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Anarchist International Radio and TV - AIRTV
NEWS FROM AIRTV:
CONTENTS:
A. INTRODUCTION
B. SEE AND LISTEN TO THE FABS - THE FEDERALIST ANARCHIST BEAT SOCIETY - THE VIDEO "MONTER" WITH THE FABS - A PROG-PUNK AND ANARCHO-PUNK BAND! AND MORE!
C. VIDEO WITH THE SOCIAL-INDIVIDUALIST ANARCHIST JULIAN ASSANGE - WIKILEAKS AND MORE
D. MORE ONLINE RADIO AND TV - UNDER CONSTRUCTION
A. INTRODUCTION
AIRTV presents sound and video including pictures, interesting in anarchist & libertarian connection and such links to click on, and also relevant texts. The website is under construction.
However AIRTV already can present, in Chapter B., in full length:
a) an interview called historic by the National Library in Norway (Nasjonalbiblioteket) with the
'The Wizard of @@z'. (@@z = Ås in Norwegian, a place of Æsene (plural of Ås, i.e. a hero/god) the old Nordic heroes/gods, and also the name of the Norwegian commune where FABS had the base from 1964-1985), i.e. an interview with Timian Sabatini, primus motor of the FABS, the Federalist Anarchist Beat Society, about the punk-movement and the anarchist connection, made by Scandinavia's main punk-radio (online and FM) Aggresso (in Norwegian) from 2008, and
b) the FABS - The Federalist Anarchist Beat Society's punk single "Punk Out" a.k.a. "The pro anarchy and anti-ochlarchy anthem" from 2009,
c) The FABS cosmic single "Emma Amelia's Tune/Emma Amelias Trudelutt" from 2011 from "Tellus, Anarchy vs Ochlarchy, Cosmos, Magic and Love -
A Science Fiction Story".
and
d) picture of FABS and links to short parts to listen to free of other FABS records and their main albums so far (and download), say, at Amazon.com, as well as
e) text with the FABS' 'official' code for interpretation of their partly surrealistic lyrics, videos and pictures, loaded with relevant libertarian etc. symbols.
f) Folkebladet's editor - Harald Fagerhus on video declares: "We want more ANARCHY now!"
g) Pictures of information secretaries of the Anarchist International Information Service, AIIS, and more about the AIIS, etc.
In Chapter C. AIRTV presents a link to an interesting video with an interview with WikiLeaks' main spokesperson Julian Assange, and text indicating his social-individualist anarchist tendency, and more!
In Chapter D. AIRTV presents a link to an interesting video about the ANARCHIST IDEAL - the top of the anarchist Economic-Political Map and more.
Frontkjemperne i den libertære kulturkampen. The frontline fighters in the libertarian cultural struggle:
FABS - The Federalist Anarchist Beat Society - The Fan Club - With links - playlists - to their 5 main albums on YOUTUBE
FABS - Det Føderalistiske Anarkistiske Beat Sambandet - Homepage - English and Norwegian texts, With links - playlists - to their 5 main albums on YOUTUBE and more.
This document also contains links to FABS' favorite music performed by other bands.
Translation tool Norwegian to English, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Chinese etc., and vice versa: Google Translate.
Siste nyheter om og fra FABS! Nytt album i 2023: "The Wizards of @@z"! FABS favoritter fra andre band.
FABS' MAIN ALBUMS AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE.
Eventyret om Strandnissen. Filmen/videoen "Monter". Og mere...
FABS er for reelt, inklusive grønt - demokrati! = Liberalt sosial-demokrati = ANARKI!
GREEN GAIA MUSIC FROM THE FABS - THE FEDERALIST ANARCHIST BEAT SOCIETY - WITH PLAYLISTS TO FIVE ALBUMS AT YOU-TUBE. GREEN GREETINGS FROM JENS HERMUNDSTAD ØSTMOE ALIAS TIMIAN SABATINI, PRIMUS MOTOR OF FABS! CALL +47 92 44 28 22 FOR AN INTERVIEW! CLICK ON: http://www.anarchy.no/fabs.html TO LISTEN TO FABS GREEN GAIA MUSIC!
«J. H. Østmoe driver også med å lage malerier, plakater og musikk, i tilknytning til progpunk-bandet FABS, hvor han er primus motor.
