A-Infos (en) Anarchist Age Weekly Review No .543 21st April 27th April 2003

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NO GLOBALISATION WITHOUT DIRECT DEMOCRACY ­ ANARCHIST MEDIA INSTITUTE
"WE SWEAR BY THE SOUTHERN CROSS TO STAND TRULY BY EACH OTHER AND FIGHT TO
DEFEND OUR RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES" ­ EUREKA REBELLION OATH 1854

LEST WE FORGET
On Anzac Day Australians should spend a few moments remembering the
sacrifices made by men and women whose courageous stand possibly saved the
lives of tens of thousands of young Australians. Contrary to the myths that
continue to be propagated on Anzac Day, Australia was a divided nation
during World War 1. Wide divisions developed within the Australian community
within a few months of Australia entering the war. The Industrial Workers of
the World (I.W.W.), the forerunners of the modern Australian anarchist
movement, led the charge against what was seen by many Australians as a
trade war fought by workers at either end of a bayonet.

Within a few months of the war starting, the I.W.W.ıs call was taken up by
the Australian peace Alliance ­ a coalition of trade unionists, womenıs
groups, rank and file Labor Party members, socialists, Quakers and the
Catholic Church, led by Melbourneıs Archbishop Mannix. One of the more
prominent peace groups active against Australiaıs participation in the war
was the Australian Womenıs Peace Army. On the 21st of October 1916, a few
days before the first conscription referendum was held, the Womenıs Peace
Army organised a procession from its headquarters in Swanston Street
Melbourne to the Yarra Bank where a team of women speakers addressed a crowd
of eighty thousand people.

The defeat of the first conscription referendum was met with dismay by the
government. The Prime Minister at the time, Billy Hughes, fearing expulsion
from the Labor Party walked out forming a breakaway group, The National
Labor Party. Billy Hughes remained Prime Minister by forming a Coalition
with the Nationalists and Liberals. The new government turned its attention
on the most militant of the anti-conscriptionists banning the I.W.W.,
confiscating its property, and jailing and deporting its members.

As the slaughter on the European killing fields intensified and the
Australian casualty rate skyrocketed, the number of volunteers decreased to
a trickle. Faced with the problem of not being able to replace the tens of
thousands of killed and wounded Australians, the Hughes government called a
second conscription referendum on the eve of the Russian Revolution. One of
the more memorable slogans used by the pro-conscription stay at home patriot
was, "The Kaiser and the I.W.W. want you to vote NO; the Anzacs want you to
vote YES". Once again, the Australian people voted against the introduction
of conscription; the NO majority increased from 72,476 in 1916 to 166,588 in
1917.

Itıs no exaggeration to claim that if either of the two conscription
referendums succeeded, another 60,000 young Australians could have been
sacrificed on the European killing fields by the God, King and County
brigade. On the 25th of April 2003, itıs appropriate that a few moments be
set aside to reflect on the courageous stand taken by the anti-conscription
movement in WWI, the forgotten side of the Anzac coin.

DEFEND AND EXTEND MEDICARE
The Defend and Extend Medicare group has been formed as a consequence of the
Howard government's attempts to dismantle Medicare, the most important
social innovation in Australia since the introduction of social security
benefits. Over the past 28 years, universal bulk billing has provided all
Australians, irrespective of their income, access to basic health care.

Faced with almost universal support for Medicare, the Howard government has
attempted to undermine the system by making it uneconomical for General
Practitioners, the gatekeepers to the health care system in Australia, to
bulk bill. Since the Howard government won office, it has limited increases
in the Medicare rebate (the payment made directly to medical practitioners
who bulk bill) to much less than the inflation rate. As costs to run a
Medicare practice have outstripped the inflation rate more and more, general
practitioners have abandoned bulk billing for up-front fees.

The Howard government, supported by the Australian medical association, a
doctors group that only represents about fifty percent of medical
practitioners (which fought tooth and nail to stop the introduction of a
universal health care system in 1974), has introduced measures that mark the
beginning of the end of the universal health cover system in Australia. The
changes to Medicare will create the same two-tier system that Australians
who need access to hospital care and nursing home care currently face, when
they now have to access non-hospital primary health care. Those that have
the disposable funds will be able to buy the best health care money can
provide; the rest of the population will have to make do with a health care
system that cannot provide adequate health care because the Howard
government transfers billions of dollars of taxpayers funds every year to
bolster the private health care sector at the expense of the public health
care sector.

