Locally renowned ugly mug Steve Jolly demonstrated his well-known and long history of violence against women by coward punching a sex worker in an unprovoked fit of rage when a group of proud, pissed-off prostitutes attended his post-election victory
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Anonymous submission from a group of antifascist networks in so-called 'melbourne':
"In the wake of the heinous & racist riots in the UK & the NSN feeling emboldened to attempt to normalise their presence in the streets of our cities, a solidarity action was held to say
BREAKING: 21 year old Laura has been sentenced to 3 months jail in Newcastle court after shutting down the loading facility at the Coal Port on Sunday.
After more than 30 arrests as part of a sustained Blockade Australia mobilisation, Laura is the first to be sentenced to jail.
We are taking a stand – not just against coal, not just against climate violence, but against the political and economic system which continues to dominate this stolen continent.
This rampant extraction must stop, #BlockadeAustralia!
The Vic “Pride” Centre represents institutions of assimilation that steal from us, demanding a bond of good behaviour in return for pittance. Pro-cop, anti-homeless, genocide ‘neutral’… What is there to be proud of?
Fuck visibility, fight with vengeance.
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the far right’s rise’. While this might make sense to (especially) members of the dominant, coloniser and wealthy group, it does not speak to the reality of those who suffer everyday terror under carceral and colonial systems.”
The essay How the Left Stopped Fascists From Organizing in Australia, Jacobin points at the electoral marginalisation of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party as an example of how ‘time and again, coalitions of anti-fascists, union militants, and community organizations have stymied