Han bruker aliaset Timian Sabatini i denne forbindelse. En av plakatene er utstilt på Nasjonalmuseet;
(https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/samlingen/produsent/192630/jens-hermundstad-ostmoe)»
THE FIRST ROCK-STARS
Torstein Hvattum, mangeårig journalist i Aftenposten, i boken Åsfolk, slår fast at Jens Hermundstad Østmoe alias Timian Sabatini er like god på gitaren som Jimi Hendrix. På hele side 58 ble FABS omtalt under overskriften "De første rockestjernene" ["The first rock-stars"], med mye skryt om FABS. En kan merke seg konklusjonen nederst på omtalen, altså forfattet av Thorstein Hvattum: "Historien om Fabs slutter ikke her, den var bare såvidt begynt. Men for meg vil magien rundt bandet alltid tilhøre seksti tallet. Årene da Jens Østmo behandlet den røde plankegitaren like tøft og teknisk avansert som Jimi Hendrix." Vår uthevning. Det får en si var et godt skussmål og hederlig omtale av Jens Hermundstad Østmoe alias Timian Sabatini. Folkeblad-redaksjonen med ansvarlig redaktør Ph.D. cand. oecon. polit. libertar. Harald Fagerhus i spissen slutter seg enstemmig til at Jens Hermundstad Østmoe alias Timian Sabatini er like god på gitaren som Jimi Hendrix. Og vi mener han synger og komponerer bedre.
Torstein Hvattum, a long-time journalist in Aftenposten, in the book Åsfolk, states that Jens Hermundstad Østmoe alias Timian Sabatini is as good on the guitar as Jimi Hendrix. On the entire page 58, FABS was mentioned under the heading "The first rock-stars", with much praise for FABS. One can note the conclusion at the bottom of the review, written by Thorstein Hvattum: "The story of Fabs does not end here, it had only just begun. But for me the magic around the band will always belong to the sixties. The years when Jens Østmo treated the red plank guitar as tough and technically advanced as Jimi Hendrix." Our emphasis. It can be said that it was a good certificate and an honorable mention of Jens Hermundstad Østmoe alias Timian Sabatini. The Folkebladet editorial team with editor-in-chief Ph.D. cand. oecon. polit. libertar. Harald Fagerhus as the frontman unanimously agrees that Jens Hermundstad Østmoe alias Timian Sabatini is as good on the guitar as Jimi Hendrix. And we think he sings and composes better.
B. SEE AND LISTEN TO THE FABS - THE FEDERALIST ANARCHIST BEAT SOCIETY -
THE VIDEO "MONTER" WITH THE FABS - A PROG-PUNK & ANARCHO-PUNK BAND! AND MORE! -
I. THE COLLECTION ALBUM: "1967-2008", THE FABS BOOK AND THE VIDEO "MONTER"
II. MORE ABOUT THE VIDEO AND UNDERGROUND MOVIE "MONTER"
III. THE ALBUM "BALLAD OF EXTERAZY GRAX" 1979
IV. FABS LIVE CONCERT IN OSLO 2008, THE SINGLE "PUNK OUT" AND THE ALBUM "PUNK OUT FOR FANS ONLY" 2009
V. NEW ALBUM IN 2011 "ANARKI I NORGE - ANARCHY IN NORWAY"- AVAILABLE AT YOUTUBE
VI. THE ALBUM "SOUNDTRACK FROM MONTER - ANARCHIST CRITICISM OF NORWAY 1968" 2010
VII. SURREALISM AND FABS
VIII. FABS AND EXPERIMENTAL ANARCHISTIC NEW MUSIC
IX. FABS' LIBERTARIAN MUSIC - AN INSPIRATION FOR ANARCHIST ACTION - DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL
X. FABS' MUSIC HAS A DEEPER ANARCHIST MEANING - 'SHE' IS 'GAIA' - MOTHER EARTH, ETC.
XI. THE ALBUMS ON CD - MEMBERSHIP IN FABS FANCLUB - CONTACT THE 'FABS HUB' - AND MORE
XII. LISTEN TO FABS ON INTERNET ONLINE SHOPS DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL AND ANARCHIST ACTION
XIII. FABS' MAIN ALBUMS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM
XIV. FABS' MAIN ALBUMS AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE
I. THE COLLECTION ALBUM: "1967-2008", THE FABS BOOK AND THE VIDEO "MONTER"
The FABS is the main libertarian prog-rock, prog-punk and anarcho-punk band in Norway and world wide since 1965. FABS is a) mostly a prog-rock group, with a sound and style a bit similar to a mix of Jimi Hendrix, Cream and Doors -- and still very much their own -- and b) also with a touch of punk, i.e. prog-punk & anarcho-punk!
