>>2511447>The commemorations came as Victoria Police investigated a graffiti attack on a billboard in Melbourne, which was daubed with a pro-Hamas slogan.Oh my god! A graffiti ATTACK!! This is horrible!
https://redantcollective.org/2025/10/20/an-account-of-the-police-riot-to-protect-fascists-in-melbourne-naarm/
>cops do everything they can to provoke a confrontation >anarchildren provoke them >cops bash the shit out of protestors in responseFucksake why can’t you retards be normal
>>2387213you americans are annoying as fuck.
>>2387202but then we can't be in Eurovision…
The organisers of the counter-protests, including pseudo-left groups such as Socialist Alternative, have sought to channel opposition back behind the Labor government and the official political establishment. The Sydney counter-protest was endorsed by both Young Labor and the Young Greens.
In reality, Labor is centrally responsible for the growth of the far-right. It is scapegoating immigrants and refugees for the housing and social crisis. And by inflicting social pain and the pro-business agenda it is creating the conditions for far-right forces to make an appeal.
Labor is also overseeing a far-reaching onslaught on basic democratic rights, centred on its attempts to criminalise mass opposition to the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and its own complicity.
The assault on the right to protest was on display in Melbourne. Police have accused some members of the counter-protest of initiating violent clashes. Footage posted to social media, however, shows Victoria Police officers indiscriminately deploying capsicum spray at crowds of retreating protesters. Police also used flashbang grenades and there are reports of at least one protester being shot with a rubber bullet.
After the rally, Victoria Police Commander Wayne Cheeseman gave a frothing press conference, denouncing purported “left-wing” violence. Prominent comments in the press, including the Melbourne Age have demanded the curtailment or abolition of the right to protest.
That underscores the point raised by WSWS and Socialist Equality Party campaigners at the counter-protests. We explained that the rise of the far-right, as well as growing authoritarianism by governments of all stripes, is the response of the ruling elite to mounting social and political opposition amid a breakdown of capitalism.
The fight against fascism requires the independent mobilisation of the working class, in opposition to the entire political establishment, including the Labor governments, based on a socialist program.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/21/rxbd-o21.html>>2529915the rank and file in labor are good kids. the caucus is fucked. there's no good party for people with serious political ambition so they land in young labor or some shit tier libtard NGO on the basis that Labor can form government, and lobbying is better than working for the greens.
It's up to saltyjordies to turn the Victorian Socialists (and their franchises) into a political force, but I'm concerned it's going to be another infighting ridden shitshow because he's a millenial and a trot, making him 4X as prone to self sabotage.
>>2532657One of these dudes interrupted our reading group and yapped about the platypus reading circle for like 10 minutes and left.
Also I think they're Trots.
Go on dole. That is what I am doing.
I worked for government for like 6 months and realised the government does not give a shit about how many people are abusing their services; it's mainly welfare fraud they care about which costs them millions and is in the hands of the very few.
In my country of Australia, there are more people on JobSeeker Payments than ever. But there is also absolutely nothing stopping a communist party from committing welfare fraud by putting in false applications in some fake person's name and collecting it from an ATM.
>>2532657That such a piece was published a year after the beginning of the genocide, with tens or even hundreds of thousands of Palestinians murdered, brands Platypus as a group that is supporting a 21st-century Holocaust as it takes place.
That has included a modern-day equivalent of Holocaust denial, with Platypus founder Chris Cutrone having ridiculed claims of a genocide in February, declaring it was “not at all clear” that ethnic cleansing was “the current Israeli intent.” Cutrone made those statements months after Israeli leaders had repeatedly declared their aim is to cleanse Gaza of Palestinians.
It is not only Palestinian resistance that is targeted by Platypus. In its October 7 anniversary piece, the group tars the masses of workers and young people who have opposed the atrocities, including in the US and the other imperialist centres, as dupes who are associating themselves with “antisemitism,” “reactionary Islamism,” “misogyny” and “fascist morality.”
That is a slander and a justification for the police-state crackdown that has been waged against opposition to the genocide, by the Biden administration in the US and affiliated imperialist governments internationally. It is a signal that Platypus will join with the incoming Trump administration in an even more frenzied attack on anti-war opposition.
The positions of Platypus are so openly pro-imperialist and right-wing, it is no exaggeration to say that they could have come from the US State Department itself or the Australian Labor government.
>>2532861unimelb is for rich cunts, and rich cunts from overseas. makes sense they'd make a faker socialist group than salt. they can't have an affiliation with any socialist party in australia because none of them are zionist.
there is one group they could be from: there used to be a zionist socialist youth group in melbs that did eco activism and learned about indigenous culture and went camping and stuff like that. real innocent, except they were founded by and dedicated to jabotinsky the butcher.
can't figure out what the name was because they've disappeared from the ZFA website but I'm pretty sure they disaffiliated 6 months into the genocide when they got a good look at naked zionism because they stopped updating their website. platypus might be a new chapter of the same movement.
