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slackbastard
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mastodon 4.6.8I live in Melbourne/Naarm in Australia, was once described as a minor Internet celebrity, and otherwise try to survive and take notes as funny things keep happening on the way to the cemetery.
Also, you'll find links to stuff here:
https://linktr.ee/slackbastard
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If you haven't already done so, do yrselves a favour & listen to Jerry Stiller read John Sayles' 1979 satirical short story 'At The Anarchists' Convention'.
It starts at 30:34.
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/167623
‘Insanity’: Tiny town on Melbourne’s fringe revolts over ‘whites only’ plans
On the edge of Melbourne, in a quaint little town, locals are fuming over their newest resident — and specifically what’s happening on a compound hidden behind trees.
'Steel’s sister collected the family and drove them to her home 90 minutes away. Again, none of them knew surveillance officers employed by New Zealand police were tailing them.'
RIP Raoul Vaneigem.
Tomorrow on 'Yeah Nah Pasaran!' on 3CR, Cam & I talk to Ariel Bogle about 764 (and more).
4.30pm, Thurs, July 30, 2026 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio+ app, podcats 🐈
https://slackbastard.anarchobase.com?p=54456
Pour one anti-abortion placard out for Moira Deeming. 😢
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-28/mp-moira-deeming-resigns-liberal-party/106966506
Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism 'Jillian Segal claimed Gaza death toll is 'grossly inflated'. Here are the facts.
(Legal expert warns Segal could be in breach of Royal Commission Act over 'misleading' claims.)'
https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/jillian-segal-claimed-gaza-death
'QLD Teenager Arrested For Displaying Lack Of Social Cohesion.'
I'mma looking fwd to the day an anti-fascist metalhead produces a guide to navigating NS/BM & the grey zone in AUS metal.
14 neo-Nazis have been charged over the alleged assault by members of the (now dissolved) national Socialist Network on Camp Sovereignty following the March for White Australia in August last year. Today the former NSN lvl boss, Tom Sewell (who recently appeared on a vodcast with sepp0 neo-Nazi James Mason, the author of seminal neo-Nazi tract 'Siege'), 'formally pleaded not guilty to five charges relating to the incident, including violent disorder, affray and unlawful assault'.
Also facing charges:
Nathan Bull;
Timothy Holger Lutze;
Augustus Coolie Hartigan;
Ryan Williams;
Billy Michael Conheady;
Haymish Busscher;
Jake Crockett;
Zack Steven Dewaard;
Michael Nelson;
Michael Saarinen and;
Yan Zakharin
Two other neo-Nazis, Blake Cathcart & Jaeden Johnson, have already entered guilty pleas.
'Beyond the Dark Horizon' is an eco-anarchist zine published locally. No.4 dropped just recently.
https://beyondthedarkhorizon.org
Replying to
2/ 'Wealthy backers are helping Australia’s neo-Nazis plot their next move into politics from a secret multi-million dollar compound. We tracked it down - along with Thomas Sewell’s rich mates.'
https://archive.is/o8TUT
'On 22 July, 'Hero Warrior', an independent Local Peoples Defence Force (LPDF) based in Central Myanmar officially mandated ASF-IWA to conduct humanitarian fundraisers for 'Hero Warrior' food distribution program to displaced communities and healthcare infrastructure for the next 12 months.'
Donation link in article.
https://asf-iwa.org.au/asf-iwa-fundraiser-for-hero-warrior-lpdf
This Nazi Blabbermouth Went To The March For White Australia And All He Got Was A Twelve Months Jail Sentence.
On tomorrow's episode of YNP! we talk to Lucy Hamilton about Tone Abet and his ARC.
This week on 'Yeah Nah Pasaran!' we talk to Dr. Émile P. Torres.
May Day, Haymarket, and the Erasure of Anarchist History
'3CR Celebrates 50 years on air at Collingwood Town Hall on Saturday 4 July from 11am to 4pm.
Featuring delicious food from Black Peoples Union, Food not Bombs, Moroccan Soup Bar, ASRC Catering, tea and cake by donation, special live music performances by 3CR programmers and volunteers, and tunes from the Salaam Radio DJs.
There will be vibrant interactive stalls representing the diversity of our programs and their communities, including Radio FILEF, Freedom of Species, Green Left Radio, Done by Law, Hong Kongology, Anarchist World This Week, a sustainable living stall curated by Kill Your Lawn and Kick Your Fence, and more.
Our hugely popular Gardening Show will be on hand offering gardening advice, tips and tricks. Plus, they will be delivering a free seedling workshop! The Sporting Record will be showing off and playing their sporting records, and the YarraBUG show will be on hand for bicycle repair, so you can cycle down to the event and get a free mini tune up!
NIBS and the Published or Not team will be selling books, and various crafts from 3CR programmers and volunteers will be on offer. A special range of Limited Edition vintage 3CR posters and Celebrating 50 Years merch will be available for purchase on the day.