The FABS has released a cd with a collection of 26 recordings from 1967-2008, 10 with Norwegian and 16 with English texts, 72 min. The FABS has composed all the songs on this album. The cd includes 4 punk cuts, earlier released on the first Norwegian punk-single from August 1979, by FABS with Graxelaget. A.o.t. these recordings were in the 1980s frequently played on Radio Libertaire in Paris. Three of the punk cuts from the cd were played on the punkradio Aggresso in Bergen, together with an interview with Timian Sabatini, the primus motor of FABS, in September and October 2008.
The latest recordings on the cd are "Highway To Anarchy" (2008) and "We're Gonna Change The World (2004). The cut "Feit Føderal Pønk" from the cd was listed among the best records of the last 6 months and played on the punkradio Aggresso's X-mas special. Also a book about FABS is released, with the collection cd and Norway's first rock-video/dvd, "Monter" 28 min. featuring FABS with the Culture Syndicate from 1968, and interviews, pictures, different line-ups, lyrics, etc. The book was updated with new material in September 2009.
In the early days the band had jobs at Club 7, Rondo, Poppy Club, Drop in etc. in Oslo, but played mostly in Follo where it was based. The band was also interviewed several times, a.o.t. in Det Nye. The FABS held a releaseparty for the book and the collection cd 01.11.2008, and it was a great, full booked, party. FABS also played live, besides presenting the collection cd plus the book.
II. MORE ABOUT THE VIDEO AND UNDERGROUND MOVIE "MONTER"
The 28 min. underground movie "Monter" is a critique of the authoritarian, red and somewhat brown, social democratic, Marxist, social system and shopping party in Norway around 1968. It starts with 1. the poem "Monter, a collection of pictures dedicated to you, dear human being. As in front of a mirror you rattle in your chain, without hearing that you are fettered in a glass-house" in Norwegian, and a skeleton, 2. with a red flag on the roof of the "House of Norway", a brick house, which also is the "Monter" regarding societal organization, mentality and conciousness, and 3. the guests to a party arrive. The movie is about a sort of role-playing game, where participants are involved in an imaginary, dreamlike party, representing the Marxist authoritarian consumer society, which in turn makes people unfree and creates emptiness.
The video mocks at - and comes with ironic remarks about: 1. drug culture, particularly "sex and drugs and rock'n roll", including alcohol; 2. gambling and gambling addiction; 3. religion/new-age in general, and especially the hippie escapist "Flower Power and Quran & Pot" culture, see also point 1; 3. youth problems including ochlarchy, i.e. mobbing and mob rule; 4. secret service ochlarchy where agents are hammering on the door to a libertarian in a public telephone call box, and later two windows of a prison cell appear, in a polluted slum area in Oslo: "Big Brother Marxist Dirt", and ironic - "Watching The Dirt From A [Marxist] 'Wonderland'", see also point 7; 5. manipulative commercials; and 6. other authoritarian tendencies of the society, including the reduction to a state of stupidity. 7. "Monter" also includes protests against pollution as, radioactivity, etc., and declares 8. that we will change the world, create a more libertarian and healthier system.
The video ends with a) a light in the darkness, meaning libertarian ideas and hope, b) an anarchist direct action for improvement of "GAIA", mother earth, in the form of a globe, shaking it etc. but of course not destroying the globe, persons or material things, but changing the societal organization in horizontal direction, and c) a sunrise while playing "Sunrise For Anarchy - When", plus d) the FABS singing watching the people in a monter high - and ironic, 'masterpieces' of time. We also see FABS playing in several parts of the video.
