So for context, Anarchism is practically dead in Australia. Even at it's lowest point in the USA it was more alive than at any point here in the last 20 years. The people posting stuff like this are entirely online.
The biggest socialist orgs in Australia are mainly Trotskyists, with the major ML parties being the ACP and the CPA. I know a few other organisations that I'm not even sure are anarchist, but they're tiny.
In my experience (and age range), socialists here usually come about through things like SAlt or the CPA and I never could identify any distinct anarchist formation. So my guess is that Australian anarchists mostly come about to their ideology through the internet, like I had a few years back lol
As it was told to me, most anarchists were kind of consumed by the Greens in the 90s. Despite the party trying to purge leftists, they never really reclaimed their own identity and have remained sort of hidden in the enviromentalist movement. The last anarchist I talked to wasn't part of the Greens, but was still just trying to organize Extinction Rebellion protests.
Those aren't the only anarchists though obviously, but I really couldn't tell you what the others are doing.
Yeah I considered mentioning the IWW, but the only one I've actually talked to was a weird Young Labor guy who was definitely not an anarchist.
There's also an anarchist group that some fascist attempted to bomb a few years back in Melbourne. I don't know much about them, but if they pissed some nazi cunt off enough to try that then they must be doing something right.
So for context, Anarchism is practically dead in Australia. Even at it's lowest point in the USA it was more alive than at any point here in the last 20 years. The people posting stuff like this are entirely online.
The biggest socialist orgs in Australia are mainly Trotskyists, with the major ML parties being the ACP and the CPA. I know a few other organisations that I'm not even sure are anarchist, but they're tiny.
In my experience (and age range), socialists here usually come about through things like SAlt or the CPA and I never could identify any distinct anarchist formation. So my guess is that Australian anarchists mostly come about to their ideology through the internet, like I had a few years back lol
As it was told to me, most anarchists were kind of consumed by the Greens in the 90s. Despite the party trying to purge leftists, they never really reclaimed their own identity and have remained sort of hidden in the enviromentalist movement. The last anarchist I talked to wasn't part of the Greens, but was still just trying to organize Extinction Rebellion protests.
Those aren't the only anarchists though obviously, but I really couldn't tell you what the others are doing.
I know a fair few, spread around the IWW and there's a group in brisbane that has a lot of em too
Yeah I considered mentioning the IWW, but the only one I've actually talked to was a weird Young Labor guy who was definitely not an anarchist.
There's also an anarchist group that some fascist attempted to bomb a few years back in Melbourne. I don't know much about them, but if they pissed some nazi cunt off enough to try that then they must be doing something right.
That was MAC, these days it's a drama thing or something.