One must understand the environment we were dealing with, to begin with the majority of the work force were immigrants with little or no command of the English language who in turn were the lowest paid, working under the worst conditions you could ever imagine.

On the 18th of January 2025, an ‘Anarchist Communist Forum’ was held at Kathleen Syme library in inner city Melbourne. Anarchists hosted workshops on various topics; industrial struggle, imperialism, sexism and political organisation. Drawing well over a hundred people through the doors, the forum demonstrated a rebirth of anarchism in Australia.

The genesis of the ASF can be traced back to the founding of the 'Sydney Anarchist Group' in 1956 by anarchist exiles from Bulgaria, former members of the Bulgarian Section of the IWA, CNT-B along with others in Sydney sympathetic to anarchism. Two of those involved, Georg Hristov and Alex Boneff, would be founding members of the ASF in 1986. Members of the Sydney Anarchist Group distributed a leaflet at the 1959 May Day march organised by the NSW Trades and Labour Council called 'Anarcho-Syndicalism'. An official of the NSWTLC gave a copy of the leaflet to the NSW Police and told them there were 'anarchists among the crowd".

Many Kurds in Australia have family members who have been disappeared or displaced in the fighting. The protests have united Kurds from all the parts of Kurdistan, which was divided by Western colonial powers between Turkey, Iran, Iran and Syria after World War I.

“We call on the government and all Australians to show solidarity with Rojava and condemn these attacks”, Baran Sogut, a spokesperson for the Federation of Democratic Kurdish Society (Australia), said at a protest held outside the Parliament House in Canberra on January 17.

The Socialist Alliance stands in full solidarity with the Kurdish-led Rojava Revolution which is now under attack from the Syrian regime, with the backing of the United States and the European Union (EU).

The Kurds liberated North and East Syria from the former Bashar al-Assad dictatorship and then from the terror of the Islamic State (ISIS).

Now, it is fighting off genocidal attacks from the Western-backed Syrian regime of President Ahmed al-Sharaa — a former notorious Al Qaeda commander — and the Turkish armed forces and allied mercenary militias.

This is a battle for the survival of one of the few successful popular revolutions in the 21st century. This revolution sought to make women’s empowerment central to its political practice, as well as having a commitment to multi-ethnic and multi-religious inclusion in its grassroots democracy.

This war rapidly escalated from a campaign of atrocities and ethnic cleansing carried out against Kurds and Yezidi in Aleppo, Syria, earlier this year, even while Al-Sharaa was hosting senior EU and US delegations.

The US and the EU, which have whitewashed al-Sharaa’s international image and supplied his regime with funds for its armed forces, then pressured the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria/Rojava to withdraw from Aleppo and several other towns, in return for ceasefire agreements.

However, these have been broken over and over again by the al-Sharaa regime and the US, which brokered the agreements.

The world owes a massive moral debt to the Rojava freedom fighters, who have sacrificed tens of thousands of lives in the fight to defeat ISIS, empower women and promote religious and multi-ethnic unity.

Australia must end its silence on this war. It must call on the US and the EU to end their collusion with the Al-Sharaa regime against Rojava, demand an end to its war crimes and support action to bring the perpetrators to account.

The Socialist Alliance calls on the Australian government to send urgently-needed funds to the Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê/Kurdish Red Crescent, which is helping the thousands who are being wounded and displaced by this genocidal war.

We also call on all progressive and democratic people to join the global solidarity campaign to defend Rojava.

Food Not Bombs is a worldwide movement that cooks and distributes vegan food to anyone and everyone, without restriction.
‎ The Melbourne chapter of the organisation currently gathers leftover organic fruit and vegetables from Queen Victoria Market and conventional produce from Preston Market, gives some to worthy causes, then cooks up the rest and shares it on the streets of the inner city and northern suburbs.
‎ Everything that isn't collected for free is paid for by fundraising gigs, catering gigs, donations where people can afford them and even from the pockets of the volunteers themselves.
‎ Volunteers are always welcome! If you aren't able to volunteer, your donations of cash or things we could use are also welcome.
‎ Feel free to come out to any food sharing, or any cook up, or both! :)
‎ Cook ups and food sharing are as follows:
‎ Monday dinner
3.30-6pm: cooking at Collingwood Neighbourhood House.
5.30-6pm: Takeaway meals available at Collingwood Neighbourhood House, 253 Hoddle Street Collingwood.
Other meals taken to the Medically Supervised Safe Injecting Rooms in Lennox St Richmond North for clients only.
‎ Tuesday dinner: cooking around 4-7pm at Collingwood Neighbourhood House; From 7.15pm: communal meal in outdoor area on corner of Butler & Lennox St, Richmond.
Wednesday dinner: cooking 5-7pm and sharing from around 7pm at the same place: Catalyst Social Centre 144-146 Sydney Road Coburg.
‎ Sunday dinner (2nd and 4th Sunday of the month only):
cooking 5-7pm and sharing from around 7pm at the same place: Catalyst Social Centre 144-146 Sydney Road Coburg. Includes open mic event. Don't be shy!
‎ Any questions, queries please EMAIL: fnbmelb@riseup.net
‎ Read more at:
https://fnbmelb.noblogs.org/
www.facebook.com/groups/foodnotbombsmelbourne
https://www.instagram.com/foodnotbombs_naarm

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This list will be updated over time
Please feel free to share any A-NZ based groups, and I'll add them to the list.

Australia Wide
Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation (Currently Down)

Victoria:
MAC: Melbourne Anarchist Club
MACG: Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group
Anarchist Communist Federation – Geelong

Vic Other:
Renters & Housing Union
Food Not Bombs (More Active on FB/Insta)

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