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antifa notes (february 3, 2018) : STRAYA Day +++

STRAYA Day

Tens of thousands of people attended Invasion Day rallies across the country, with the rally in Melbourne attracting anywhere from 30,000 to 60,000. See : Invasion Day: the tide is turning, Lalitha Chelliah & Jacob Andrewartha, Green Left Weekly, February 2, 2018 | Invasion Day marked by thousands of protesters calling for equal rights, change of date, ABC, January 27, 2018 | ‘People are starting to understand’: huge Invasion Day protest stuns Melbourne, Calla Wahlquist, The Guardian, January 26, 2018 | ‘Invasion day’ rally draws crowds as agitator barred from ceremony, Tammy Mills, Gene Efron, Tom Cowie, The Age, January 26, 2018.

Apart from its size, the rally in Melbourne was fairly unremarkable — people assembled, listened to speeches, and marched. A comment by Tarneen Onus-Williams, however, enshrined her as the latest entry in STRAYA’s Hate Week:

“Fuck Australia. Hope it burns to the ground,” Onus-Williams said.

“If you celebrate Australia Day, fucker, you’re celebrating the death of my ancestors. All you fellas with the Australian flag should be so embarrassed with yourself. It’s embarrassing. It’s embarrassing that you celebrate people’s deaths, the people of this land’s death. You make me sick to my stomach.”

In response to the Melbourne rally, Warren Mundine’s Knee demanded that the ‘Koorie Youth Council’/KYC (for which Onus-Williams works as a volunteer) be immediately defunded:

I support moving Australia Day to 1 January. But this lot says “We don’t want to celebrate Australia Day at all.’’ They’re ashamed of Australia. They insult all Australians and Aboriginal people who campaigned for equality & inclusion. Koorie Youth Council should be defunded. I call on Daniel Andrews, Matthew Guy, Senator Richard Di Natale, Bill Shorten MP, Malcolm Turnbull and Senator Nigel Scullion to take all steps necessary to immediately defund KYC[.]

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Note that the principal organiser of the rally was a group called ‘Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance’ (WAR), not the KYC; the KYC later issued a statement reiterating this fact and distancing itself from Onus-Williams’ remarks. See also : Australia Is Tearing Down Another Woman Of Colour For Daring To Have An Opinion, Osman Faruqi, Junkee, January 31, 2018 | The Audacity of Anger, Chelsea Bond, IndigenousX, January 29, 2018.

WAR issued its own response to the kerfuffle, which you can read here, while #IStandWithTarneen became A Thing, and Tarneen elaborated on her views in ‘Invasion day’ rally organiser says her comments Australia should ‘burn to the ground’ should not be taken literally, Melissa Cunningham, Adam Carey, The Age, January 26, 2018.

As The Age report notes, earlier in the day Neil Erikson and ‘Patriot Blue’ — which on this occasion consisted of Neil and a handful of his mates — assembled at Moreland Council chambers in the morning to protest against Creeping Shariah & Cultural Marxism outside a citizenship ceremony; proceeded to the CBD to briefly occupy the steps of Parliament (long after the Invasion Day rally had left the assembly point); before eventually making their way to St Kilda, where the methgoblins of the ‘True Blue Crew’ and the remnants of the ‘United Patriots Front’ — now known as ‘The Lads Society’ — had organised a celebratory BBQ. About 50 or so patriotik volk rocked up. See : No clashes as patriots party with flags, cricket and racist slurs, Tom Cowie, The Age, January 26, 2018 | Fascists frolic on the foreshore, Ben Hillier, Red Flag, January 26, 2018.

local &/or general

In Sydney, the micro-Party for Freedom would appear to be in pretty dire health, with ‘Patriot Blue’ boy George Jameson leaving the group and Nick Folkes handing over the reins to Toby Cook, who’s recently come out as a neo-Nazi:

Some recent articles of interest include:

