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VSU cont.

Posted on April 5, 2006 by @ndy

In the last few months, a number of articles have appeared in the corporate press regarding the impact of VSU on student life and activism. Here’s a sample (including one from the Green Left Weakly): VSU: the job and service … Continue reading →

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Voluntary Student Unionism (VSU)

Posted on March 28, 2006 by @ndy

As discussed previously, the Australian student movement (such as it is) and the Australian student left (in particular) is facing a crisis, one created by the Federal Government’s passing of Voluntary Student Unionism (VSU) legislation (sometimes also unflatteringly referred to … Continue reading →

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Bloggy Thursday

Posted on August 13, 2009 by @ndy

PS. Unity News announced on August 5 that it would be closing, “to allow the administrators to concentrate on the Norfolk Unity website, which will carry all the news that would have appeared here.” Damn. I gotta shitload of sites … Continue reading →

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Tricksy ASIO wants the nasssty anarchisssts

Posted on June 26, 2007 by @ndy

They’re all from New Zealand I tells ya! Police spy agencies target Australian universities Laura Tiernan wsws.org June 26, 2007 Last week’s revelation that police intelligence sought to recruit University of Sydney Students Representative Council (SRC) leader Daniel Jones to … Continue reading →

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G20: Another account

Posted on March 21, 2007 by @ndy

Below is the account of a person arrested in Sydney last week. I stole it from arushandapush, and I’m re-publishing it here ‘cos I think it deserves a wider audience, and maybe it will receive one by my doing so. … Continue reading →

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I Was A Teenage Tory : John Hyde Page

Posted on December 13, 2006 by @ndy

Some people might say my life is in a rut But I’m quite happy with what I got People might say that I should strive for more But I’m so happy I can’t see the point Something’s happening here today … Continue reading →

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G20: And ‘revolutionary Marxism’

Posted on November 21, 2006 by @ndy

Below are six samples of the response of the authoritarian left to last weekend’s G20 protest. For the record, like, and to be critiqued in good time… 1) Bob Gould, ALP, November 21: Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment was … Continue reading →

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into my arms, oh bored, into my arms // what is to be undone?

Posted on April 23, 2006 by @ndy

I stumbled across the following passage, taken from an otherwise unremarkable resignation letter written by a small group of Trotskyists, and thought it deserved some sort of a reply. That — and reading a post by a soon-to-be-unemployed blogger — … Continue reading →

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discipline & punish

Posted on April 15, 2006 by @ndy

I’ve been neglecting the student right. Here it is. (Or parts of it.) Counter-protesting. (Or planning to.) A ‘national day of action’ on April 11 in protest at the impending introduction of VSU. Peter Campbell, eat ya heart out. Young … Continue reading →

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so what?

Posted on April 14, 2006 by @ndy

Approximately 2000 years after a Jewish carpenter was nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if people were nice to each other for a change (RIP Douglas Adams), I thought it was time to do an … Continue reading →

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