June 2009); Ivan Khutorskoi (November 2009); Stanislav Markelov (January 2009); Timur Kacharava (November 2005) and to all the other fighters, known and unknown, who’ve left us.

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Karl Korsch: A Marxist Friend Of Anarchism

Posted on June 15, 2022 by @ndy

‘Karl Korsch: A Marxist Friend Of Anarchism’ is an essay by Andrew Giles-Peters (–2009) which was originally published in Red And Black, No.5, April 1973, published by Jack Grancharoff (1925–2016). I had reason to re-examine it recently and then thought I may as well chuck it up here.

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‘Keep Community Strong’ : 2022 3CR Radiothon

Posted on June 11, 2022 by @ndy

G’day my fellow Aussie patriots,

It’s Melbourne community radio station 3CR’s annual radiothon!

The theme of this year’s radiothon is ‘Keep Community Strong’.

3CR is a dynamic, community hub that has produced radio since 1976.

3CR broadcasters present around 125 radio programs every week, with 20 community language shows in 13 different languages, and 10 hours of Indigenous programming, and listeners can tune in on 855AM, stream live through the web or download podcasts of our shows.

The radio station was established in 1976 to provide a voice for those denied access to the mass media, particularly the working class, women, Indigenous people and the many community groups and community issues discriminated against in and by the mass media.

These last few years Cam Smith and I have been doing a show called Yeah Nah Pasaran! ‘examining, through an anti-fascist lens, ethno-nationalism, white supremacy and neo-fascism in so-called Australia, Aotearoa & around the world’ and during that time we’ve interviewed a range of people . This year that’s included Jock Palfreeman, Haley McEwan, Amanda Rogers, Bjørn Ihler, Sara Aniano, Amanda Moore, Richard McNeil-Willson, Cat Tebaldi, Kelly Weill, Andre Obeler, Stephanie Alex Baker, Mark Bray, Andy Campbell, Anke Richter, Jason Wilson, Hampton Stall, Cameron Wilson, Elle Hardy and Jordan McSwiney.

If you’d like to help keep us and 3CR on air, please consider making a donation.

And thanks!

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #119 w Jordan McSwiney on Pauline Hanson, One Nation Party and the far right in Australia : June 9, 2022

Posted on June 8, 2022 by @ndy

3CR Radiothon

Folks, running a radio station ain’t cheap and another year has gone by without the implementation of fully automated luxury space communism, so we gots to pay the bills.

3CR is a desperately needed audio oasis in the vast and unyielding desert of mediocrity that is the Australian media landscape – they truly give space for voices that don’t get a look-in anywhere else on the airwaves, and it’s critical that we support them.

Thank you for your time, your understanding, and most importantly, your money.

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Jordan McSwiney [Twitter]. Jordan is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. We spoke to him about Pauline Hanson, her One Nation Party, the 2022 Australian federal election, the Australian far right (and Australian media), ‘How Good is Western Civilisation?’ and more.

See also : In power but not in office: how radical right ‘outsiders’ can influence their mainstream rivals – the UK and Australian cases, Alan Wager, Tim Bale, Anika Gauja & Jordan McSwiney, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Vol.60, No.2 (2022) | Western civilizationism and white supremacy: the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, Henry Maher, Eda Gunaydin & Jordan McSwiney, Patterns of Prejudice, Vol.55, No.4 (2021) | ‘Far-Right Recruitment and Mobilization on Facebook: The Case of Australia’, Jordan McSwiney in Rise of the Far Right: Technologies of Recruitment and Mobilization, Melody Devries, Judith Bessant & Rob Watts (editors), Rowman & Littlefield, 2021 | One Nation at The Guardian.

4.30pm, Thursday, June 9, 2022 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #118 w Elle Hardy on Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World : June 2, 2022

Posted on May 30, 2022 by @ndy

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to journalist Elle Hardy [Twitter]. Elle is the author of Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World (Hurst, 2021):

How has a Christian movement, founded at the turn of the twentieth century by the son of freed slaves, become the fastest-growing religion on Earth? Pentecostalism has 600 million followers; by 2050, they’ll be one in ten people worldwide. This is the religion of the Holy Spirit, with believers directly experiencing God and His blessings: success for the mind, body, spirit and wallet.

Pentecostalism is a social movement. It serves impoverished people in Africa and Latin America, and inspires anti-establishment leaders from Trump to Bolsonaro. In Australia, Europe and Korea, it throws itself into culture wars and social media, offering meaning and community to the rootless and marginalised in a fragmenting world.