DEAD!!
The federal coalition has used the public disquiet surrounding the chairman
of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Geoff Clark, to
strip ATSIC of the power to control its own budget. ATSIC's role will soon
be reduced to only offering policy advice to the Indigenous Affairs
Minister, Philip Ruddock. Instead of waiting for its own review of ATSIC and
the courts to deal with allegations against the Chairman, Geoff Clark, and
the Deputy Chair, Sugar Ray Robinson, the coalition has decided to punish
all indigenous people by removing ATSIC's power to financially control its
own future.

Using the smokescreen of the separation of powers, the Federal government
has transferred financial decisions back to the indigenous affairs
bureaucracy, the very bureaucracy that has failed so dismally in the past to
deal with indigenous peoples' needs. The double standards that in large have
been accepted by the Australian community are hard to fathom. The removal of
the power of ATSIC to administer its own budget is akin to removing the
power of the Federal Parliament to determine the Australian budget because
allegations of a conflict of interest or possible corrupt behaviour have
been raised about parliament. Itıs unimaginable in such a situation that the
government's ability to control its financial future would be transferred to
the bureaucracy, and parliament's role would be reduced to one of offering
advice to the bureaucracy. In their haste to get rid of individuals in
ATSIC, some indigenous activists have welcomed the ministerıs decision, not
understanding the full implications of this decision. What has happened to
ATSIC is another example of the double standards that governments and many
Australians apply to indigenous organisations.

When allegations of corruption, conflict of interest, or criminal behaviour
are made against individuals within an indigenous organisation, the
organisation is blamed for the behaviour of the individual, and steps are
taken to strip the organisation of the power it holds. When the same sorts
of allegations are made about individuals within non-indigenous
organisations, the individuals, not the organisation normally carry the
blame. It's important that justice is done and is seen to be done, and the
same standards are applied to both indigenous and non-indigenous
organisations ­ the bar must not raised for organisations because they
represent the interests of indigenous Australians.

GRAVY TRAIN
Australian bank charges hit a staggering $7.8 billion in 2002, $800 million
more than 2001. Sensitive about increased consumer resistance and Reserve
Bank interest in the level of bank charges in Australia, the banks claim
that increased bank charges have been more than offset by a decrease in the
interest rate profit margins they charge borrowers.

The countryıs major banks find themselves in a situation where they can
charge whatever they like, promoting schemes that offer illusory savings to
their borrowers, while levying excessive charges on depositors, especially
small depositors. They are able to freely manipulate their charges to
extract the maximum amount of profit in a monopoly market where real
competition is almost non-existent. What's surprising is that what they are
doing is legal and accepted banking practice.

This unsatisfactory situation has occurred as a direct consequence of the
privatisation of the Commonwealth Bank. When the Hawke Labor government
privatised the Commonwealth Bank, they destroyed what little competition
existed in the banking sector. While the Commonwealth Bank remained in
public hands, it acted as a real competitor in the banking sector. The
Commonwealth Bank was established in 1919 to break the monopoly that private
banks had on the financial sector.

Its establishment allowed different criteria to be introduced to determine
who could access loans, margins set and banking fees charged. People who had
been denied access to banking services were now catered for. As the
Commonwealth Bank grew, it became a real competitor to the private banking
sector. What fees were set, margins charged and services introduced were
determined by the Commonwealth Bank's position in the market place. Any
private bank that attempted to maximise its profits at the customers'
expense found it lost customers to the Commonwealth Bank.

Today, no such competition exists. Although we theoretically have a
competitive banking sector, all banks need to maximise profits for their
major shareholders. Those that don't maximise returns have trouble raising
the necessary capital to function. In such a climate, competition runs
second in the race to maximise profits. Faced with the current monopoly and
the increasing dissatisfaction of customers with this monopoly, it's time
that governments, at both the State and Federal level, give serious
consideration to establishing new government-owned banks that provide
government guarantees for depositors funds and that break the monopoly
currently enjoyed by the private banking sector. Faced with the current
unsatisfactory situation, many depositors would transfer their business from
the private banks if they were provided with the opportunity to do so.