With the rich and diverse history of 3CR on display throughout the town hall, you can take a visual stroll down memory lane, with displays of artwork from past posters and publications, as well as photos of volunteers, guests and programmers past and present.'
Leftist_Trainspotters /// Melbourne "May Day"
Spotted:
3CR
AMWU
Anarchist Communist Federation
Anatolian Cultural Centre
ARC UP
BAYAN (Australia)
CFMEU
Communist Party of Australia
Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)
Communist Unity
Freedom Socialist Party
Frontline Socialist Party
Greek Democritus Workers League
KKE
LASNET
People's Liberation Front (JVP)
PPTEU
Radical Women
... plus?
From The Department of Stay At Home, You'll Only Get In The Way:
https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/a-list-of-state-laws-in-australia
'Neil, however, is a free animal who can only be minimally controlled due to his hefty size. The nature of his short-term visits also means he poses relatively little risk to humans.'
On this week's show we talk to Amanda Moore about a wonderful (they're saying it's the best ever) 250th birthday party.
I posted some notes.
I love the smell of social cohesion in the morning.
Watching this creep's testimony was quite something.
On tomorrow's episode of YNP! we talk to Tom T!
Brisbane artist contacted by police over works that allegedly violate new Queensland hate speech laws
On tomorrow's episode of YNP! (No 282), Cam & I have a yarn and play some muzak.
Regular scheduling will resume next week.
Property developer scion, March For White Australia promoter & sometime AmRen speaker Hugo 'auspill' Lennon booked a room in the same hotel as Modi, made a song & dance about it, & got told to shoosh by pol.
Later today, Modi's BJP fanbase in Melbourne/Naarm will be assembling at Marvel to celebrate The Man (& possibly the newly-hatched uranium deal). Mr Lennon & his stockbroker chum have organised an anti-migrant rally for later this afternoon, which is expected to be attended by their nazi chums & other white nationalists in protest. There's also been reference to an anti-Modi demo.
Funny (but also not).
What can you do but laff eh?
'It is a well-established fact that the universe has a sense of humour. It is less well-established, but increasingly obvious, that the humour is of the kind best enjoyed from a great distance, like, let’s say the moon.
Three weeks into the Iran war, reality has passed through the looking glass, out the other side, and is now selling tickets to the gift shop. What follows is not satire. Satire requires exaggeration, and you cannot exaggerate something that is already operating at maximum absurdity. This is simply the news, and nothing but the news. Told straight, in a universe that has clearly stopped taking its medication.'
“You almost don’t realize what’s happening until five years later,” Anna says, “when you look back and you’re like, Oh gosh, I was being used.” She also blames herself: “I was too frivolous with ideas.”
'The Women Leaving the New Right', Sam Adler-Bell, NY Mag, MAR 12, 2026 >>> https://archive.is/esbiC
Yeah Nah Pasaran #280 w Lucy Hamilton on Advancing Social Cohesion in The National Interest : February 26, 2026
'Behind the aesthetics lies a calculating policy team that knows its appetite for risk & stays on the right side of it. Damage to Iran & its network of allies isn’t a problem for the Trump administration. If it can’t achieve divide & rule immediately, divide & ruin will do for now.'
Tomorrow on YNP! on 3CR we talk to Cam Wilson ...
via Freedom Press
Killing of neo-Nazi in Lyon: “Antifascism is now being exploited”
News, Feb 23rd
The death of Quentin Deranque is being used as a pretext for equating fascism and antifascism
~ Rozenn Le Carboulec, Basta! ~
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/23/killing-of-neo-nazi-in-lyon
The Sordid History of State Collusion With the Far Right
Shane Burley
Jacobin
March 29, 2026
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/state-collusion-far-right-violence
In case you were wondering what the Australian government's position on the US war on Iran is, here's the PM:
'President Trump is someone whom I've enjoyed a constructive relationship with ... but I again reiterate that there is is no request being made to Australia that has not been agreed to ... I make the point as well that Australia wasn't consulted before this action was undertaken. And I respect that.'
To be fair to Comrade AbL0, I think this is a fairly accurate statement by him on 'this action' -- ie, the crime of aggression committed by the US when it launched its attack upon Iran -- along with the Australian state's decades-old role as US deputy sheriff in the Asia-Pacific region.
Tomorrow on 'Yeah Nah Pasaran!' on 3CR we talk to Jason Wilson about The Epstein Files.
Bad News for Knowledge Fight:
https://www.ms.now/opinion/alex-jones-infowars-maga-trump-sandy-hook
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Tomorrow on YNP! we talk to Leena about the ongoing legacy of GamerGate.
https://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=54572
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Given recent attacks on Camp Sovereignty & the fact that a little rich kid racist is assembling the troops agen this Sunday, it'd neat if lots of people attended this I reckon.
Rock Against Racism
2–8pm
Camp Sovereignty · Naarm
Free concert + delicious food