Reporting this revolution from twelve countries and six US states, Elle Hardy weaves a timeless tale of miracles, money and power, set in our volatile age of extremes. By turns troubling and entertaining, Beyond Belief exposes the Pentecostal agenda: not just saving souls, but transforming societies and controlling politics. These modern prophets, embedded in our institutions, have the cash and the influence to wage their holy war.

See/hear also : The Hillsong family emails, 7am (The Saturday Paper), May 26, 2022 | Hillsong: scathing internal letter denounces church response to Brian Houston’s ‘unhealthy’ leadership, Elle Hardy, The Guardian, April 22, 2022 | The Realization and Suppression of Religion, Ken Knabb, March 1977.

4.30pm, Thursday, June 2, 2022 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #117 w Cam Wilson on the federal election, social media and the right : May 26, 2022

Posted on May 24, 2022 by @ndy

On last week’s episode of the show, Cam and I briefly reviewed and had a yarn about the smol and micro-parties contesting last weekend’s federal election. On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Crikey’s Cam Wilson [Twitter] about the outcome and how some of the … not-so-nice, different and ah, unusual candidates fared. Speaking of which, while the results are still settling, one aspirant Senator is Ralph Babet in Victoria. According to Cam:

Soon after election night, Babet deleted his UAP campaign Facebook page, Instagram and Twitter account. However, archived posts from these accounts and other online content reveals that his views are well and truly in line with those of his right-wing populist and conspiracy promoting party leader Palmer.

Gee whizz!

I may write some more about how the far right (and the far left) fared at the ballot box this cycle, but in general results were disappointing for the right: Craig Kelly is not the Prime Minister and (with the possible exception of Babet) the return on Uncle Cliev’s $100 million investment has proven to be meagre. On the other hand, PHONy did at least secure another term for Dear Leader, increase its overall vote and hence — crucially — markedly improve its bank balance. Notably, Josephine Qashman didn’t let (((George Soros))) prevent her from getting a bronze medal in Lyne, while old mate, white nationalist and former Australia First Party flunky Victor Waterson bravely battled for Bennelong, narrowly defeating YouTube micro-celebrity Dougal Cameron. Finally, while Riccardo Bosi‘s plans to deal with traitors may have been delayed, happily, Rod Culleton no longer has to worry about bankruptcy disqualifying him from assuming his rightful place in the Australian Senate.

4.30pm, Thursday, May 26, 2022 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #115 w Hampton Stall on Dark MAGA & Militias : May 12, 2022

Posted on May 10, 2022 by @ndy

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Hampton Stall [Twitter]. Hampton is a ‘multi-disciplinary researcher and artist based out of the US South’, one who’s recently co-authored (with Daniel Grober) From Orange to Red: An Assessment of the Dark MAGA Trend in Far-Right Online Spaces (GNET, April 5, 2022) and helps maintain the Militia Watch website. We spoke to Hampton about Dark MAGA, militias, memes and more.

4.30pm, Thursday, May 12, 2022 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #114 w Jason Wilson on Rob Rundo, Todd Sampson, platforming & anti-trans hate : May 5, 2022

Posted on May 2, 2022 by @ndy


As America goes, so goes Australia.

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to semi-regular US correspondent Jason Wilson [Twitter]. We last spoke to Jason in October last year about all the cool and normel responses to COVID-19. Having been a regular columnist with The Guardian, Jason is now working with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). We spoke to him about American neo-Nazi leader Rob Rundo’s recent adventures, the problem with Todd Sampson’s flirtations with Rundo’s kameraden Down Under and the political meaning and significance of the elevation of anti-trans sentiment in the United States.

See : Former Marine Collaborates With Violent White Nationalist, Michael Colborne, Hannah Gais and Jason Wilson, SPLC/bellingcat, April 26, 2022 | The ‘Awakening’: American Right-Wing Extremist Finds Allies in the Balkans, Nermina Kuloglija, BIRN, April 13, 2022 | Inside Rob Rundo’s Fascist Propaganda Network, Jordan Jenkins, LCRW, March 17, 2022 | Action Zealandia, NZ’s largest neo-Nazi group, on the hunt for new recruits, Elliot Weir, New Zealand Herald, August 9, 2021 /// Redesign My Nazi bRanes; Or: Who Makes The Nazis (April 21, 2022) /// ‘Interviewing the far right is bad, so why do journalists keep doing it?’: ‘No Platform’ from above and below, Jeff Sparrow, Australian Journalism Review, Vol.43, No.2, November 2021 /// The right’s moral panic over “grooming” invokes age-old homophobia, Aja Romano, Vox, April 21, 2022.

