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[Philip McCrory <philmcc@melbpc.org.au>]

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Number 297
27th April - 3rd May, 1998


IN A TIME OF UNIVERSAL DECEIT - TELLING THE TRUTH IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT
- GEORGE ORWELL


WIN THE WAR - LOSE THE PEACE?

The Maritime Union of Australia is on the verge of winning the war
against the Federal government and Patrick, but faces the possibility of
losing the peace.  Patrick's has used the Corporation Laws to circumvent
Reith's Industrial Relations Laws.  Even if the High Court orders the
reinstatement of Patrick's M.U.A. staff and even if they win the ongoing
conspiracy case, the chances are Patrick's will have tied up their
assets in such a way that no M.U.A. member will see a cent.

The current legal manouverings are an indictment of our society.
Australia's Corporations Laws are structured in such a way that any
employer can divest themselves of their staff and continue trading.  The
current Patrick's saga is nothing new, a number of transnational
corporations have structured their affairs in such a manner that they
are able to lay off staff and not even pay them back wages and
superannuation.  The Howard regime has aided and abetted business in
their endeavours to deny workers back pay.  The biggest loser in this
whole mess isn't the workers or the Federal government.  The biggest
loser is the state.  People are waking up to the reality

that the courts and the state are not there to protect their interests,
but are there to protect the interests of the corporate sector.

The current legal morass reinforces many Australians disillusionment
with both the legal and the political sector.  Even if the M.U.A. and
the Trade Union Movement win this struggle in the courts, M.U.A. members
run the very real risk of finding themselves without a job and without
compensation for their immoral and possible illegal sackings.

That's why it's still important that the pickets are maintained against
every Patrick's operation within this country.  No containers should be
allowed to leave any Patrick's dock until M.U.A. members return back to
their old jobs.  Anything less than this minimum demand is a defeat for
the M.U.A. and a victory for Patrick and the Howard regime.  Maintain
the rage, maintain the pickets until Patrick's and their little mates,
the National Farmer's Federation are forced off the wharves.

ROGER GYLES Q.C. - SCUDS HIS UNDIES!!

One of the sublime moments of Patrick's appeal to the High Court
occurred on Monday when Chief Justice Brennan peered over the dock  and
asked Patrick's silk Mr Roger Gyles Q.C. whether he realised "If the
damages consist of the lost earnings of the entire workforce for the
rest of their working lives, one must wonder about the sufficiency of
the defence assets."

When Roger Gyles answered that Patrick's had no factored such a
consequence into his appeal to the High Court, you could almost
visualise a brown puddle forming round the honourable Q.C.'s
immaculately polished shoes.

FULL BENCH BACKS DOWN!!

The full bench of the Victorian Supreme Court admitted on Tuesday that
Justice Beach had over stepped the mark when he placed an injunction on
just about anybody who cared to wander down to Swanson Dock in
Melbourne.  Before we start cheering the Supreme Courts decision, let's
not forget that the Supreme Court had no other choice but to rescind
Justice Beach's decision.

Thousands of protesters had ignored the Supreme Court injunction and had
continued to picket at Swanson Dock.  The Victorian Police had no
interest in enforcing Beach's injunction.  The authority of the
Victorian Supreme Court lay in tatters.  A few thousand activists were
able to show that the Victorian Supreme Court was a paper tiger.  If we
want to congratulate anybody we should congratulate ourselves.  The
action of those picketers at Swanson Dock who ignored the Supreme Court
injunction, not the arguments of the legal eagles, was the main factor
which caused the Supreme Court to restrict Beach's injunction to M.U.A.
members.  They realised they had as much hope as a snow flake in hell of
having Justice Beach's injunction enforced.  In a bid to save face and
reassert the Victorian Supreme Court's authority, the full bench of the
Victorian Supreme Court backed down.

KENNETT AND STOCKDALE INFECTED WITH REITH'S DISEASE

Jeffrey Glib Kennett, the Victorian Premier and Alan Stockdale, the
Victorian Treasurer, seem to have caught a potentially fatal case of
Reith's disease.  Peter Reith, the Federal Minister for industrial
warfare has over the past few weeks experienced many of the signs and
symptoms of chronic confabulation, a fatal disease that seems to
exclusively infect parliamentarians.