FROM ONE MILITARY
DICTATORSHIP TO ANOTHER
I can't help feeling sorry for the people of Iraq. It seems they have
swapped one military dictatorship for another. As each day goes by, itıs
becoming increasingly clear that the United States has no intention of
leaving Iraq anytime in the near future. Although the air is thick with
rhetoric about democracy, liberation and justice, the reality confronting
the people of Iraq is uncertain and daunting.

Under the old military dictatorship, those Iraqis who didnıt fall foul of
the Baıath party had access to the basic necessities of life, education and
health care. Secular as well as religious opponents of the Baıath party
either fled into exile, or remained in the country and became targets of an
authoritarian regime that did not shrink from using torture and summary
executions to implement its agenda. It seems that the US, faced with a
situation where religious zealots could seize the initiative and use the
current uncertainty and confusion to promote the replacement of the Saddam
Hussein regime with a religious fundamentalist State, is beginning to rely
on Saddam Hussein's police force, secret police and bureaucracy to counter
the fundamentalist push for power.

The US administration may soon find that it has bitten off more than it can
chew. The military capabilities that allowed it to win a conventional war
against a military dictatorship may not be the asset it believes it to be.
The Bush administration intends to use Iraq as its own personal fiefdom,
pillaging its resources to maintain its Military industrial complex. The US
military dictator that has just assumed office has the same powers as Saddam
Hussein had; he, like Saddam Hussein, maintains his authority through the
barrel of a gun.

The difference between the US military governor and Saddam Hussein is
minimal. Both are military dictators, one has been deposed, the other has
taken his place. The lucrative reconstruction contracts that are being
dished out to Bush's carpetbaggers will be paid for in full by the Iraqi
people through their oil supplies. The Iraqi people will also be expected to
pay through their oil revenue for the damage that was caused by the US led
coalition. It's difficult to see how the intervention of a US military
administration in Iraq will benefit the bulk of the Iraqi people. If US
intervention follows historical precedent, and I believe there are no
reasons why it wont, the Iraqi people have very little to look forward to.

ANARCHIST QUESTION AND ANSWER
Q.  What is a libertarian culture?
A.  Anarchists understand that all cultures simultaneously display both
libertarian and authoritarian elements.  Anarchists unlike most of the
worldıs major religious and political movements donıt want to create one
uniform culture that replaces existing cultures.  Religious conversion is
normally accompanied by the replacement of an individualıs cultural
practices by specific religious practices.
Anarchism is a political and social philosophy that supports and encourages
regional as well as national differences.  Anarchists encourage people to
keep and expand the freedom loving (libertarian) aspects of their culture
while rejecting those elements of their culture that concentrates power in
the hands of individuals and non-representative groups.  The development of
a libertarian culture does not rely on the wholesale rejection of the past.
Libertarian culture does not magically appear after people control their own
destiny.  It develops as people attempt to create the conditions that will
allow that new society in their hearts to become a reality.  The struggle to
reinforce the libertarian tendencies within different cultural milieus is a
constant ongoing struggle that is played out at both the individual and
group level.  Culture reflects the dominant values within different
societies, as societies change, cultural practices change.
Itıs no accident that freedom in the 21st century has been reduced to the
freedom to consume.  A freedom loving culture is not solely based on one
parameter.  A libertarian society encompasses choice not just in terms of
consumption, but choice in terms of what decisions we make, how we live, how
we interact with other people and our ability to control the resources to
make those choices a reality.  A libertarian culture incorporates past
cultural practices and creates new ones as the movement to create an
egalitarian community evolves and grows.

