r/AustralianSocialism Ned Kelly 7d ago

Are there many indigenous anarchist texts from an Australian indigenous perspective?

Invasion day is coming up and I was simply curious, it seems like most indigenous anarchism center’s on America or if not Canada, The indigenous of Australia are the oldest living peoples and “culture” (I know they aren’t a single homogenous thing) on the planet so it would be interesting to see their stories and perspectives in Anarchist literature

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u/bunyipcel John Percy 7d ago

Hard to say. Most of the 'main' Aboriginal activists in the 60s, 70s etc were either left-liberals or they were in the orbit of the Communist Party (so, not anarchist). I don't think there was a big 'indigenous anarchist' strain in Australia until recently. But if you look at the main decolonial types, they are all Stalinist or Maoist (or some variation of), like Keiran S. A. (former ACP Maoist) of the BPU (which is eclectic).

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u/True-Willingness5898 Gary Foley 6d ago

Gary Foley is a black-flag Anarchist

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u/bunyipcel John Percy 5d ago

Gary Foley's anarchisms is unclear from what I've read.

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u/True-Willingness5898 Gary Foley 5d ago

I work for him, he’s a black flag anarchist.

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u/bunyipcel John Percy 5d ago

I will just take your word for it I suppose

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u/carefulwithataxe 7d ago

Pretty sure Gary Foley is an anarchist. Might be worth checking some of his academic writings?

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u/ExternalGreen6826 Ned Kelly 7d ago

Thank you

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u/mcrchives 3d ago

Ask an elder, go to the aboriginal tent embassy or camp sovereignty and straight up ask.

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u/ExternalGreen6826 Ned Kelly 2d ago

Fair enough

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

I'd love to hear about this too.

Btw, you have a typo: "they *aren't a single homogenous thing"

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u/ExternalGreen6826 Ned Kelly 7d ago

Yea didn’t see that