Kennett and Stockdale seem to have acquired their infection about five
years ago when "secret" bids for Victoria's Casino were sent to them in
the final weeks of the Casino tendering process.  They have harboured
this dangerous organism for the past five years, fortunately for them
they had not experienced any overt signs or symptoms of Reith's disease
until Tuesday.  On Tuesday the public became aware of their terrible
secret.  Jeff and Alan are in denial and refuse to acknowledge that
they  have acquired a sever case of chronic confabulation.  Let's hope
that Jeff and Alan overcome the denial stage and accept their problem.
If they don't they run a very real risk of succumbing to this post
modern parliamentary scourge.

FRIDAY THE 15th May, 1998 - D DAY

Two weeks ago, when in the pages of the Anarchist Age Weekly Review and
on the Anarchist World this Week, I earmarked Friday the 15th May as the
day the New York Stock Exchange would lose over 30% of its value, people
laughed.  Two weeks later the New York Stock Exchange is beginning to
experience a few peripheral tremors and a few so-called financial
experts are predicting the beginning of the end of the current New York
Stock Exchange Bull Run.

Examining all the key financial indicators I still think that the
largest stock market crash since 1929 will occur on the 15th May, 1998.
It's uncanny how the factors that were responsible for the 1929 crash
once again loom large on the horizon.

PEOPLE POWER - SOUTH AUSTRALIAN STYLE

John Olsen, the Premier of South Australia, wakes up dreading what fun
and games the day will bring.  During last years election Olsen, almost
lost the unlosable election.  A highlight of last years election
campaign was the participation of the Save the Croydon Park Primary
School group in the campaign.  They followed the Premier throughout the
election campaign, upstaging his carefully planned public forays.
Although they did not succeed in stopping the closure of the Croydon
Park Primary School, their campaign became etched in the public
consciousness.

Even though it will be a few more years before Olsen has to face the
electors, another protest group has taken the sacred Olympic flame from
the Croydon Park Primary School protest group.  You see, Premier Olsen
is a very slow learner.  He has personally just pushed legislation
through the South Australian parliament that will see a boat harbour
built on one of Adelaide's more popular beaches, Westbeach.  The local
citizenry seems to be less than impressed by the government's plans to
turn over a popular public swimming and recreation space to the private
sector.

The Westbeach protest group have promised to embark on a campaign of
protest that will make the Croydon Park Primary School protest seem like
a picnic lunch.  Protesters have vowed to target John Olsen personally.
Every time he steps out into the public arena they have promised to be
there.  Their vocal presence will remind the Premier that his government
cannot override local objections to development without a fight.  Even
in the unlikely event the boat harbour is built, John Oslen will not be
able to appear in public in South Australia without hearing the public
objections and seeing the protests of the Westbeach community group.

MAY DAY-THE AUSTRALIAN CONNECTION

In 1884, the 1st of May 1886 had been chosen as the day the Federation
of Organised Trade and Labour Unions of the United States and Canada had
earmarked "as the date from and after which eight hours shall constitute
a legal days labour".  On the 1st May 1886, Australia's first anarchist
organisation was formed - The Melbourne Anarchist Club.

>From 1887 to 1889 the 1st May was remembered and celebrated in Australia
only by anarchists associated with the Melbourne Anarchist Club.  In
1890 May Day celebrations were held in the office of Dr. Maloney MP in
Melbourne, Chummy Fleming, a well known Melbourne anarchist, attended
these celebrations.  Demonstrations and celebrations were held in
Ipswich and Barcoldine on the 1st May 1891 during the Shearers Strike,
over 1,000 men took part in the Barcoldine march, 600 mounted on
horseback.

Melbourne held its first public May Day celebration on the 1st of May
1892.  The celebration on the Yarra Bank was proceeded by a march which
began at the Burke and Wills monument.  The meeting at the Yarra Bank
was chaired by the principal organisers of the March, the anarchist
Chummy Fleming.  May Day was celebrated in Australia from 1892 to 1899.
It was not celebrated in Melbourne and the rest of Australia from 1900
to 1927.

When May Day celebrations were recommenced in 1928, Chummy Fleming the
Melbourne anarchist, although not part of the official organising
committee led the May Day March in Melbourne until his death in the mid
1950's.  He normally started marching 30 minutes before the official
march and waited for the main march to catch up with him.

May Day in Victoria is still not celebrated on the 1st of May.  A march
organised by the Trade Union Movement is held on the 1st Sunday after
the 1st of May.  Melbourne Anarchists have been celebrating May Day on
the 1st of May for over a decade.  In 1986 hundreds marched through the
streets of Melbourne on the 1st of May to celebrate the centenary of
Australian Anarchism.  This year Melbourne Anarchists will be gathering
at the Melbourne G.P.O. on Friday the 1st of May to mark the 112th
anniversary of the Australian Anarchist Movement and the 112th
anniversary of May Day.

