{"id":39868,"date":"2016-05-13T20:39:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T10:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=39868"},"modified":"2025-10-31T12:09:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:09:54","slug":"coburg-versus-the-true-blue-crew-united-patriots-front-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=39868","title":{"rendered":"Coburg ~versus~ The True Blue Crew & United Patriots Front & Co"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Saturday, May 28, racist boofheads from a n\u00fc patriotik grouplet called the ‘True Blue Crew’ (TBC) have organised a counter-rally in the suburb of Coburg in Melbourne. On that date, Sue Bolton of the Socialist Alliance has organised a rally titled ‘Moreland says NO to Racism’<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Stop the forced closure of Aboriginal communities – Treaty now
\n\u2022 Let the refugees in – Close Manus and Nauru
\n\u2022 No to Islamophobia<\/p>\n

WHEN : 11am, Saturday, May 28
\nWHERE : Gather outside Coburg Library, Victoria St Mall. Then march to Bridges Reserve, Bell St, Coburg for community speakout and entertainment. Bring your lunch and join with other Moreland residents in saying our community supports a diverse and inclusive Moreland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The rally has been endorsed by a dizzying array of groups, including:<\/p>\n

\u2022 3ZZZ Greek programme
\n\u2022 Australia West Papua Association (AWPA)
\n\u2022 Australian Jewish Democratic Society
\n\u2022 Australian Services Union, Victorian & Tasmanian Authorities & Services Branch
\n\u2022 Brunswick Baptist Church
\n\u2022 Brunswick Neighbourhood House
\n\u2022 Brunswick Uniting Church
\n\u2022 Campaign Against Racism & Fascism
\n\u2022 CERES
\n\u2022 City of Moreland
\n\u2022 Coburg Islamic Centre
\n\u2022 Community Radio 3CR
\n\u2022 Construction, Forestry, Mining & Energy Union
\n\u2022 Cook Islander community group
\n\u2022 Didi Bahini Samaj (Victoria)
\n\u2022 Earthworker Cooperative
\n\u2022 Electrical Trades Union
\n\u2022 Fawkner Community House
\n\u2022 Federal Republic of West Papua (FRWP)
\n\u2022 Freedom Socialist Party
\n\u2022 Friends of the Earth
\n\u2022 Grandmothers against Children in Detention (Wills branch)
\n\u2022 Indigenous Social Justice Association
\n\u2022 Iranian Women’s Association
\n\u2022 Islamic Council of Victoria
\n\u2022 Jews for Refugees
\n\u2022 Kurdish Democratic Community Centre of Victoria
\n\u2022 Labor4Refugees
\n\u2022 Mariel Sudanese Cultural Forum
\n\u2022 Moreland Greens
\n\u2022 Mums for Refugees
\n\u2022 No Room for Racism
\n\u2022 Northern Interfaith and Inter-cultural Network
\n\u2022 North-West FM
\n\u2022 Political Asylum Comedy
\n\u2022 Radical Women
\n\u2022 Refugee Action Collective
\n\u2022 Robinson Reserve Neighbourhood House
\n\u2022 Socialist Alliance
\n\u2022 Sudanese Communist Party (Melbourne)
\n\u2022 Victorian Trades Hall Council
\n\u2022 Victorian Traditional Owners Land Justice Group
\n\u2022 Voices against Bigotry<\/p>\n

As for the TBC, they’ve given their counter-rally the rather grandiose title of ‘Stop the Far Left! – Rally Supporting the Australian Governments Use of the Offshore Detention Centers That Protect Our Nation’, further whining that:<\/p>\n

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So, basically, a rally against ‘Teh Left’. Note that the TBC is (currently) asking their supporters to assemble at Bridges Reserve at 10.30am — half an hour before the ‘Moreland says NO to Racism’ rally is scheduled to begin (at 11am at Coburg Library) and at the end-point of the march.<\/p>\n

Joining the TBC will be the UPF, whose very first public rally in Richmond (May 31, 2015<\/a>) targeted another socialist councilor, Stephen Jolly. Jolly was also the subject of a bizarre letter-writing campaign by the UPF in which followers were implored to write the Governor-General, Peter Cosgrove, requesting that he remove Jolly from office.<\/p>\n

No rlly.<\/p>\n

Obviously, neither the UPF rally nor the batshit letter-writing campaign met with any success; the possibility of a UPF member standing against Jolly for election was not an option, it seems, and remains a distant possibility given the failure of ‘Fortitude’, the UPF’s stillborn political party, to obtain the requisite number of members to register with the AEC. Indeed, times are tough for the UPF, with a number of departures from the grouplet in recent months and just a few supporters in Melbourne, Bendigo and Perth (and a handful of other locations). Dennis Huts, the leader (along with flunkey Kevin Coombes\/’Elijah Jacobson’) of the UPF in Perth, has been spending his time harassing queer yoof (see<\/em> : Perth fascists target teens<\/a>, The Perth Voice, April 29, 2016). In any case, the UPF’s fuehrer, Blair Cottrell, remains determined to become Chancellor, so the UPF can be expected to trundle along for a while yet, latching on to the TBC in this case, the anti-Muslim mob in Narre Warren previously, and performing occasional stunts for the media.<\/p>\n

As for the TBC, a few of its boofheaded faces (Zane Chapman, Corey Hadow) popped up at the July 18<\/a> Reclaim Australia\/UPF rally in Melbourne, in Melton on November 22<\/a>, and were in amongst it again at the UPF rally in Bendigo on February 27 this year. (In Bendigo, the TBC waved Australian flags, wore Australian underpants and capes, and made a puny attempt to break police lines in order to attack the small counter-protest outside Bendigo railway station. You can watch video of the minor incident here<\/a>.) Most of the TBC boys seem to be from Bendigo and Melton, and could be considered a (slightly) more grown-up version of the ‘Southern Cross Soldiers’. Well, sorta. They’ll be joined by the UPF on May 28, presumably along with most of the rest of the fascist mileu in Melbourne (Nationalist Alternative, PDLA, et. al.), Victoria and even interstate.<\/p>\n

Finally, it’s been a while since the far right elected to hold a public rally in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. About 20 years, in fact, during the period in the late 1980s through to the mid- to late-1990s, when neo-Nazi grouplet National Action and various other boneheads held rallies and even established a bunker in Fawkner. See<\/em> : Anti-fascism in Melbourne: 1990s<\/a> (March 20, 2007). psyberimp writes<\/a>: “We have driven Nazis out of Moreland on several occasions. We embarrassed them in Brunswick. Before they were hoarded onto a city bound train, a crowd of thousands chased about a dozen boneheads, including their fuehrer Michael Brander, down Dawson St where they took refuge in a warehouse.”<\/p>\n

Still, when all’s said and done …<\/p>\n

LOVE COBURG \/\/\/ HATE RACISM<\/H2><\/p>\n

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A PDF of the above can be downloaded here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See also<\/em> : Melbourne Antifascists<\/a> [Facebook<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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