ACTION BOX
 JOIN US!!
Wednesday the 3rd of December 2003 marks the 149th anniversary of the Eureka
rebellion.  So what?  I hear you wearily groan "another day another dollar".
Next year marks the 150th anniversary celebration, so what? I hear you shout
once again.  There are certain moments in history that belongs to us, that
are so important we should not leave it to somebody else to define them for
us.  The Eureka rebellion occurred in Ballarat on Sunday the 3rd of December
1854.  At daybreak colonial mounted police and British troops overran the
Eureka stockade killing over 30 miners.
We need to reclaim the radical spirit of the Eureka rebellion, a spirit that
was based on direct democracy, direct action and solidarity.  The events
that occurred on the 3rd of December 1854 are as significant today as they
were 149 years ago.  Last year the Anarchist Media Institute reclaimed the
radical spirit of the Eureka rebellion, over 50 people joined in the
celebrations to mark the day.  This year an umbrella group the Reclaim The
Radical Spirit of the Eureka Rebellion organising group is organising the
celebrations at the Eureka site in Ballarat, Victoria.  Any group that
agrees with the sentiments expressed in the Eureka oath "We swear by the
Southern Cross to stand truly by each other and fight to defend our rights
and liberties" is welcome to join.
Currently the Anarchist Media Institute, Bayside Anarchist Group, Itıs Our
ABC, Libertarian Workers for a Self Managed Society, People Against
Repressive Legislation and the Greens House/Rosebud are members.  Itıs
important to remember that as the 150th anniversary celebrations gather
momentum, itıs probable that the celebrations will be taken over by the
Victorian State government, the Ballarat City Council and Ballarat business
interests, three groups that will sanitise this important event.
This year celebrations will begin at 4.00am on Wednesday the 3rd of December
at Eureka Park at the corner of Eureka and Stawell Streets Ballarat.  Bring
yourself, your family and friends, join us at the site from 4.00am to 4.00pm
and reclaim the radical spirit of the Eureka rebellion.  Itıs time the
celebrations to mark this event reflected the radical nature of the
rebellion and its significance to todayıs world.

AUSTRALIAN RADICAL HISTORY
ŒTHE TRIALı
A few weeks before the first referendum to introduce conscription in WWI was
held in October 1916, 12 members of the Industrial Workers of the World
(I.W.W.) were charged with conspiracy to commit arson, conspiracy to pervert
the course of justice and seditious conspiracy.  The pro-conscription lobby
headed by the Prime Minister Billy Hughes used the arrest of the I.W.W.
twelve to smear the anti-conscription movement.  The Sydney Mirror stated
before the trial was held "The I.W.W. is dominated by German money and
German influence".  The newspaper headline before the conscription
referendum was held screamed "The Kaiser and the I.W.W. want you to vote
ŒNOı, the Anzacs want you to vote ŒYESı ".
When the numbers went up on the 28th of October 1916, the ŒNOı case had won.
The trial of the I.W.W. twelve opened on the 20th of November 1916 before
Mr. Justice Pring in the full glare of media antagonism and hysteria.  Livid
at losing the conscription referendum, a vigorous campaign was waged in the
media to convince the public of the I.W.W.ıs guilt before the trial had even
started.  M. E. Lamb KC and Mr. D. G. Bathgate KC appeared for 6 of the
accused, Mr. J. Mack for 5 and one of the defendants J. B. King conducted
his own defence.
The trial took 10 days, the prosecution needed a week to present its case.
The only conclusive evidence came from 3 informers Scully, McAlister and
David Goldstein.  The defence barristers provided a legal defence to 11 of
the accused.  J. B. King appearing for himself provided an ideological
defence for himself and the I.W.W.  He stated "the I.W.W. existed not to
advocate crime but to remove the conditions which bred it ".
Justice Pring took 4 hours to sum up.  He warned the jury that they should
not find an accused guilty on the uncorroborated evidence of an accomplice.
In one case, that of Beatty one of the 12 I.W.W., he told the jury "I do not
say you must convict, but you ought not to convict " as the only evidence
presented against him was by the accomplice Scully.  On the charge of
seditious conspiracy, Mr. Justice Pring stated that one form of sedition was
"to promote ill will or hostility between different classes of His Majestyıs
subjects ­ and the I.W.W. went far beyond this limit ".
The jury returned in 5 hours.  They found Glynn, Hamilton, McPherson, Teen,
Beatty, Fagin and Grant guilty on all 3 counts.  Reeve, Larkin, Besant and
Moore were found guilty of conspiring to commit arson and seditious
conspiracy.  King the only member of the 12 who defended himself was found
guilty of seditious conspiracy.
Glynn, Hamilton, McPherson, Teen, Beatty, Fagin and Grant were sentenced to
15 years hard labour.  Reeve, Larkin, Besant and Moore were sentenced to 10
years hard labour and King to 5 years hard labour.
The trial of the I.W.W. twelve was a political trial.  The accused were
judged in the mass media before their trials even began.  The I.W.W. paid
the price for their uncompromising struggle to radically transform society.
Tom Glynnıs words spoken before Justice Pring handed down his sentence
"Politicians have been responsible for us being where we are today, but so
far as Iım concerned, I know that this verdict and the sentences that are to
follow will help the working class to understand, better than years of talk
would do, the ideas for which we fight " encapsulates the mood of the I.W.W.
at the end of 1916.
Source of material for article Sydney Burning (An Australian Political
Conspiracy), Ian Turner 1967, Alpha Books, National Library of Australia
Registry Number AUS 67-751.