ANZAC DAY - THE MYTH EXPOSED

On Anzac Day, Australia's thoughts turn to those Australians who died in
war this century.  As Australia's participation in these conflicts is
remembered, not one tear will be shed for a group of Australians who
were responsible for saving thousands of, if not tens of thousands of,
Australian lives.

Contrary to the picture that will be presented on Anzac Day, Australia
was a divided nation in World War I.  The outbreak of war in 1914 was
met by jingoistic government-induced hysteria.  Thousands volunteered to
fight for King and country.

One group of Australians, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the
forerunners of the modern Australian Anarchist Movement, opposed the war
from the very beginning.  In their opinion, World War I was an
imperialistic war that was being fought "by workers on both ends of a
bayonet".

As the body count increased and the Australian Government had trouble in
enticing men to enlist, they attempted to introduce conscription.  IWW
members were at the forefront of the anti-conscription struggle and
helped to defeat the government's conscription referendums in late 1916
and late 1917.

For their trouble, the government banned the IWW, seized their property,
banned them from working in the Public Service and jailed hundreds of
IWW activists.

More than 60,000 young Australians died in World War I.  If the
anti-conscription struggle had failed, it's no exaggeration to say that
another 60,000 young Australians would have been sacrificed on the
killing fields of Europe.

Today, a moment should be spared to remember how the IWW and the
anti-conscription movement helped to save the lives of thousands of
young Australians.

ANARCHIST QUESTION AND ANSWER

Q.  Do anarchists reject struggles that advocate reforms?

A. Of course not, most anarchists participate in struggles that advocate
reforms.  The difference between anarchist participation in reform
struggles and the participation of most other political groups is that
anarchists openly participate in the reform movement as anarchists and
they have no interest in capturing the movement for their own ends.  Too
many reform orientated movements end up as empty shells.

The participants in these movements have been driven out and alienated
by authoritarian political groups that enter these movements, take them
over, strangle any independent thinking and eventually destroying the
movement.

Anarchists are interested in creating and protecting space that improves
peoples lives and increases their opportunity to openly organise and
articulate their ideas.  The idea that is sometimes bandied about that
increased repression breeds egalitarian social change is a myth.  An
anarchist movement that is driven underground has little if any chance
of growing.  Any movement that increases people's freedom to organise,
to articulate their ideas and which helps them obtain a bigger share of
the cake, is welcomed by most anarchist activists.

As anarchists we participate in reform movements for two main reasons,
to support a movement that increases people's potential and to try to
keep the movement in the hands of the people involved in it, not in the
hands of people who are using the reform movement for their own ends.
Anarchist participation in a reform movement can be the very backbone it
needs to ensure that the movement demands are not diluted and that the
reform movement keeps its initial momentum.

Although the struggle for reform may not lead directly to Rome, it does
help people and the anarchists involved in it take the first few steps
on the road to Rome.

ACTION BOX -

ANARCHIST MUTUAL AID

Anarchist Mutual Aid is a practical, realistic attempt by a small group
of anarchists who live in Victoria, to organise a fund which they
control to assist members of the group who find themselves in personal
or financial difficulty.  The principle of Mutual Aid is a central tenet
of anarchist thinking.  Currently the group has eight financial
members.  Anarchist Mutual Aid needs twenty financial members to ensure
its long term viability and survival.

Individuals within a capitalist society are at the mercy of the dog eat
dog mentality of that society.  While they are young, fit and healthy
and have access to work, they survive.  When they become older, or fall
ill or have an accident, unless they have access to a private income,
most people experience difficulty surviving.  Although we have a social
security system in Australia, anybody who has to rely on the state for
their long term survival can find it very difficult to cope.

The Anarchist Mutual Aid group is pooling funds together to set up
structures and facilities that will assist group members and that will
benefit the wider anarchist community.  The group is currently in the
process of organising its principles of association and meets
regularly.  Membership is open to individuals who are sympathetic to
egalitarian ideas.

