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The SUWA Show (August 2016)

On this month’s episode of ‘Floating Anarchy’ on The SUWA Show on 3CR (5.30pm /// Friday, August 26 /// 855AM /// livestreaming on the 3CR website), our extra special guest is writer, musician and raconteur Iain McIntyre, who talks a … Continue reading

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Melbourne ‘terror’ raids : Phill Galea in trouble with the law (again)

Federal and Victorian police conducted several raids on houses in Melbourne and Victoria today, seemingly on the basis that some local radical right-wing activists had been planning harm to Victorians: Victoria police counter terrorism command Assistant Commissioner Ross Guenther​ said … Continue reading

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Spanish Revolution 80th Anniversary 1936–2016

July 19, 1936 is the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War and Revolution. Next week, the ASF-IWA has organised a meeting to commemorate the occasion: On the 19 July 1936, the CNT and the FAI launched … Continue reading

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Dispatches From Occupied Rigaer94

[fwd] Dispatches From Occupied Rigaer94 It has now been over a week since our doors were first cut off, cops and security intruded into our housing project, installing themselves in our stairways and other previously collective spaces. From then, the … Continue reading

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Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair 2016 : Sunday, August 14 @ Brunswick Town Hall

For the sixth year in a row, this time at a new location: Brunswick Town Hall. • books • pamphlets • zines • films • workshops WHEN : 10am-5pm, Sunday, August 14, 2016 WHERE : Brunswick Town Hall, 233 Sydney … Continue reading

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Floating Anarchy on The SUWA Show (June 2016)

>>> This SUNDAY, JUNE 26 /// 11am /// Victorian State Parliament /// Say NO to Racism in Melbourne

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antifa notes (june 23, 2016) : nazis, patriots, islamophobes, bigots, elections …

>>> This SUNDAY, JUNE 26 /// 11am /// Victorian State Parliament /// Say NO to Racism in Melbourne

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Jack ‘The Anarchist’ Grancharoff (1925–2016)

I just learned that Jelesko ‘Jack’ Grancharoff (July 5, 1925–May 15, 2016) has died. ‘Jack the Anarchist’ was a working class intellectual, published a long-running zine Red and Black, and was an ubiquitous presence at anarchist events, from the 1960s … Continue reading

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anarchist notes : iwa-ait splits

Update (June 9, 2016) : Response to the Yellow CNT on the IWA (CNT-AIT Regional de Levante). Well it’s hardly ‘news’, but it’s note-worthy: the International Workers’ Association (IWA) / Asociación Internacional de los Trabajadores (AIT) — the anarcho-syndicalist international … Continue reading

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Coburg ~versus~ The True Blue Crew & United Patriots Front & Co

On Saturday, May 28, racist boofheads from a nü patriotik grouplet called the ‘True Blue Crew’ (TBC) have organised a counter-rally in the suburb of Coburg in Melbourne. On that date, Sue Bolton of the Socialist Alliance has organised a … Continue reading

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