 BOOK REVIEW
 "ABORIGINAL MISSION STATIONS
 IN VICTORIA"
 ŒYelta-Ebenezer-Ramahyuck-Lake Condahı ­ Aldo Massola, Hawthorn Press,
Melbourne 1970, ISBN 7256 00055
19th century Australian colonisers commonly used the pretext that one of the
main reasons they colonised the country was to Œciviliseı the Aborigines.
The Port Phillip Association headed by John Batman signed a Œtreatyı with
Melbourneıs indigenous tribes exchanging clothing and food for the land they
had stolen.  By January 1837, 18 months after the Port Phillip Association
established a settlement at Port Phillip Bay, around 700 Aborigines had
gravitated to the newly established European settlement.
The 1st mission station set up in Melbourne in January 1837 was set up by
the missionary John Langhorne on what is now Melbourneıs Botanical Gardens.
Interestingly the 1st school set up in Melbourne was set up for Aboriginal
children by Langhorne.  By March 1839 the Yarra Mission had come to an end.
The House of Commons in England disturbed about the atrocities that were
being committed against indigenous people in their colonies, set up a
Protectorate to protect indigenous populations.  The protectorate system in
Victoria was a dismal failure and was disbanded in 1849.  By 1851 the
Aboriginal population in Victoria had been Œdrastically reduced in numbers
by bullets, poison, starvation and diseaseı.  The churches stepped into the
void and set up mission stations to house, protect and convert the remnants
of the indigenous population.
Aldo Massolaıs book examines the story of the Yelta Mission station
established by the Church of England on the Murray River in 1855, Ebenezer
in 1859, Lake Tyers in Gippsland by the Church of England in 1861.
Ramahyuck in Gippsland was established by the Moravians in 1862 and
Fromlingham which was moved to Lake Condah in the Western District by the
Church of England in 1865.  The author does not look at the complete history
of Fromlingham Mission station which came under government control in 1867,
Lake Tyers which come under government control in 1908 nor Coronderrk a
non-mission station which was established near Healsville.
The story of the mission stations is a story of cultural destruction and
dispossession.  Itıs a story of a white population that had little if any
interest in the fate of Victoriaıs indigenous inhabitants.  Their survival
in spite of the racism, dispossession and cruelty endemic, in the
surrounding white society is a story that needs to be told over and over
again.  Aldo Massola in 1970 provided a glimpse of the indifference and
cruelty that indigenous Australians have had to overcome to survive and
prosper.  An example of the pettiness and cruelty that was legislated for by
the Victorian parliament is reflected in the decision made by the Victorian
Legislative Assembly in 1888 which "forbade the giving out of rations to
people of mixed blood under 34 years of age who must leave the stations and
earn their living amongst whites " ­ separating families and providing cheap
labour for surrounding white farmers.  Aboriginal Mission stations in
Victoria is replete with such examples.
I suggest you try your local library to get a copy of this book.  Itıs
important that in a period when the indigenous holocaust denial industry is
flourishing that Australians learn about the real history of this country.

