Posted on 08/31/2025 9:48:07 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A neo-Nazi was among speakers to address the crowd at a tense anti-immigration protest in Melbourne, as similar demonstrations under the banner March for Australia took place in state and territory capitals across the country on Sunday.
While the protests were condemned as hateful by the federal government, some politicians attended, including the One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, and party member Senator Malcolm Roberts in Canberra and the federal MP Bob Katter in Townsville.
The marches were promoted by neo-Nazis, as well as anti-lockdown figures who gained prominence during the pandemic, and other fringe groups but no group publicly claimed responsibility for organising the protests.
In Melbourne protesters gathered outside Flinders Street station with many carrying Australian flags, along with placards bearing anti-immigration slogans.
A counter-protest also assembled in front of the State Library of Victoria, with the weekly pro-Palestine rally merging with an antifascist counter-demonstration to protest against the March for Australia.
Victoria police blocked off Flinders and Swanston streets to the north of the intersection, in an apparent attempt to keep two rallies apart, but they eventually met at the corner of Collins and Elizabeth streets with a barrier of police between them, three rows deep, including officers on horseback.
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One would think the Labour party in the UK and its media supporters were watching the polls, all the while the UK under Labour is perhaps going to need an IMF bailout for its 'marvelous' management of its own national economy.
> The Guardian UK seems quit busy these days trying to equate “neo-Nazi” with “anti-immigration” views. <
I have respect for the British tabloids because they will often cover stories that everyone else would prefer to ignore.
One exception is ‘The Guardian’. They’ll put a far-left spin on any story, large or small. I’m actually surprised they haven’t yet blamed Stalin’s bloody purges on Climate Change.
I would respect them more if they changed their name to ‘The Communist’.
Regards,
Yup.
Years ago, in Berlin, I was chatting with a Berliner about the Nazi-Communist clashes before the Nazis actually came to power. I suggested that that wasn't much more than "who would govern," and that there was a darn fine alternative to Communism or National Socialism. The German SPD member with who I was chatting refused the notion that there was anything more than his "dualist" point of view. Europe's socialists and Communists and Fascists all seem quite alike, in the end or at least based on the end result as history has proved.
Besides, some of the mess in the UK is easily traced back to Clement Atlee, who still has his fans there. And of course old "Karl" is buried in Highgate with a mighty fine monument.
Mind, the Guardian , like BBC, considers anyone to be a NAzi if they don’t worship Mao. Or, Zelynskyy, for that matter.
Show me the swastikas in the march.
I was deliberately referencing the expression commonly used by leftists (and by conservatives mocking them).
Regards,
It figures the Guardian would portray these protests as a bunch of ignorant haters who are resisting their wonderful replacements.
The Guardian - what other type of headline would you expect!?
There was a neo-Nazi in the march? Well that’s it:
SCOTT OPEN THE BORDERS!!!
Clem Attlee, for all his faults, was fiercely anti-communist.
While we can fault him for his economic policies, he did not hate free speech, or Western Civilization.
Back then, it was possible to be a Socialist without being a Communist.
The Democratic Party in the U.S. is Communist.
If the Democrats were Socialist and they had a different philosophy on how to run things, we can get along with them.
But the Democrats believe that America should become an one party state.
I re-read the Wiki on him, which is quite extensive. Your "apologia" of him seems unusual, given your "free-market capitalism, tax cuts, and protecting your hard-earned cash from pick-pocketing liberal socialists."
Given Highgate-buried Marx' blather that socialism would lead logically into Communism, and given that Atlee faced "deteriorating relationship" with the USSR in a time of early nuclear proliferation, his stance seems quite "of its time" geopolitically. But he was a socialist and nationalization of industries was his and his party's stance. Quite akin to Germany's SPD, when one reads the founding documents.
"Western civilization" is an interesting theme, as it is within our civilization that socialists sculpted their themes which have so affected this world.
As to free speech, Britain under Labour today is moving quickly away from that. As are our Democrats and Democratic Socialists. What struck me in re-reading the Wiki was "He was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a world constitution."
I wager that is something we both would abhor.
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