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"Never trust a hippy, especially a rich one."

https://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/…/how-easily-the-fickle-r…/

It's hardly surprising that Eddie Izzard, Alan Partridge and now even Russell Brand all want us to vote Labour. They are the people the modern Labour Party represents after all. Millionaires who ...
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On this date in 1937, the Italian anarchist Camillo Berneri was kidnapped from his home by in Barcelona by armed paramilitaries. Berneri was shot that night. Berneri (English Wikipedia entry | Span...
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They can't find a good word for him but I can: twat.

[via ReclaimWhat.net II]

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A new report shows that most of us think we live in the best country on earth. Perhaps that’s to be expected – Aussie pride is something you perform
www.theguardian.com|By Samira Farah
For a white, well-paid, widely read columnist, Andrew Bolt likes to talk an awful lot about racism. Of course, ever the martyr, Bolt’s focus is the ‘racism’ directed towards him and his kinfolk, not by those who have been historically discriminated against, dispossessed, disenfranchised and disempow…
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New goal: 5,000 likes by July 18.

(Nighty night.)

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Human Rights Arts & Film Festival (HRAFF) -- Melbourne, May 7 – 21 -- can has heaps of rlly interestink stuff: check it out!

http://2015.hraff.org.au/

Junior student screening (ages 7 yrs+) Felix dreams of being a jazz musician like his late father, but his mother hates the idea. She calls it ‘the devil’s music’ and tells Felix that he is ‘no longer her son’ when he chooses to play with a band. She laments the fact that she has to work hard to be…
2015.hraff.org.au

gofundme campaign to help pay funeral expenses for Linda Locke, allegedly killed by her partner ...

"A woman who was allegedly bashed by her de facto partner in Sydney's north-west has died in hospital, two days after sustaining horrific injuries.

Linda Locke, 51, was clinging to life in Westmead Hospital after being found in her Quakers Hill home on Monday morning with head injuries, serious bruising to her face and a collapsed lung.

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On Wednesday morning, police said she died overnight.

She has become the 34th woman to be killed by violence in Australia this year, according to Counting Dead Women, a project run by Destroy the Joint."

See : http://www.smh.com.au/…/linda-locke-dies-in-hospital-after-…

http://www.gofundme.com/ta73uac…

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Linda Locke was a mother, grandmother, daughter, sister and aunty. She was taken far too soon at the hands of her own partner. Her family now has the burden of paying for her unexpected funeral costs while grieving her tragic death. If you are able to spare even a few dollars to assist her family...
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New rash of neo-Nazi Combat 18 stickers in nth suburbs of Melbourne.

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Crass by name, Crass by nature.

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Conclusive evidence of extreme labour exploitation, slave-like conditions and black market labour gangs is found on farms and in factories supplying Australia's biggest supermarkets and fast food chains.
abc.net.au

Oh hai.

Prompted by a conversation below, I just went looking for a YouTube video neo-Nazi Neil Luke Erikson (aka 'Nationalist Republican Guard') uploaded back in late January/early February regarding my (very brief) appearance on an episode of The 7.30 Report (see : http://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=37421).

In his video -- titled 'Andy Fleming on The 7.30 Report' -- Erikson took some of the footage from that episode and redubbed it, taking the opportunity to have me (si...c) confess to a range of crimes springing solely from Neil's fertile and deeply anti-Semitic imagination. As with all of Erikson's video productions, the video was shared on his Facebook page by Shermon Burgess (aka 'The Great Aussie Patriot') and, despite being a rather crude fabrication (or perhaps because Burgess's followers are often not the sharpest tools in the shed), seemingly taken as Gospel truth.

Anyway, just now I checked to see if the video remains online and it's been removed. Which I guess is a good thing. I suppose the only other point to make is that both Neil Erikson and Shermon Burgess are rather grubby liars.

Nighty night.

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Why do racist dingbats want my attn so?
Is it because I'm sexy?
Yes ... prolly.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Speech by Gary Foley @ ‪#‎MayDay‬ rally in Melbourne, combining sharp wit, ‪#‎lulz‬, love for Melbourne, + superb taste in t-shirts: what moar could youse ask for? ‪#‎antifa‬

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqNJlZQfzN0

Dunno nothin' much about Akala but he strikes me as a v smart bloke. Good shit. (via O|L)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZUvjAJGFkM

Racism is a business. Its marketing is so successful that even Akala looks sideways at a young black man holding a lot of cash. Subscribe to The Guardian ► h...
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Evasion of Rational Discussion in the Radical Milieu
Jason McQuinn
Anarchy, #56

All too many anarchists – along with most other would-be radicals – seem to have mastered the evasion of rational discussion. This can be rather annoying and disappointing for those who would like to participate in the creation of a coherent new revolutionary movement which could genuinely confront and subvert state and capitalist power on the basis of anarchist theoretical principles and uncompro...

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Too many Florence Nightingales
Not enough Robin Hoods

[Where I'm comin' from ...]