• The neo-Nazi has no clothes: In search of Matt Heimbach’s bogus ‘white ethnostate’, Caitlin Dickson, Yahoo News, February 2, 2018;
• Antifa vs. Milo Yiannopoulos: Who won?, Mark Bray, Salon, February 1, 2018 (‘It’s been a year since anti-fascist protests shut down a Yiannopoulos gig at UC Berkeley, to much media criticism’);
• An Investigation Into Red-Brown Alliances: Third Positionism, Russia, Ukraine, Syria, And The Western Left, libcom/Ravings Of A Radical Vagabond, February 1, 2018 (‘… is a comprehensive summary of Third Positionist fascist currents old and new, and the successful insertion of their ideas into leftist milieus and alternative media outlets’ — but one which requires some editing for clarity);
• The Rise of Australia’s Activist Far Right: How Far Will It Go?, Julie Nathan, ABC Religion and Ethics, January 31, 2018;
• How the far right has perfected the art of deniable racism, Gary Younge, The Guardian, January 26, 2018 (‘Electoral successes in Europe and the US are the result of a process whereby bigotry is made palatable’);
• A Decade of Resistance, Gabriel Hershman, Eye On Bulgaria, January 24, 2018 (‘Not even 10 years inside has quashed Jock Palfreeman’s spirits. A lesser man might have crumbled. To most people the processes that jailed Palfreeman, and then upheld his conviction for the murder of Andrei Monov, were marked by blatant corruption and lies’);
• Postmodernism Did Not Take Place: On Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life, Shuja Haider, Viewpoint, January 23, 2018 (‘A specter is haunting North America — the specter of postmodernism. Or at least, that’s what Jordan Peterson would have you believe. Peterson, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, has entered into an unholy alliance with all the powers of the alt-right to exorcise this specter. Though he calls himself a “British classical liberal,” Peterson’s appeal feeds into the most reactionary tendencies in contemporary politics’).

Finally, in the US, Samuel Woodward, a member of neo-Nazi grouplet ‘Atomwaffen Division’, has been arrested and charged with the murder of a 19yo Jewish antifascist, Blaze Bernstein. The group has been linked to other murders as well. See : Suspects in five killings reportedly linked to macabre neo-Nazi group, Kyle Swenson, The Washington Post, January 29, 2018 | The Suspect in the Killing of Blaze Bernstein Belonged to a Neo-Nazi Group Allegedly Connected to Four Other Murders, Molly Olmstead, Slate, January 31, 2018 | 1 Neo-Nazi Group. 5 Murders In 8 Months., Christopher Mathias, The Huffington Post, February 1, 2018 (‘The Atomwaffen Division has emerged as one of the most disturbing and volatile hate groups in America.’) | What Is Atomwaffen Division, The Nazi Group Tied To The Murder Of Blaze Bernstein?, Sam Kestenbaum, Forward, February 1, 2018.

BONUS! Pepe

A very rare Pepe made an appearance at the Brisbane Invasion Day rally!

Warren Mundine ~versus~ James Anaya

Mundine : The rapporteur also said there was entrenched racism in Australia, but the former Labor Party president says Australia is one of the most modern, civil societies in the world. “I think Australia is a great place. I think Australians are great people and decent people… There are issues in this nation and there is racism in this nation, anyone would be a fool to say there’s not. But there is racism and there’s problems in all nations. We are actually in Australia working towards resolving those issues.”

UN’s claims that NT intervention is overtly racist are widely condemned
Samantha Hawley
PM [ABC Radio]
August 28, 2009

High profile Aboriginal leader and former Labor Party president, Warren Mundine has joined a barrage of criticism over the UN backed claims that the Northern Territory intervention is overtly racist.

Mundine has thereby joined Jenny Macklin — Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs — and Shadow Minister The Mad Monk in condemning the (dirty rotten stinking Communist) Professor with the very foreign-sounding name of ‘James Anaya’ (see : Uppity blacks find support in traitorous United Nations, August 28, 2009).

Indeed, Mundine has stated that Anaya’s reportage should be regarded in the same manner as all reports produced by United Nations Special Rapporteurs: “I think this Rapporteur’s report should be dealt with the same as every other Rapporteur’s report; just drop it in the bin and actually get on with the job.”

Which is, on the whole, a rather bizarre comment to make.

