Category Archives: Death

Sado-workism: the new culture of work in Australia [Boris Frankel]

Gillard snubs UN on single parent welfare, The Australian (AAP), March 4, 2013 | PM’s pay to crack $500k as part of MP salary rise, Stephanie Peatling, The Sydney Morning Herald, June 13, 2013. Former prime minister Julia Gillard defended … Continue reading

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Pavlos Fyssas (Killah P) : Antifascist murdered by Golden Dawn in Athens

[Update : Account in English on Athens Indymedia here; The Greek Neo-Nazis of Golden Dawn – No Pasaran?, Interview with Dimitris Psarras, the author of the Greek “Black Book of Chrysi Avghi (Golden Dawn)”.] Last night 34 year-old Pavlos Fyssas … Continue reading

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Why neither major party is addressing indigenous poverty [Crikey]

[Brought to you by Non-Academics For Class War. "Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible." ~ Michel de Montaigne] Why neither major party is addressing indigenous poverty September 6, 2013 Despite the epidemic of indigenous poverty, neither … Continue reading

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The PNG Solution ~vs~ Operation Sovereign Borders

Well there’s not really a lot to add: ahead of the 2013 federal election, PM KRudd and Opposition Leader The Mad Monk are scrambling to outdo each other in their defence of The Nation, with KRudd first declaring (possibly unlawfully) … Continue reading

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Vale VEXNEWS?!?

Oh noes! After years of muck-raking on behalf of the ALP Right, Andrew Landeryou has finally decided to call it quits, publishing a TL;DR statement on his site http://www.vexnews.com/2013/07/the-last-post-landeryou-boned-by-the-faceless-men-of-vexnews/ which, as far as I can tell, boils down to the … Continue reading

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RIP Dan & Spit

A brief note: 15 years ago today (July 4), two skinheads — Lin “Spit” Newborn, 24, and Dan Shersty, 20 — were murdered by boneheads in the rocky desert northwest of Las Vegas, USA. They were killed because they were … Continue reading

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Vive Clement Meric

A French teenage antifascist named Clement Meric was murdered by boneheads in Paris on Wednesday night. The boneheads are reported to be members of the neo-Nazi group JNR (Jeunesses Nationalistes Révolutionnaires (Nationalist Revolutionary Youth)). JNR has been around for some … Continue reading

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#occupygezi et cetera

See also : What is Happenning in Istanbul?, tarihinde yayımlandı, June 1, 2013 | www.whatishappeninginistanbul.com. source : #occupygezipics Interesting times in Istanbul. The protests appear to be growing, but who knows where they’re going. I’m not sure what are the … Continue reading

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Goodbye Monsieur Venner, Hello French Hammerskins!

French far-right historian Dominique Venner (April 16, 1935–May 21, 2013) has committed suicide in a rather spectacular fashion. Venner’s action was apparently prompted by his fear that France was becoming ghey and Muslamic. You can read his suicide note here; … Continue reading

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[War is the health of the patriarchal state]

I thought that this passage from Terry Eagleton’s book Reason, Faith & Revolution (2009) — summarising Susan Faludi’s observations on 9/11 and US culture — was neat. It also helps to explain, I think, the mentality of many on the … Continue reading

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