{"id":41566,"date":"2017-07-13T23:02:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T13:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=41566"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:49:07","slug":"dr-tim-anderson-has-some-funny-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=41566","title":{"rendered":"Dr Tim Anderson has some funny friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

[I stumbledupon this vid again the other day, courtesy of the scallywags of Anti Fascist Action Sydney (see<\/em> : With Friends Like These\u2026 Tim Anderson & NSW\u2019s Fascists<\/a>, May 2, 2017), so I thought I may well as chuck it up here along with a few additional comments of my own.]<\/p>\n

While it’s true that politics makes for odd bedfellows, it’s an unedifying spectacle to witness an ostensible leftist address a gathering of the extreme-right, in this instance University of Sydney academic Tim Anderson<\/a> addressing the Leura Forum in November last year. In front of a banner reading ‘One People. One Destiny. One Flag.’, the brief vid below (the full vid is avail online elsewhere) begins with a very subtle dis of The Gay Mafia and a prayer for God Emperor Trump by the MC (dentist Dr Jim Sternhell<\/a>), followed by a few words from Tim, interspersed with complaints about Jews from an audience member, Ross May.<\/p>\n

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Apart from anything else, the presence of geriatric neo-Nazi Ross ‘The Skull’ May in the front row of Tim’s audience brings to mind another academic from Sydney, Peter McGregor (1947–2008). An anarchist and a political activist in addition to being an academic, McGregor participated in numerous campaigns, groups and projects during his too-short life. This included participating in the campaign to free one Tim Anderson from jail after he was framed<\/a> for the Hilton bombing (1978).<\/p>\n

Peter’s activities, especially in the name of anti-racism, naturally antagonised fascists and the far right. Hence<\/a>: ‘The Australian Nazi Party, ideologically aligned with apartheid, organised a brutal and cowardly assault on McGregor in 1971 which I witnessed. Its propagator, one Ross Lesley May (aka \u201cThe Skull\u201d), subsequently served time; but the police more often than not acquiesced in Nazi violence and that of fellow racists and the more fanatical rugby fans, who were often inseparable.’<\/p>\n

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Note that the speaker who followed Tim, Dr Jim Saleam, was also a member of the Australian Nazi Party at this time, while the speaker who preceded him, Keith Windschuttle, has also had some interesting things to say about genocide, and history.<\/p>\n

The situation is ironic, perhaps, but hardly a fitting tribute.<\/p>\n

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.<\/em><\/p>\n