PERSONAL OBSERVATION
Walking down the streets in Melbourneıs Chinatown trying to avoid eye
contact with people pedalling nirvana wrapped in aluminium foil, my flesh
crawled at the sounds behind me.  I hadnıt felt the same emotion since the
apartheid era.  I slowed down and listened carefully, the hair on my arms
stood on end, nothing I could do about it.  I was experiencing an
involuntary reaction to a situation that had more to do with ingrained
prejudices than reality.
The excesses and the brutality of the apartheid regime in South Africa were
to me inter-woven in the white South African accent, both Afrikaner and
English.  Every time I heard the accent my flesh crawled.  Unwittingly I was
committing the same sin as the founders of apartheid.  In their eyes, all
blacks could never be equal with whites.  In my mind everybody who spoke
with a white South African accent supported apartheid.  Although
intellectually I knew this statement was wrong, emotionally and
subconsciously I tarred everybody with the same brush.
I stopped suddenly, the couple behind me stopped suddenly, I listened, my
flesh crawled, their thick North American accents cut through the air.  I
automatically associated their voice with the worst excesses of the Bush
administration.  Maybe they were troops on rest and recreation leave, maybe
they were tourists, maybe they had lived here for decades.  I had no clue
about who they were, what they believed in, or whether they were still
American citizens, but my subconscious automatically assumed they were
potential mass murderers, well they had to be didnıt they, their North
American accent had given them away as warmongers.
Once more my emotions have overridden reality.  I have once again branded
somebody because of how they talk, not who they are.  Intellectually I know
itıs wrong, emotionally my body slips into "fright and flight" mode, my
flesh creeps and the hair on my arms stands on end.  Itıs important to
remember that the worst excesses in human history have occurred when we
conveniently lump people with the same characteristics in the same basket.
Ultimately we need to be judged as individuals, not as members of a Nation
State, a particular religion or a political system.  Classifying people into
particular groups because of external characteristics is the path that those
who have perpetrated political and cultural mass murder in the 20th century
have pursued.  The sooner we break down the stereotypes we have, the sooner
we can tear down barriers that divide us on the basis of religion,
nationality, language group, gender, gender orientation and class.

STOP PRESS
OUT THEY GO!!
Australiaıs Immigration Minister Phillip Ruddock is all smiles.  It seems
the wheels have been put in motion to deport the 4186 Iraqi asylum seekers
in Australia on temporary protection visas.  The first step to deport them
was put in motion when the Federal government agreed to extend the bounty
given to Afghan asylum seekers $2000 each or $10,000 for a family, to Iraqi
refugees if they return home voluntarily.
If they donıt want to return home, then the government is happy to implement
plan B, the forced deportation of Iraqi asylum seekers in detention camps
initially and eventually deporting those Iraqis on temporary protection
visas who donıt want to return to Iraq.  It is government and opposition
policy to only issue temporary protection visas to refugees who arrive in
Australia unannounced.  Even in the case of Iraqis fleeing Saddam Husseinıs
Iraq, refugees who bypass this countryıs normal immigration program will be
sent home to where they came from sooner or later.
The attempt to deport East Timorese refugees on temporary protection visas,
some of whom have been in Australia for over 10 years and have children born
in this country who know nothing about East Timor, is an indication of what
lengths this government will go to, to ensure that the only refugees that
obtain permanent status are those that are cherry picked by the Australian
government in overseas camps.  The tragedy of the Iraqi situation and the
situation of all other refugees on temporary protection visas is that a
significant number of Australians agree with the governments policy, seeing
nothing wrong with sending people who have put roots down in this country
back to their country of origin.
The treatment that has been meted out and continues to be meted out to
refugees in Australia, is a national disgrace.  Unfortunately the inhumanity
displayed by these decisions has done little to change the attitude that
most Australians continue to display towards refugees.  The celebrations
held by Iraqi refugees in Australia that marked the end of the Saddam
Hussein regime had a bitter sweet taste to them, as those Iraqis on
temporary protection visas knew they faced the prospect of being forced to
return to their war ravaged homeland in the very near future.
Joseph TOSCANO / Libertarian Workers
for a Self-Managed Society.

