The capitalist media in Australia are full of news and opinion designed to create fear and suspicion of China and its so-called “communist” government. To advance this agenda, many real and alleged instances of bad behaviour by Beijing are cited. This is having the desired effect. Public opinion is shifting […]
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This article was first published as ‘The Plague’ in The Anvil, Vol. 9 No. 2, April 2020. The coronavirus pandemic started in a market in Wuhan late last year. It grew into a crisis through bureaucratic suppression of bad news by local “Communist” Party authorities. It has now become a […]
The following are a set of notes prepared for a talk presented at Students of Sustainability on 13 Jan 2020, originally titled “Anarchism 201: There is no parliamentary road to climate justice”. So far this summer, 27 people have been killed, 10 million hectares of bush, forest and national park […]
On 28 April this year, animal rights activists launched an impressive series of direct actions across eastern Australia as part of a campaign to promote the film ‘Dominion’. The resulting furor highlighted, once again, the confusion of ideas that exist at the intersections of anarchist and animal rights movements. The […]
This article re-published with permission. Originally published 13 December 2017 at Kieran’s Review. The front page of Sunday’s Herald Sun bore a message from on high for Victoria’s political caste, the Police Association have issued their ‘pre-election wish list’. There is an election next year, and support or opposition from […]
The government, police and media are pursuing a racist campaign of vilification and persecution against kids from Sudanese migrant backgrounds. The Herald Sun is today boasting that a Sudanese born “suspected member of the Apex gang” will be “forced to return to Africa next year”. The racists are crowing. Who […]
This article was originally published 10 October 2016 at Kieran’s Review. Republished here with permission. A small fascist group are trying to make their presence felt on the streets of Melbourne’s CBD, today they got a free-kick in The Age. Today’s Age reports that “a vigilante-style group is running ‘safety […]