4.30pm, Thursday, May 5, 2022 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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Far left candidates at the 2022 Australian federal election

Posted on April 29, 2022 by @ndy

Racing!

Nominations for the 2022 Australian federal election have now been officially confirmed and — despite rumours that communists, socialists and other ‘far’ leftists lurk within the bosom of the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Greens — there’s only a smol handful of self-proclaimed socialists taking to the parliamentary barricades this year.

(For a recent example of ye olde argument about the political utility of voting, see : Why do anarchists abstain from elections?, red & black notes and Socialists and elections, Red Flag.)

Sadly, having been de-registered by the Australian Electoral Commission in June 2021, the Australian Workers Party appears not to be running any candidates in 2022. Further, Ron Poulsen of the Communist League has once again failed to nominate for a seat, and no Communists of any other variety would appear to have thrown their flatcap into the ring. Happily, the Australian Progressives are fielding candidates in the race for the Senate in the ACT and Victoria, while Janine Rees is battling over Ryan (NSW) and Angela Fulco wants to steal Sturt (WA) from the Liberals. Finally, in a special 2022 BONUS!, Drew Pavlou’s Democratic Alliance wants to ‘give power back to the people’ by first installing itself in the Lower House seats of Chisholm (VIC) and Stuart (WA) and in QLD, NSW and SA in the Upper House. Note that, while Pavlou has described himself as a libertarian socialist, (Dr) Joe Toscano, formerly of ‘Libertarian Workers for a Self-Managed Society’, wants to put ‘Public Interests Before Corporate Interests’ by running for a seat in the Senate in Victoria.

Socialist Alliance

SAll is running five candidates for the House of Representatives — Sue Bolton in Wills and Sue Bull in Corio (VIC), Andrew Chuter in Sydney (NSW), Pat O’Shane in Leichhardt (QLD) and Sam Wainwright in Fremantle (WA) — and Senate tickets in NSW, QLD, VIC and WA. The Party recommends ‘preferences to socialist and Greens candidates ahead of the ALP, ALP before the Coalition parties and far right parties last’.

Socialist Equality Party

Our candidates are SEP assistant national secretary Max Boddy and WSWS writer Oscar Grenfell in NSW, longtime party member Peter Byrne and an International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) leader, Jason Wardle, in Victoria, and longstanding WSWS correspondent Mike Head and another IYSSE leader, John Davis, in Queensland. Their biographical details and how to vote for them as the SEP candidates can be found here.

Like the AWP, in February 2022 the SEP was de-registered by the AEC, but they can’t. won’t and don’t stahp campaigning on ‘A socialist program of action for the working class to oppose war and fight COVID-19 and austerity’.

Victorian Socialists

VS are running 11 Lower House Candidates in Victoria (Calwell, Cooper, Fraser, Gellibrand, Gorton, Hawke, Lalor, Maribyrnong, Melbourne, Scullin and Wills) and Aran Mylvaganam for a seat in the Senate. VS fared reasonably well at the 2019 Australian federal election all things considered, and also upon debut at the 2018 Victorian state election. But whether or not it can improve upon these performances is somewhat doubtful, and I don’t see the sense of splitting the socialist vote in Wills (Bolton versus Black).

See also : Balance of power politics is no way to win change, Solidarity, April 29, 2022 | Federal election: Get LNP Government out – have no illusions about Labor, Central Committee, CPA (M-L), April 10, 2022.

BONUS! Honesty

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #113 w Anke Richter on Conspiracies, Kvlts & COVID19 : April 28, 2022

Posted on April 26, 2022 by @ndy

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Anke Richter [Twitter]. Anke is a Kiwi-Kraut, freelance journalist and foreign correspondent, taz columnist, lover and writer of books. Anke has also been involved with FACT Aotearoa (Fight Against Conspiracy Theories Aotearoa): ‘a grass-roots activist group made up of volunteers from all professions’ which is ‘committed to fighting against harmful conspiracy theories that harm the very fabric of New Zealand society’.

See/hear also : The anti-vaccination infodemic ‘is a cult’ – researcher, Kirsty Johnston and Michelle Duff, stuff, March 17, 2022 (‘A few years ago cult expert Anke Richter would not have called the anti-vaccine movement a cult. She would now. So what has changed?’) | The extremism visible at the parliament protest has been growing in NZ for years – is enough being done?, Paul Spoonley, The Conversation, March 2, 2022.

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