ANARCHIST PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED THIS WEEK
… LıHOMME LIBRE, Fils de la terre, No.175 APRIL/JUNE ı03, Recherche dıune
psychologie libertatrice, Marcel Renoulet, B.p. 205-42005, Saint-Etienne,
FRANCE
… LE MONDE LIBERTAIRE No.1315 10TH ­16TH  April ı03,  145 Rue Amelot, 75011
Paris, FRANCE, Tel:0148053408, Fax:0149299859
… LE LIBERTAIRE  No.235 APRIL 2003, Revue de synthese anarchiste, Boite
Postale 745, 76060  Leitavre Cedex FRANCE Tel:(0148414594),
www.le-libertaire.org, libertaire@normandnet.fr
OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED THIS WEEK
… ANMOHKA No.217 MARCH 2003, Anarhc Tyalcknx, Ahapixnctob, Tes.35-74-84,
MUXANA, RUSSIA
… THE VOLUNTARYIST, No.115 4th Qusrter 2002, P.O. BOX 275, GRAMLING, STH
CAROLINA 29348, UNITED STATES
… EASTERN SUBURBS TENANTS ­ Sydney 2002/03, Warren J.Buckland, Eastern
Suburbs Tenants ­ Sydney, P.O. BOX 100L, Lexington Place, Sth Maroubra,
SYDNEY 2035  AUSTRALIA

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ANARCHIST MEDIA INSTITUTE OBSCENITY OF THE WEEK
Has once again been awarded to the Prime Minister of Australia John Winston
Howard, core and non-core man for telling Australians that he would not be
deploying Australian Defence Personnel in Iraq as an occupation force
­ while leaving 1200 Defence Personnel in Iraq to support Iraqiıs occupation
by the coalition of the Œwillingı.

 RECLAIM THE RADICAL SPIRIT OF THE EUREKA REBELLION
JOIN US TO CELEBRATE
THE 149TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE EUREKA REBELLION
AT EUREKA PARK
Cnr Stawell & Eureka St, Ballarat / VICTORIA
 4AM TO 4PM
WEDNESDAY 3RD DECEMBER 2003
Donıt let the State & business turn the Eureka rebellion into a tourist
event that does not acknowledge the radical nature of the Eureka rebellion,
a rebellion that was based on 3 important principles that are as important
today as they were in 1854.
DIRECT DEMOCRACY ­ DIRECT ACTION ­ SOLIDARITY.
"We swear by the southern cross to stand truly by each other and fight to
defend our rights and liberties" ­ Eureka Oath 1854.

 MAYDAY SOLIDARITY CONFERENCE
ST.ALBANS MELBOURNE
THURSDAY 8TH MAY 2003
"Brian Mundy" ­ Mundy.Brian@bigpond.com.au

JOIN THE RECLAIM THE RADICAL SPIRIT
OF THE EUREKA REBELLION GROUP
AT
FEDERATION SQUARE, MELBOURNE
10.30AM
MONDAY THURSDAY 1ST MAY
& reclaim our open public space
FEDERATION SQUARE ­ THE PEOPLES SQUARE

184 MEMBERS ­ 366 TO GO
BEFORE WE CAN APPLY TO REGISTER AS A FEDERAL POLITICAL PARTY
Politically manipulated and scorned?  Sick of being a peripheral player
every time a Federal election comes around, then join:-  VOTE INFORMAL
TODAY, DIRECT DEMOCRACY TOMORROW - a "political party" that is putting the
boot into the Australian Parliamentary Process.  Send a stamp self-addressed
envelope to
VOTE INFORMAL TODAY DIRECT DEMOCRACY TOMORROW
PO Box 20, Parkville. 3052. Melbourne. Australia Telephone (03) 9828 2856
(24 hour answering service).  We will send information about how to join
this unique 21st century Australian phenomena.  DON'T PUT IT OFF  JOIN THE
PUSH FOR CHANGE NOW.
Written and authorised by Joseph Toscano
(National Convenor 205 Nicholson St Footscray 3012  Melbourne Aust.)
Current membership 184.  We need 550 members to apply for registration as a
political party, so that members can stand at the Federal election in 2004
and show Australianıs that Parliamentary Democracy is nothing more than two
minutes of illusory power.