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A little video I made for one of my favorite Housemartins songs.
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Sounds legit.

"It’s often said that a stateless society might work if everyone were angels, but due to the perversity of human nature some hierarchy is necessary to keep people in line. It would be truer to say that if everyone were angels the present system might work tolerably well (bureaucrats would function honestly, capitalists would refrain from socially harmful ventures even if they were profitable). It is precisely because people are not angels that it’s necessary to ...

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Problems and possibilities of a global antihierarchical revolution.
bopsecrets.org|By Ken Knabb

In response to some complaints:

Actually, in drawing attention to the lived reality of those at the other end of the economic, political and social scale in the UK -- and the carnage that is being created by austerity measures such as the Bedroom Tax and Welfare-to-Work -- I was attempting to suggest why the celebration of the birth of the Royal Babby is so disturbing -- and therefore richly deserving of subversion. In my view, displays of obeisance to Royalty function partly... in order to obscure this reality and represent -- successfully, in many cases -- a much wider and deeper attempt to harness people's emotions to inappropriate -- in fact, perverse -- love-objects. But not everyone cares about the arrival of another Royal Babby and many are in fact disgusted by the pomp and ceremony which accompanied it, especially as the ability to engage in such activity rests upon the immiseration of a large mass of others, whose births, lives and deaths count for nothing in the daily grind that is the ruthless machinery of state and capital.

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... and once moar (for good measure).

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The really awful thing about the recent deaths of these Britons is the fact that they did not live to witness the joy of the birth of The Royal Babby.

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Terry McGarvey, 48. Dangerously ill from polycytheamia, Terry asked for an ambulance to be called during his Work Capability Assessment. He knew that he wasn’t well enough to attend his WCA but feared that his benefits would be stopped if he did not. He died the following day.

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Malaysian anarchists are angry.

Fucking angry.

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Massive fucking props to anarchists in Malaysia on May Day.

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Winning.

Or, possibly, losing.

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Attitudes have changed for the better since 300 brave women marched in Sydney on Anzac Day in 1983, and that vindicates what they did.
smh.com.au
• After a sparkling debut on April 4, Reclaim Australia is returning to Melbourne on Saturday, July 18 (coincidentally, the 79th anniversary of the Spanish civil war and revolution). Neo-Nazis (Nat...
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MALATESTA BLOG -- A TOP READ FOR ANTIFASCIST GOINGS-ON IN THE UK! SEE ALSO : Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance (http://www.akpress.org/militant-anti-fascism.html).

https://malatesta32.wordpress.com/…/march-for-england-blac…/

Edit: one fascist wrote on Shirtfront: "At this point [of the march] the more "patriotardal" of the crowd noticed the good men of the Misanthropic Division walking on the other side of the road and...
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The lack of consultation and detail in the WA government’s plan to close up to 150 remote Indigenous communities has left people unsure of their future.
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Music by Chumbawamba, anti-copyright. Video stock footage, public domain. Poacher come with his poacher's gun Out in the woods to shoot someone "My Lord, you...
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Of poss interest:

'The Holocaust, the Aborigines, and the bureaucracy of destruction: an Australian dimension of genocide'
Paul R. Bartrop
Journal of Genocide Research (2001), Vol.3, No.1...
[PDF]
https://subversionpress.files.wordpress.com/…/…/genocide.pdf

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Benefits Street (Channel 4)/Struggle Street (SBS): same shit, different pile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIwywOmgqaY

Benefits street, Charlie Brooker on Benefits street. Weekly wipe 2014..Includes the hateful Katie Hopkins.
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Paying tribute to /// taking a leaf outta the bk of /// ripping off Channel 4's TV show 'Benefits Street' (2014), SBS is screening 'Struggle Street' this wk. A futile attempt to petition SBS to not screen The Struggle is accompanied by the following media release:

SBS URGED TO SUSPEND PLANNED BROADCAST OF 'STRUGGLE STREET'

Publicly-funded broadcaster SBS Television has been urged to suspend the planned broadcast of documentary ‘Struggle Street’ after participants, and the bro...ader community, were left shocked by a highly offensive promotional video for the project.

The first of the three, hour-long programs, is due to premiere on next Wednesday, May 6.

Mayor of Blacktown City Stephen Bali said he had been inundated by concerned residents — including some of those featured in the documentary — after promotional material for the documentary appeared to mock, degrade, insult and exaggerate their hardships.

“This isn’t a documentary, it is publicly-funded poverty porn,” Mr Bali said.

“Local residents feel they were lied to about what this documentary was about.

“Already I’ve heard reports of participants being bullied, vilified, and in some cases considering moving away from the area completely, and the program hasn’t even run yet.

“This is an unethical, damaging, exploitative, trash ‘documentary’ that has misrepresented local people, and our whole community.

“SBS must immediately suspend the planned broadcast, ensure the participants are shown the documentary in full, and make sure their views are included before any footage goes to air.”

SBS and private production company KEO Australia have so far refused to allow participants to view the full series before it is aired. They have also denied the participants a veto over some of the demeaning, offensive, and damaging footage.