Norway has since 1994/95 been an anarchy of low degree, but there are plenty of authoritarian tendencies, not least abroad, so the anarchist social criticism - and the libertarian struggle for a freer society - of "Monter", is still relevant.
Apropos large anti-nuke demonstrations world wide lately. The Green Anarchist International Association, GAIA, has a general direct action called Anarchists Against Nukes, AAN, a libertarian campaign, i.e. without ochlarchy. The campaign is against both fission nuclear power plants and nuclear bombs. The campaign has roots back to the FABS' anarchist antinuke prog-rock record "She Was Strong And Young - Now She's Radioactive" from the album "Soundtrack From Monter - Anarchist Criticism Of Norway 1968", recorded in 1968. "She" here mainly means GAIA, "mother earth", say, in the springtime. The FABS supports AAN, and "... Now She's Radioactive" is the official anthem of this campaign.
Monter can be seen on Youtube http://youtu.be/wpLiLpOK_sg.
III. THE ALBUM "BALLAD OF EXTERAZY GRAX" 1979
The anarcho-punk rock-opera album "Balladen Om Exterazy Grax" [The Ballad Of Exterazy Grax] was recorded in 1978 and released on vinyl, an EP-single, on Folkebladet's @-anarchy label early in August 1979. "Exterazy Grax" is a surrealistic nick-name for the anarchist movement, and "graxing" means anarchist action, especially related to culture. The 10 cuts on this album are also found on the collection cd, but an mp3-version of the vinyl EP-album is available at several Internet shops. FABS Fanclub has a limited number of the original vinyl EP, with a hard-hitting anarcho-punk front-cover, and rear-cover with the Do-It-Yourself word of wisdom: "Pønk Sjæl" [Punk Yourself]. The cut "Feit Føderal Pønk" (Fat Federal Punk) was played on NRK-Lydverket/Rilleristing 25.09.2010.
Apropos large animal liberation demonstrations in Norway lately! The Green Anarchist International Association, GAIA, has a general direct action called Animal Liberation From Abuse, ALFA, an anarchist campaign, i.e. without ochlarchy. The campaign has roots back to the FABS' anarchist animal liberation punk record "Villsvinpønk" [Wild Boar Punk], one of the records on "Balladen Om Exterazy Grax" [The Ballad Of Exterazy Grax]. The FABS supports ALFA, and "Villsvinpønk" [Wild Boar Punk] is the official anthem of this campaign.
"Villsvinpønk" [Wild Boar Punk] also has a deeper and broader anarchist meaning, regarding liberation from brainwashing religious and political sects and similar, where the FABS is engaged. Villsvinpønk" [Wild Boar Punk] should here be seen in connection with the next cut on the EP, the punk-song "Han Er Troende" [He Is A Believer], with an energetic kick-off against Marxists, religious and other 'believers', also kicking against fanatic and ochlarchical "animal liberation" groups. Listen to both records at Spotify, or a part of them at other online shops, also available on cd and vinyl (very limited number) at the record shop THE FABS HUB, and from FABS Fanclub for members. Sing along "Villsvinpønk" [Wild Boar Punk] - it is a very catchy tune, and the other records on "Balladen Om Exterazy Grax" [The Ballad Of Exterazy Grax], join in the opera.
IV. FABS LIVE CONCERT IN OSLO 2008, THE SINGLE "PUNK OUT" AND THE ALBUM "PUNK OUT FOR FANS ONLY" 2009
Recordings from the live concert at the releaseparty for "1967-2008", including a.o.t. punk-versions of "We're Gonna Change The World" (part 1 and 2) and the instrumental-punk cuts "Anarchy In Oslo" and "Anarchy Bird And Butterfly Revisited", were released on a cd in the autumn 2009. This cd called "Punk Out For Fans Only", also includes two new (2009) compositions, called "Punk In" and "Punk Out", recorded in June & July 2009, the interview with Timian Sabatini at the punkradio Aggresso, and some older live material, punk and some pre-punk recordings. "POFFO" is a collection of the most punk-rock styled records of the FABS, plus some pre-punk roots back to 1966. The punk-song "Han Er Troende" [He is a believer], with an energetic kick-off against Marxists, by FABS with Graxelaget, was first recorded in a version by the FABS in 1970, and is perhaps the first punk-song in the history.