STAMP APPEAL  - We spend over $500.00 on postage stamps per month.  If
youıre writing to us or have any spare stamps floating about stuff them into
the envelope & send them to us.  JOIN our $5.00 a month group & send us a
book of 10 50 cent stamps every month.

EMAIL MADNESS - Have access to cyberspace?  Want to help us save on printing
& postage costs?  Then why donıt you receive the AAWR by email?
INTERESTED??  Then email us at anarchistage@yahoo.com & arrange to have the
weekly emailed to you.


'Anarchy for Life' - The 3rd Annual Australian Anarchist conference
BRISBANE MAY 2ND ­ 4TH .
www.anarcon.cjb.net  or
 www.nomasters.org/Members/anarcon - (needs the capital letter).
ANARCHY FOR LIFE
ŒANARCHIST AND AUTONOMIST CONFERENCEı AT
VISIBLE INK
139 CONSANCE STREET
FORTITUDE VALLEY, BRISBANE
2ND ­ 4TH MAY 2003
COME TO BRISBANE
http://ronny.imess.net/anarcon
Billets, transport, workshops
http://www.nomasters.org/members/anacon
Organising List
http://lists.cat.org.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/anrcon
Mailing Lists
http://lists.cat.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/autonomous-brisbane
ENTRY BY DONATION ALL WELCOME


A SLICE OF AUSTRALIAN ANARCHIST HISTORY
We have a number of
AUSTRALIAN ANARCHIST CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS
"ANARCHY IS ORDER GOVERNMENT IS CHAOS"
"Melbourne Australia 1st ­ 4th May 1986"
BADGES
Which we are selling for $10.00 each (includes packaging and postage within
Australia).  Send 45c stamps or cheques or money or money orders for $10.00
made out to LIBERTARIAN WORKERS, P.O. BOX 20, PARKVILLE 3052, MELBOURNE,
AUSTRALIA, if youıd like one

ANARCHIST WORLD THIS WEEK
Broadcast across Australia on the National Community Radio Satellite.
The Anarchist World This Week is broadcast from 3CR (855khz AM dial) in
Melbourne between 10.00AM TO 11.OOAM every Wednesday.  It is also broadcast
simultaneously across Australia to a number of community radio stations,
some broadcast it live, others later on during the week.  Do you listen to a
community radio station?  Want to listen to the Anarchist World This Week?
Then ask them to download it from the National Community Radio Satellite,
play it live or play it later on in the week.


RECLAIM THE RADICAL SPIRIT OF THE EUREKA REBELLION
Celebrate on the 3rd December 2003
The 3rd December 2003 marks the 149th Anniversary of the Eureka rebellion.
This year a federation of groups will be celebrating the anniversary at
Ballarat and around Australia.  If you wish to keep up with whatıs happening
or belong to a group that wants to affiliate with the organisation write to
us at P.O. Box 20, PARKVILLE 3052, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA for details about
affiliation.
Current affiliate groups:  **  ANARCHIST MEDIA INSTITUTE
**  LIBERTARIAN WORKERS FOR A SELF MANAGED SOCIETY
**  BAYSIDE ANARCHIST GROUP
**  ITıS OUR ABC  **  PEOPLE AGAINST REPRESSIVE LEGISLATION
** PENINSULA GREEN HOUSE

If you want to join the mailing list in 2003 and keep up to date with whatıs

happening,
send us 10 ­ 50cent stamps


 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.
The articles in the Anarchist Age Weekly Review reflect the personal
opinions of the authors, they do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the
publishers, the Libertarian Workers for a Self-Managed Society/Anarchist
Media Institute.
All material in the Anarchist Age Weekly Review can be used by anarchists,
anarchist collectives and non-profit organisations as long as the source of
the material is mentioned in the article.  The Anarchist Age Weekly Review
reserves all rights as far as commercial publications are concerned.

ANARCHISM ­ ADVANCING IN DIVERSITY STRIKING IN UNISON ­ YAMAGUCHI KENJI
WELCOME TO THE 21ST CENTURY ­ THE ANARCHIST CENTURY






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