The initial joining fee is two hundred dollars, this can be paid as a
lump sum or in twenty ten dollars weekly instalments.  Once you have
paid your joining fee, the ongoing cost is ten dollars per week.  The
group meets on a regular basis, all decisions are made by the group at
these meetings.  Anarchist Mutual Aid needs twelve new members to ensure
its long term viability and survival.  If you live in Victoria and are
sick and tired of relying on the state or the private sector to ensure
your long term security and would like to become a member of a group
with egalitarian aims that is interested in looking after its members
and help the growth of the anarchist movement then contact:-

Ray Dimitroff/Secretary, Anarchist Mutual Aid, P.O. Box 280, Upper
Ferntree Gully,   3156, Melbourne. Australia
Email helpaul@netlink.com.au

If you live outside Victoria and want to become involved or set up an
Anarchist Mutual Aid group then contact Ray Dimitroff, the secretary for
information and advice on how to set up such a group.  It's not
difficult, if we can do it anybody can do it.

AUSTRALIAN ANARCHIST HISTORY

FRANCESCO CARMAGNOLA

Francesco Carmagnola was born on the 25 May, 1900 at San Vito di
Leguzzano in Italy.  He arrived in Australia on the 13 May, 1922, a
political refugee who had been forced to flee Mussolini's brave new
world.  He went to work in the canefields at Ingham, North Queensland,
in 1922, moved to Griffith in New South Wales in 1925 and co-founded the
Lega Antifascista in Sydney in 1926 with Giovanni Antico.  In July 1927
he printed the first Italian anti-Fascist newspaper in Australia, Il
Risveglio.

The third issue of the newspaper printed after the execution of Sacco
and Vanzetti in the United States which had the heading "Long Live
Anarchy By The Anarchists they will be avenged!!", so alarmed the
Australian government they banned the newspaper on the 23 August, 1927.
Carmagnola moved to Melbourne, in December 1927.  He and other
anarchists opened the Matteotti Club, an anarchist social and
anti-fascist centre that survived till 1933.  Carmagnola and the other
anarchists in the Matteotti Club began publishing a new anarchist
newspaper, La Riscossa, in January 1929.  La Riscossa was the mouthpiece
of Italian anarchism in Australia from January 1929 to November 1932
when the newspaper folded.  At its high point, 3,000 copies of the
newspaper were distributed fortnightly.  On May Day 1931, Carmagnola
addressed 7,000 workers on the banks of the Yarra and incited the crowd
to cry out "Death to Mussolini".

In October, 1931 after a falling out with some other anarchists in the
Matteotti Club, he moved back to Ingham Queensland.  Carmagnola and the
other North Queensland Italian anarchists were very concerned about the
social and economic needs of Italian immigrants in North Queensland.  On
the 26 December, 1931, Carmagnola and two other anarchists assaulted the
Italian Vice Consul in Townsville, Mario Melano.  The trial of
Carmagnola and M. Tardiani took place at the Townsville Supreme Court on
the 11th and 12th February 1932.  Carmagnola used the occasion to launch
a blistering attack against Mussolini and the Italian state.

Acting Justice A.B. MacGregor recommended that the accused by convicted,
Carmagnola and Tardiani were found not guilty by a jury composed of
sympathetic waterside workers.

Between 1932 to 1935, the Italian anarchists in North Queensland were a
thorn in the side of the local police.  Disputes, strikes and
demonstrations accompanied every cane cutting season.  On the 4 August,
1935, Italian cane cutters went on strike demanding the cane be burnt
before it was cut, to avoid Weil's disease, a severe infection cane
cutters contracted when they cut green cane.  The local police inspector
in North Queensland estimated there were over two hundred active Italian
anarchists on the canefields at that time.  By September, the cane
cutters had won their struggle and all sugar cane was burnt before it
was cut.

At the end of 1935, Carmagnola, a marked man, unable to find employment
on the canefields, returned to Sydney.  In 1938 he moved back to
Melbourne and distributed anti-fascist literature on Italian ships in
the harbour.  On the 15 February, 1938 he was assaulted by Italian
sailors on the cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli while distributing
anti-fascist leaflets.  Two days later 10,000 protesters massed at Port
Melbourne wharfs to voice their disgust at his assault.  Carmagnola
continued his activities against Italian Fascism.  On the 27 July, 1940
he was arrested at the Sydney Domain because he was carrying a large
cardboard poster with the inscription "All Italians are not Fascists" to
protest against internment of Italian anarchists in Australian by the
Australian government.

Source of material for article.  Fascism and Italian Anarchists in
Australia by Gianfranco Cresciani first published in Australian
Quarterly March 1979, Reprinted 1995 Barricade Publishing, P.O. Box 199,
East Brunswick, 3057, Melbourne, Australia.