Blacktown City Council last night launched an online petition calling upon SBS management to immediately suspend the planned broadcast until community and participant concerns were addressed.

Petition: https://www.change.org/p/sbs-television-network-cancel-the-…

SBS ‘Struggle Street’ promo: http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/431135811564/

Media Contact: Tim Vollmer — 0404 273 313

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Next Wednesday, 6 May, SBS will broadcast a documentary series titled ‘Struggle Street’, which was filmed in the public housing estates of Mount Druitt. The program gives a distorted account of the area, exploiting people living in difficult circumstances. The people featured in the program have b…
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A collection of recent rad.pol writings on history + philosophy + theory + practice, formatted for reading and publication.

https://subversionpress.wordpress.com/

With this blog we aim to spread texts written by various people which we think worth reading. We claim no credit for the content of these zines, merely the cover designs and formatting. We encourag...
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Police and protesters are clashing in downtown Montreal at a night-time protest organized by the anti-capitalist group CLAC.
cbc.ca

... and finally, mAAAAAAd props to + solidarity w the folk of Wangkatjungka -- you rock!

(Nighty night.)

http://www.abc.net.au/…/protest-against-forced-clos…/6431558

An Indigenous family uses the power of social media to spark upcoming protests around the world against the forced closure of remote Aboriginal communities.
abc.net.au
Thousands of people march in rallies around Australia in a series of protests against the proposed closure of remote communities in Western Australia.
abc.net.au
Melburnians will face major rush-hour headaches on Friday afternoon when protesters try to show the city "what it's like to have your town shut down".
theage.com.au

I admit to feeling energised this ‪#‎MayDay‬.

mAAAd love to all the social fighters everywhere on this our beautiful, dying planet ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3TV6vOt4Mc

Just a fan vid I made for The King Blues. If you spot any footage which is yours, please don't report. The video stands for a good cause. Let me know and I w...
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Garn!

Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance - WAR's photo.

SovHub camp after the Melbourne rally on Friday night - make sure you register on the link in the flyer:

‪#‎ShutDownMelbourne‬ to stop forced closures of remote Aboriginal communities in WA on ‪#‎MayDay‬. Racist wankers of ‪#‎ReclaimAustralia‬, ‪#‎Melbourne‬ is ‪#‎antifa‬, ‪#‎antira‬, ready, organised and waiting.

See you on the streets fascist scum!

--> https://www.facebook.com/events/1582401508664681/ <--

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Massive crowd in Melbourne today.

The REAL ‪#‎ReclaimAustralia‬!

Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land!

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Yo ‪#‎Melbourne‬ folks!

Indigenous peeps are setting up camp in "Kings Domain" ‪#‎SovHub‬ right ***now*** -- and would very much like it if you could join them helping set up camp and to express support!

If you have food, water, firewood, tents + other similar items, these too would be very much appreciated!

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Camp easily found on edge of Linlithgow Avenue. Look for the marquee!

For further infos, pls phone: 0404 272 194.

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FITE DEM BACK we gonna smash their brains in cause they ain't got nofink in 'em we gonna smash their brains in cause they ain't got nofink in 'em some a dem ...
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The ‪#‎ReclaimAustralia‬ boofheads are coming back to ‪#‎Melbourne‬ on Saturday, July 18.

Let's give the neo-Nazis, fascists, racists, Islamophobes + xenophobes a very warm, Melbourne welcome!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1582401508664681/

Just like chickenshit nazis the world over (including the ones of ‪#‎ReclaimAustralia‬ who've temporarily swapped their swastikas for the Strayan flag) ...

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ATHENS – “Systematically avoid the term national-socialism, for obvious reasons.”

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That emphatic directive appeared in a document circulated in the nationwide offices of Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party right before the Greek police unleashed an unprecedented crackdown against them in September 2013. Intended as an “eyes only” instruction for trusted party officers, it was meant to regulate the language used in initiating new members, and interacting with the public and media ...

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http://www.politico.eu/…/blurring-the-lines-of-golden-dawn…/

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The Greek far-right party is attempting to hide its roots in Nazi ideology as several party members prepare to go on trial.
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It's kinda kewl how Indigenous activists have motivated unions to do something (anything) on May Day. Who knows, maybe one day workers will actually reclaim it for themselves ...

'She told the poor what life is about /// And so the rich have rubbed her out.' ~ Bertolt Brecht on Rosa Luxemburg

https://www.marxists.org/archi…/luxemburg/1894/…/may-day.htm

Rosa Luxemburg: What Are the Origins of May Day? (1894)
marxists.org|By Rosa Luxemburg

Translation: We got caught stealing a design made by a company (Castledine & Castledine) for use by the RSL in WA to promote ANZAC Day. Subsequently, we've unpublished the photo which reveals we've made several hundred stickers using the design we stole in order to promote our new fascist Facebook party. PS. Our love of Hitler and neo-Nazism remains in our opinion fully compatible with our mawkish love of ANZACs.

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