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2014 Sydney Anarchist Bookfair +++

Posted on March 27, 2014 by @ndy

I enjoyed attending the Sydney Anarchist Bookfair last weekend. It wasn’t quite Crassmas, but I did pick up a few things: a book — Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism by Michael Schmidt (AK Press, 2013: reviewed by Gabriel Kuhn here) — … Continue reading →

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1994–2014 : ¡Viva Zapata!

Posted on January 1, 2014 by @ndy

[January 1, 2014 is the 20th anniversary (BBC) of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico, so I thought I may as well re-post this interview with Subcomandante Marcos, an EZLN leader, conducted in April, 1994. There's another interview with Marcos … Continue reading →

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Pay the Writers?

Posted on November 14, 2013 by @ndy

Well this post is really only a matter of recording some bookmarks … I didn’t realise this ’til now, but Crikey owner Private Media are launching a new arts site. Good for them. Problem is, current policy is not to … Continue reading →

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Greg SPIRAL OBJECTIVE Loses Record Collection To Fire …

Posted on October 11, 2013 by @ndy

Very sad … I remember encountering Greg/Spiral Objective mail order sometime in the early ’90s thru an ad in the Green Left Weekly(!). Thru his distro (and label: 1991–2000) he helped introduce me and countless others to a world of … Continue reading →

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Why I’m NOT joining Socialist Alternative [Foreword]

Posted on April 15, 2013 by @ndy

An innocuous building for so monumental a task! behind iron gates & anonymous windows technicians in white smocks toil like busy little bees investigating in electromicroscopic detail the vinegrated cerebrums of late soviet luminaries to determine what made their heads … Continue reading →

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Love [Anna Akhmatova]

Posted on April 10, 2013 by @ndy

Now, like a little snake, it curls into a ball, Bewitching your heart, Then for days it will coo like a dove On the little white windowsill. Or it will flash as bright frost, Drowse like a gillyflower… But surely … Continue reading →

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Thank You Satan!

Posted on September 11, 2012 by @ndy

[Léo Ferré, 1955] Pour la flamme que tu allumes Au creux d’un lit pauvre ou rupin Pour le plaisir qui s’y consume Dans la toile ou dans le satin Pour les enfants que tu ranimes Au fond des dortoirs chérubins … Continue reading →

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More Pussy Riot from Melbourne to Moscow

Posted on August 25, 2012 by @ndy

Yeah so in case you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t heard, last week (August 17) three members of the Russian group Pussy Riot — Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova — were sentenced to two years in … Continue reading →

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Pussy Riot : сингл для приговора Путин зажигает костры // Putin Lights Up the Fires

Posted on August 18, 2012 by @ndy

Also here and here. …translation : Alex Bulgakov… The state in a jail is stronger than time The more arrests – the happier And every arrest – with love to a sexist Whose cheeks are shaking as his stomach and … Continue reading →

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Cosmic Psychos documentary is pozible?

Posted on July 6, 2012 by @ndy

Matt Weston is looking for funding for a documentary film about Melbourne band the Cosmic Psychos. He needs to raise $28,000 by the end of August. Do yourselves a favour and pledge your support on pozible.

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