HELP - I have little information about what happened to Carmagnola after
WWII.  The only information I have to hand is that he was interviewed by
Gianfranci Cresciani in 1974 and 1978 in Sydney.  If he is still alive,
he would be 98.  If anybody has any information about his eventual fate,
could they ring me on (03) 9828 2856, or write to me, Joseph Toscano,
P.O. Box 20, Parkville 3052, Melbourne, Australia.  Thank you.

BOOK REVIEW
THE RUSSIAN TRAGEDY
by Alexander Berkman
First Published Berlin 1922.  This edition Phoenix Press, London 1986.
0948984-00-7

Alexander Berkman was born in Russian in 1870, he emigrated to the
United States at the age of 18 and immersed himself in the Anarchist
Movement in the United States.  In 1882 he attempted to assassinate
Frick, an American industrialist and spend the next 14 years in prison.
He was released in 1906, recommenced his anarchist activities was jailed
for two years in 1917 for opposing the United States involvement in
WWI.  Although he had lived in the United States for over 30 years, at
the age of 50 he was deported to Russia, arriving on 19th January, 1920,
just two years after the October 1917 revolution.

The Russian Tragedy, a short 90 page booklet which first appeared as
three separate pamphlets in Berlin in 1922, provides an important
eyewitness account by an anarchist who felt his entry into Russia on the
19th January 1920 "was the most sublime day of my life" to the man who
slipped out of Russia two years later, barely escaping with is life who
states "Against my will, against my hopes, against the holy fire of
admiration and enthusiasm for Russia which burned within me, I was
convinced - convinced that the Russian Revolution had been done to
death".

Berkman's account of what happened in Russia during the Russian
Revolution is a poignant, incisive and concise analysis of how the
imposition by the Bolsheviks of Marxism's central tenet to bring the
means of production, distribution and exchange under a central
government (the dictatorship of the proletariat) destroyed the Russian
Revolution, a revolution where the peasants and workers had taken charge
of their own lives and were running the economic activity of Russia
through elected councils which they called Soviets, was brutally and
violently replaced by the centralised Bolshevik state.

Alexander Berkman had exceptional opportunities for observation and
study, he stood close to the Bolshevik leaders, associated with the most
active men and women, participated in their work and travelled
throughout Russia extensively, seeing first hand how the social
revolution was being systematically undermined and actively throttled by
the Bolsheviks (a group let by Lenin), who destroyed the free Soviets,
seized the state apparatus and imposed a bankrupt ideology Marxism on a
people who had tasted and held freedom.

Although the Russian Tragedy was written in 1922, it is as relevant
today as it was over 75 years ago.  The lessons that are drawn from this
illuminating booklet are as important today as they were then.
Berkman's blow by blow exposure of the practical failures of Marxism and
the failures of revolutionary ideologies that want to seize not abolish
state power, is a salient reminder of the failures of Marxism to those
activists and anarchists who still believe that Marxist ideology and
Marxist activists have anything to contribute to the struggle for human
freedom.

Alexander Berkman committed suicide in 1936 at the age of 66 on the eve
of the Spanish Revolution, his body racked with pain from a number of
serious health problems.

Review copy of the Russian Tragedy kindly supplied by Barricade Books,
115 Sydney Road, Brunswick, 3056, Melbourne Australia.  Call in or write
to them and ask them for their 1998 Book Catalogue.

PERSONAL OBSERVATION

A grey looking man, face ashen, waved us down.  Two, four, six, eight,
twenty, thirty cars waited for him to change his mind.  A small cluster
of people gathered round what looked like a monument to the motor car, a
crushed twisted wreck.  This was one of those moments when private
cocoons are pierced by an overwhelming public reality.  No ambulances,
no sirens, just a small cluster of people fifty meters away, worshipping
a pile of crushed metal, next to a stationary semi-trailer.

I bounced out of my car, locked it (I've been caught before) and walked
towards the monument.  Crushed car, door ripped off, blood, young woman,
laced up ankle high black shoes, sitting, head twisted, eyes closed,
pregnant belly, eight months, two lives, not one.  I knelt on broken
glass, felt her pulse, eighty beats per minute, weak, steady, her belly
heaved.  I asked her where it hurt, she squeezed my hand and hissed
between short sharp breaths "my neck, my shoulders, I'm pregnant!"  The
cluster had put a respectful distance between themselves and us, they
could see I knew what I was doing, they kept their distance and
watched.  "It's all right, don't move, the ambulance will be here soon",
I mumbled.

