anarcha adventures

What’s wrong with Australia’s youth that they won’t join unions?

Education and generation Perhaps its education. Us young’uns have been forced into uni by well-meaning working class parents with a dream of success. We believe that our own hard work will pay off - landing us in a cushy job far away from the lifestyle we were born into. We believe we will “do better than our parents did”.

Yeah right. How many woking class kids actually do make it by going through uni? How many are left at the end with a profound understanding of Focault, not enough marketable skills and a HECS debt the size of a barn? At 23, we graduate to the cold-coffee reality that we’re actually competing against those 16 year old ‘loser’ school leavers for low-paid, low-security jobs. But we dream of the big time.

We dream and believe, no doubt spurred on by the fantasies of grandparents that any lack of success is brought of our own laziness and not systemic bias against the working class. We conveniently forget the feeling of fate that our parents have about work - born into an industry, die in an industry. The spectre of casual employment and re-skilling for a new career every 10 years can seem like novelty compared with 40 years in a coal pit. It might look glossy from the outside, but the choices are just as limited. (more…)

So Sparky Mark Latham thinks that Bomber Beazley shouldn’t be leader of the Labor Party… well duh.

Bomber’s only realy asset is that he’s so fat he hides the other weasels and wankers who’d be better off in a retirement home than in politcs. The only sad thing about Latham’s political analysis here is that he genuinely believes he’s saying something that the rest of us don’t know yet.

No wonder the Labor Party is fucked!

Should anarchists use violence against the state? Some things to consider:

1. Actual outcomes that can be achieved through violence
2. The repercussions of violence: violence begets violence
3. Portrayal in the media, and winning ‘the laity‘ to our cause

I don’t believe that Douglas Wood was ever kidnapped.

Have a look at Douglas Wood on bbc news

Consider:

1. He was held by his captors on a ransom which was never met (neither financially nor politically). Yet for 6 weeks after the ransom deadline, and after weeks of silence, he is reclaimed and totally unharmed.
2. He has not appearded to have lost any weight during his weeks in captivity.
3. He has not appeared to develop any major bruising from being physically abused or beaten.
4. He hasn’t developed bad posture or slumping from sitting tied up for extended periods.
5. He does not appear to be malnourished. He doesn’t have sallow skin, or other malnutrition-related deficiencies. If he were really about to be executed, would his captors spend any effort ensuring that he was eating meat and vege?
6. He appears to be psychologically healthy despite being threatened with immanent execution for weeks. Compare to Patty Hearst who was in capitivity under arguably similar conditions for 2 months before she became psychologically destabilised.
7. He describes his captors simplys as “assholes”. Given the video showing him without a blindfold, its probable he could give some more detailed description had there been anything genuine to describe.
8. HE SAID HE WOULD CONSIDER GOING BACK TO IRAQ FOR BUSINESS
9. Our herioc PM John Howard has already demonstrated that he will lie to the Australian people and use the SAS to do it. He doesn’t seem to care what cost, but only the political gains he can make.

There’s something very fishy about the political ransom that was initially demanded and lapsed. And then that nothing was heard about him for weeks. That no-one ‘gave in to terrorist demands’ but he was miraculously rescued anyway by the herioc american army is highly suspicious. Douglas Wood, the impossible escapee is the perfect propaganda coup for American and Australian imperialism. He;’s too perfect, so perfect he has to be a fake.

Count the fingers! Count the toes! He wasn’t kidnapped, So where did he go?