>>2532898>can't figure out what the name was because they've disappeared from the ZFA websiteweb.archive.org?
https://7news.com.au/sport/afl/carlton-sack-club-mascot-after-walking-out-of-young-fans-bar-mitzvah-c-20434351>be carlton footy mascot>asked to do bar mitzvah>no worries>having a good one till you find out the event is an IDF fundraiser>walk the fuck out>wealthy club owners are attending the genocide bar mitzvah>they have a teary>get fired>get smeared as an anti-semitethis is gonna resonate with the trades. they fucked with footy. there is a massive opportunity to wedge by debating whether the club should donate to the IDF. really bad optics for the zionazis that forced the expulsion.
>>2535592Tradies are bourgeois.
>>2536058at this point I don't care how zionists become pariahs just that they do.
I don't know why people get so pissed about the Australian Frontier Wars. Sure, I might be willing to admit that certain elements of Queen Victoria's administration may have harboured slightly anti-indiginous sentiments that go far even for me, but that doesn't mean the various tribal groups can deny Australia's right to exist. These savages are so frequently attacking our settlers. I heard one say the other day that "From the Yarra River to the Tasman Sea Shall Be Free," which is obviously genocidal, as there are a ton of Australians in this area and they have no connection to any other nation. Where would they go? And I don't get why these Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, and Wathaurrungs get so pissed off. This is obviously not an equal fight. Aboriginals surround Australians in every direction. Why can't they just go live with these Jagera and Turrbal peoples in the desert? The northern savages don't seem to be helping the southern ones out enough, why is it always our responsibility? I read in the Herald Sun the other day that some Aboriginals scalped babies! Babies! You can condemn the land seizures but not scalping babies? These activists seem to be holding Queen Victoria to a standard they never held Pemulwuy to when he was slaughtering innocent Bendigo settlers. They must just want all the Australian people dead. Again, you may have certain issues with the Queen's administration, or even every monarch ever crowned, but this doesn't mean Australians have inherent problems (the Aboriginals certainly do, I haven't heard one condemn the latest scalping). You can criticise certain politicians, and I agree, I'm even a Labour voter, but you have no right to question our peoples right to exist. There is no other Australian nation in the world. Why do you want us, out of all other people, not to have self determination?(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
>>2536058Thanks, wsws. Retarded analysis as always.
>>2537078But this is clearly ironical?
>>2539499becuz ur not based for based one party labor system
>>2539499To be fair to Jordies most people don’t know how corrupt our cops and pollies actually are. If he was a mainstream journo his boss would have stopped him publishing the story that got him firebombed.
Maybe this will be he redemption arc.
>>2539516I *highly* doubt he'll change his views. He'll find some way to rationalise it and go back to sucking labor's dick without thinking twice - hell, I don't even think he'll make the connection that the system he's spent so long defending is the same one that tried to kill him, and the same one that's completely indifferent to his attempted murder. Who knows, maybe he thinks Labor money is worth risking his life for.
At best, his experience can serve as an example: the state doesn't give a fuck about you. If you get in the way of the affairs of the rich, no matter the evidence, no matter the crime, they will kill you. No matter who you are, no matter who you know. No matter how loyal you are to the state - even if you're Jordan Shanks - if you get in the way, they'll throw you aside without blinking.
>>2538395Shut up SAltie. We know what kind of sexual predators you harbour in your party.
>>2537078Retard mods why was user banned for this it's hilarious satire!
>>2539499Is there some new Jordies thing that's happened or are you talking about the shit from a few years ago?
Ok I have to do ask, are there comrades in the Doctors Union here? i'm seeing some very lefty imageboard coded shitposting in some union chats and want to see if anyone is here.
>>2539499>Why is he so fucking retardedIt's easy to internalize Labor mythology, when you compare the record of Labor vs LNP on policy nuances.
>>2551222Not me, comrade. Solidarity from another industry union.
Welcome to share the bants with us, redact it if needed. Imageboard culture leaks into the mainstream more each day so wouldn't be surprised if they were just discord.gov users or old meme-loving fucks.
>>2551483thanks comrade, solidarity to you as well.
I won't share but they were dropping "tankie" type meme videos and using terms like "glowie" and "fedposting". The background is a frustrated rank and file dealing with a conservative leadership - a tale as old as time.
>>2554110nine-fairfax malding as usual.
>>2554820I guess that explains why bukele is running a concentration camp.
>>2554110Yeah of course they want us to believe being aggressive to fascists is bad
Provocative take: NSN's Sydney photo-op going ahead was a good thing.
>cops publicly exposed as incompetent or compromised
>impatiently targeting Jews (strategic L)
>one has already been fired from an IT job, another 'under investigation' (less funding for the movement)
Obviously their majority aren't doing mask-off ops, especially those with higher-paying or sensitive government-contracted jobs. But attrition on their foot soldiers is real.
also laughing at one of them for this absolute statement:
>“You people want us unemployed, kicked out the street, want our family broken up and my newborn to starve,” he said. “All because I disagree with you politically. What you try to do to us personally is far worse than any of our general political ideology.”
SMH publishing this quote because they know no-one will take it seriously.
https://victoriansocialists.org.au/news/electoral-registration-updateThis is the saltiest thing I've read in a while.
>we cant register our favourite party name. can you, uh, stop existing please? just fold into us.It's perfectly fine to ask and explain, but the writing style of the statement is just petty.
>>2563778this is going to be like the 8th time the governments let the nazis run around for the sake of pushing through some anti-protestor law or precedent
Like they didn't even pretend to try to stop them this time
Unique IPs: 27