We waited, my index and forefinger on her pulse, blood trickled from
embedded glass in her left arm.  Aids, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, -
gloves back in the car, we waited.  No moans, no groans, no tears, no
self pity, just a pregnant woman, tummy bulging, blood trickling down
her left arm, head twisted.  "Don't move, it's all right, the ambulance
is coming".  Pulse increasing, colour draining from her face, possible
internal bleeding, still conscious, still breathing, two lives, not one.

Sirens closer, ambulance men here, bags open.  "Blood pressure 90/60,
pulse 90, tummy bulging, painful neck, "Don't move, it's all right".
More ambulances.  Collar out, collar on, spine board out, I got off my
knees, brushed my pants, left it to the experts.  Spine board applied,
they gently pulled her out, placed her on a stretcher, long legs, taut
belly, black laced up shoes, no tears, no moaning, just fear.

What were they doing here?  Fire trucks, hoses, ready, that's when I
smelt the petrol.  Long legs, two lives, taut belly, black laced up
shoes, in the ambulance, off to hospital.  I crawled back into my
private cocoon, ten minutes late for my next appointment

STOP PRESS! -

VICTORIAN POLICE TO STRIKE?

Four thousand Victorian Police Officers out of a force of 12,000 voted
at a mass meeting on Sunday to impose work bans on the 4 May if the
Kennett regime does not grant them an 11% across the board pay rise.
The Victorian Police Association twelve month campaign to secure a wage
rise for the police force has fizzled.  In the face of widespread rank
and file dissatisfaction, the Police Association has decided to raise
the stakes in their current wage dispute.

Victorian police have voted not to carry out non-urgent duties or attend
demonstrations from the 4th May if the government does not meet their
demands.  The Victorian Police Commissioner, Neil Comrie, has threatened
to stand down and not pay staff who refuse to carry out their duties.
In response, the Victorian Police Association has threatened to escalate
the dispute and call a strike if members are stood down by the Victorian
Police Commissioner.

Interestingly, the last time the Victorian Police Force went out on
strike in 1924, the government swore in "special constables" and the
strike was broken.  No police officer who went out on strike was
re-employed as a police officer.  Talking to police on duty at Swanson
Dock and Coode Road at the waterfront in Melbourne, I was surprised to
find out that none of the police had any knowledge of the eventual fate
of their colleagues who went out on strike.  I made the most of the
situation to sow a little disquiet in their ranks.

Listening to the rhetoric that came out of the mass meeting it's more
than obvious that the Police Association does not have the full support
of many of its members.  A significant proportion will not go out on
strike if push comes to shove.  The Victorian government knows that the
Police Association does not have the full support of its members and may
be willing to try to out blink the Police Association.  Irrespective of
whether the dispute is averted or not, the damage has been done.  Many
police officers have developed more than a grudging respect for workers
who are involved in disputes with their employers.  This dispute has
brought home to many rank and file police that they are just workers.
They now understand that the methods that they have used against workers
to try to crush their  workplace campaigns can be turned around and used
against them.

JOSEPH TOSCANO (Libertarian Workers for a Self-Managed Society).


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News From Nowhere On Perth's Community Radio Station - RTR FM is now on
the Net
That Means You Can Listen To It - Anywhere In The World.  News from
Nowhere can be herd 9.00 - 10.00 am every Monday, Perth Time 11.00 am -
Noon, Eastern Standard Time Every Monday.  If you are on the internet
and want to listen to an Anarchist Radio Programme that features
political commentary, comedy and satire, it can be found at
rtrfm.ii.net  Tune in and give them some feedback.

ANARRES BOOKS - 1998 BOOK CATALOGUE, Write to them for a copy A.B. PO
Box 150 East Brunswick 3057, Melbourne Australia.

JURA BOOKS RE-OPENS AT NEW PREMISES - Celebration
6.30 pm Friday 1st May, 5.30 pm Sunday 3rd May at 440 Parramatta Road,
Petersham Sydney Australia. Tel Sydney 9550 9931 for more information.
Entry Free.

WAR ON THE WHARFIES WEB PAGE -
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ANARCHIST MEDIA INSTITUTE OBSCENITY OF THE WEEK
Has been won by Patrick's one and only Chris Corrigan, may he sow the
financial rewards he deserves - bankruptcy.

If You Like What You Have Read, Photocopy This Publication and Leave It
In Doctors, Dentists, Vets Waiting Rooms and In Railway Stations, Bus
Stops, Libraries and Restaurants Etc.

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opinions of The Libertarian Workers for a Self-Managed Society/Anarchist
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