Such a dismissal would include, of course, reports by Doudou Diene (the Special Rapporteur for Racism), Raquel Rolnik (Brazil), Maya Sahli (Algeria), Monorama Biswas (Bangladesh), Ralston Milton Nettleford (Jamaica), Linos-Alexandros Sicilianos (Greece), Mirjana Najcevska (The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) and several dozen more producers of complete and utter rubbish on such ridiculous topics as: the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context; the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography; the right to education; the question of human rights and extreme poverty; the right to food; and so on and so forth.

That said, while it may be the case that, given Mundine’s commitments to the ALP, his reaction is entirely predictable, it is also worth noting that unlike, say, Richard Downs, he is of the Bundjalung people of northern NSW, not the Northern Territory. Further — and perhaps this point is simply redundant — Mundine simply does not address, whether in general, or in detail, any of Anaya’s claims.

Finally, and in fairness to Mundine and his numerous other critics, Anaya has form. Thus, following clashes between Amazon Indians and police in Peru in June, Anaya called upon the Peruvian Government to drop criminal charges against protest leaders to foment dialogue. (On the complaints of ungrateful wretches in Peru, see : Peru’s ‘Cold War’ Against Indigenous Peoples, Kristina Aiello, North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), July 15, 2009.) For further information on Anaya, CAAMA (the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association) has an interview available for listening here.

“The Intervention” — its nature and functioning, if not its ostensible purposes — has obviously been the subject of heated debate. One of the more interesting dimensions of this debate has been its impact upon Mundine’s comrades in the Northern Territory. On this subject, see : EDITORIAL: Before you condemn…, National Indigenous Times, No.184, August 20, 2009. A new blog, Intervention walkoff, documents the decision by the Ampilatwatja community in Central Australia to remove themselves from ‘Prescribed Areas’.

Finally, a foreign corporation owned by US citizen (Sir) Rupert Murdoch publishes a zine called ‘The Australian’, and on Anaya its editor(s) opine ‘He came, he saw and missed the point’ (August 29, 2009).

At the head of everything is God, the Lord of Heaven.
Everyone knows that.
Then comes Prince Torlonia, lord of the earth.
Then come Prince Torlonia’s guards.
Then come Prince Torlonia’s guards’ dogs.
Then, nothing at all.
Then, nothing at all.
Then, nothing at all.
Then come the peasants. And that’s all.

~ Ignazio Silone, Fontamara (1931).

Bonus!

Below : Jesse XXXXXX from Deaths Head with the boys from Belgian neo-Nazi band ‘Kill Baby, Kill’ at the recording studio, Australia, September, 2008. (KBK played the Beaconsfield Hotel in 2008.) Jesse & Ravenous are proudly sponsored by YouTube, and will be appearing LIVE ON STAGE! in Melbourne on September 12. Joining Ravenous will be Old Skool boneheads Open Season, a cover band, and more than likely a bunch of foreign troublemakers. Note that former Ravenous drummer Joel now thumps the tub for the proud strong and honourable ‘Skin Heads Neither For Nor Against Racial Prejudice’ Melbourne band Bulldog Spirit.

Go Australia!


    “We encourage free speech and defend everyone’s right to express unpopular points of view. But we don’t permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation/gender identity, or their status as a returned soldier).”

For Dion, Jay, Doug, Phil, Ben, Joel and a cast of thousands hundreds scores dozens…

Added Bonus!

‘Who is Bennelong?’
Eve Vincent
Arena magazine
June–July 2007

‘Who was Bennelong?’ asks the Society named after him. ‘Bennelong the Man’, according to the Bennelong Society’s website, was ‘easily the most intelligent and helpful of the Aborigines that had come into Sydney Cove’. Governor Arthur Phillip’s kidnapping of Bennelong in late 1789 ‘may seem a strange way to begin a relationship’, but the two men grew close, and in the period between his capture and his 1792 trip to England — despite escaping once and subsequently engineering the spearing of the Governor — Bennelong delighted in affecting the habits and customs of the colonisers. He learnt English and was a valuable diplomat. In short: Bennelong walked in two worlds, and was decisive in convincing the Eora people to ‘come in’ to the settlement in 1790.

The view of the Society regarding the contemporary position of Aboriginal people is that ‘the most wretched Aborigines are those who are least integrated’. Hope lies in a process analogous to this ‘coming in’.

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