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slackbastard Anarchy and apathy battle it out on @ndy’s blog. Home About Archives Comments / Contact Francis De Groot Brigade Musick Trot Guide ← Older posts Yeah Nah Pasaran! #206 w Dr Stephanie Wescott on Andrew Tate & misogyny in the classroom : May 9, 2024 Posted on May 7, 2024 by @ndy This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Dr Stephanie Wescott [ X/Twitter ]. Stephanie is a feminist researcher and lecturer in humanities and social sciences in the Faculty of Education’s School of Education, Culture and Society at Monash University and co-author (with Xuexen Hao and Steven Roberts) of Institutional responses to sexual harassment and misogyny towards women teachers from boys in Australian schools in the post-#metoo era ( Journal of Educational Administration and History ) and The problem of anti-feminist ‘manfluencer’ Andrew Tate in Australian schools: women teachers’ experiences of resurgent male supremacy ( Gender & Education , Vol. 36, No.2, 2024). We spoke to Stephanie about the impact Andrew Tate’s propaganda has had on Australian classrooms. See also : Andrew Tate and brother Tristan to be tried in Romania on rape and trafficking charges , BBC, April 27, 2024 | Andrew Tate’s ideology driving sexual harassment, sexism and misogyny in Australian classrooms , Norman Hermant and Ahmed Yussuf, ABC 7.30, April 2, 2024 | Can we talk about Tate? The ‘manosphere’ in Australian schools , Lyndal Rowlands, Al Jazeera, March 24, 2024 | The Tate race , Anna Krien, The Monthly, March 2024 | Raewyn Connell on Masculinities . 4.30pm, Thursday, May 9, 2024 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website • This episode will be available as a podcast on Apple , Spotify and other platforms after broadcast. • We also have a Facebook page for the show, which you’re invited to ‘Like’ and to ‘Follow’. • I have a Patreon account which youse are also invited to support. Posted in Anti-fascism , Media , Sex & Sexuality , State / Politics , Student movement , That’s Capitalism! | Tagged 3CR , Andrew Tate , Stephanie Wescott , Yeah Nah Pasaran | Leave a comment Yeah Nah Pasaran! #205 w Jordana Silverstein on history, Palestine, Zionism & more : May 2, 2024 Posted on May 1, 2024 by @ndy This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Jordana (Jordy) Silverstein [ X/Twitter ]. Jordy is an academic based in Melbourne/Naarm and the author of Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders (Monash University Publishing, 2023) and Anxious Histories: Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century (Bergahn Books, 2015). We spoke to Jordy about her writing, education, student protest, scholasticide, the war on Gaza, antisemitism, anti-Zionism, Jewish histories and more. See also : The evidence of emotions , Jordy Silverstein, Overland, April 4, 2024 | ‘Political arrest’ of Palestinian academic in Israel marks new civil liberties threat , Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum, The Guardian, April 26, 2024 | Jewish Council of Australia | Jewish Australians Are Rejecting the Zionist Establishment: An interview with Max Kaiser , Jacobin, April 27, 2024 /// We’re fighting to stop a genocide. Slanders against our movements are a distraction , Jewish Voice For Peace, April 25, 2024 /// We need an exodus from Zionism , Naomi Klein, The Guardian, April 24, 2024 | Scholars Against Genocide & Zionism vs. Anti-Zionism Ep. 1 w/ Shaul Magid & Zionism vs. Anti-Zionism Ep. 2 w/ Shaul Magid , The Dig Radio (April 19, 2024/December 7, 2023/December 15, 2023) | Free Voice of Labour: The Jewish Anarchists (1980). 4.30pm, Thursday, May 2, 2024 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website • This episode will be available as a podcast on Apple , Spotify and other platforms after broadcast. • We also have a Facebook page for the show, which you’re invited to ‘Like’ and to ‘Follow’. • I have a Patreon account which youse are also invited to support. Posted in Anti-fascism , Broken Windows , Death , History , Sex & Sexuality , State / Politics , Student movement , That’s Capitalism! , War on Terror | Tagged 3CR , Jordy Silverstein , Yeah Nah Pasaran | Leave a comment May Day in Melbourne : 2024 Posted on April 30, 2024 by @ndy I’ve periodically written about May Day over the years, on the last occasion in 2021 . In fact, I started blogging here on May Day in 2006 — 18 years ago! — and started my Patreon account on this date in 2019 . In Melbourne (Naarm), May Day’s been a largely desultory affair during this period — and for many decades previous — which I think is both unfortunate but also explicable. Who knows, maybe one (May) day things will change ? In any case, in 2024 I thought I’d once again cast my eye over whatever’s happening, and note the following: Melbourne community radio 3CR has a special workers’ radio broadcast on May Day, beginning with a marathon edition of Talkback With Attitude from 12 midnight to 7.30am, followed by dedicated episodes of Wednesday Breakfast , Stick Together , City Limits , Anarchist World This Week , Bunjil’s Fire , Kultural Kinetics , Lazy Wednesday Afternoon , Radical Australia , Uprise Radio and concluding at 7pm with a special episode dedicated to the Pilbara Strike, ‘the longest strike in Australian history lasting 3 years, starting on 1 May 1946 and ending in 1949’. Other May Day related events conducted under the auspices of VTHC include a wreath laying-ceremony and dinner on Thursday May 2, a rally and march on Sunday May 5, and guided tours of Trades Hall on Monday May 6 and Thursday May 9. Also in Sydney on May Day, CFMEU and MUA members — along with other unionists and activists — will be taking part in a walk-out, march and rally to protest a proposed ban on duck hunting for workers’ rights, wage justice and in solidarity with the Palestinian people. BONUS! historical note : The ACTU Institute artfully manages to provide an account of ‘The origins of May Day’ (April 27, 2022) without making mention of Haymarket, the Martyrs or anarchism. A more useful (and thorough) account is provided by Peter Linebaugh in The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day (PM Press/Spectre, 2016). By the same token, as Erica Lagalisse notes ( Occult Features of Anarchism: With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples , PM Press, 2019, pp.54–55): Over time, these symbols [the red star and the circle-A] have developed a new complement of meanings — many twenty-first-century anarchists don’t even know that the star used by communists, anarchists, and Zapatistas alike is the pagan pentagram. They are not reminded of the mathematical perfection of cosmogony when they behold it, or of Giordano Bruno’s geometric arts of memory, nor do they necessarily realize there is a genealogical link between the (neo)pagan May Day celebration and today’s anarchist May Day marches. Nowadays the May Day march is taken to commemorate the Haymarket massacre (1886), yet it is no coincidence that there was much upheaval in Chicago that day, because revolutionaries had been honouring May Day since before the time of the Illuminati, which was also founded on this symbolic day. In the nineteenth century, these symbolic associations were well known by those involved. Posted in Anarchism , History , State / Politics , That’s Capitalism! | Tagged May Day , May Day 2024 , Melbourne , Naarm | Leave a comment antifa notes (april 24, 2024) : right-wing extremism and inquiring minds Posted on April 24, 2024 by @ndy Following on from ex-blogger, proprietarian and 2016 Young Lolbertarian of the Year award-winner Senator James Paterson chairing an Inquiry into extremist movements and radicalism in Australia — born in December 2020, the Inquiry passed on, is no more, and ceased to be at the dissolution of the House of Representatives in April 2022 — a NEW! inquiry into Right wing extremist movements in Australia has entered into the discourse . Launched into Australian political airspace in December...