"Punk In" and "Punk Out" are both inspired by early Kinks, Sex Pistols, FABS' opera-punk and the 1966 record Objections Overruled, and given a new FABS punk-dimension updated per 2009, with a clear anarchist message. Play the record - click on: Punk Out. The Anarchist International's Culture Syndicate has called "Punk Out", "the best punk record of the world so far in 2009/10" , and "the new year tune 2010". Feel free to give us a feedback regarding "Punk Out" and tell us what you think about the record - click on the mailform below, and write and post a comment!
The FABS held a releaseparty for the cd "Punk Out For Fans Only" 19.09.2009, and it was a great party, with a "Punk In And Sing Out" program. The cut "Punk In" from the cd was played on the punkradio Aggresso in Bergen Wednesday 23.09.2009.
V. NEW ALBUM IN 2011 "ANARKI I NORGE - ANARCHY IN NORWAY"- AVAILABLE AT YOUTUBE
The FABS has released the album "Anarki I Norge - Anarchy In Norway", much instrumental, but also cuts with lyrics in Norwegian, Spanish and English, with a.o.t. libertarian progrock, prog-punk, anarcho-punk and anarchist ballad parts. There is more information about this album at FABS' HOMEPAGE and at the Wordfile FABS: Anarki i Norge - Anarchy In Norway. This is a major composition from the FABS. It is available at YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nQAaOcG9zc7n3KtfWgryN_Mpz_ILClLrQ.
VI. THE ALBUM "SOUNDTRACK FROM MONTER - ANARCHIST CRITICISM OF NORWAY 1968" 2010
FABS has also in 2010 issued: "Soundtrack From Monter - Anarchist Criticism Of Norway 1968" which have all the original recordings to the 28 minutes movie/rockvideo "Monter" from 1968, and a new introduction, starting with the original guitarsolo-riff of "We Will Change The World" and with the following lyrics:
Anarchist Introduction
"Since 1945 Norway had a Marxist economic-political system, close to a one-party state. In 1968 FABS with the Culture Syndicate made the underground movie and rock-video 'Monter', with a strong anarchist criticism of the red and somewhat brown socialdemocratic Marxist system, and declaring 'We Will Change The World'. The production of the movie coincided with the somewhat anarchist revolt in France May 1968, and FABS with the Culture Syndicate also ran up the anarchist black flag on the roof of their center in those days.
It should however take about 26 years before Norway late in 1994, via a velvet revolutionary change, became libertarian, i.e. an anarchy of low degree, with about 53 percent degree of anarchism in the middle of 1995. Norway has been an anarchy since then, and per 2010 has about 54 percent degree of anarchism. Long live the anarchy!
Here the FABS - the Federalist Anarchist Beat Society, proudly presents the original soundtrack to: 'Monter, a collection of pictures dedicated to you, dear human being. As in front of a mirror you rattle in your chain, without hearing that you are fettered in a glass-house.' Some of this anarchist criticism is mocking at the authoritarian Marxist system, also with irony. We hope these recordings, "Soundtrack From Monter - [an] Anarchist Criticism of Norway 1968", and the movie Monter itself - available on dvd, still will inspire and contribute to the fight for increased libertarian degree world wide!"
All the compositions with lyrics of the album "Soundtrack From Monter - Anarchist Criticism Of Norway 1968" have English texts. The cd includes among other hits "Theme From Monter", "What People Hate", "Anarchy, Bird and Butterfly", "Quick Blues", "Watching The Dirt From A Wonderland" and of course "We Will Change The World". The FABS has composed all the songs on this album. All in all there are 19 tracks on this album, some with partly surrealistic lyrics, using words that fit in, but are unknown in ordinary dictionaries...
For more information about the album "Soundtrack From Monter - Anarchist Criticism Of Norway 1968", FABS' lineup on this record, the names of all of the tracks on the cd, etc. click on the Wordfile FABS - Soundtrack From Monter....
VII. SURREALISM AND FABS
Surrealism means joining dream and fantasy to everyday reality to form an advanced reality, a surreality. FABS developes surrealism in an anarchist context, as opposed to Freudian and Marxist surrealism, in this album of 1968, as well as on their anarcho-punk-opera, the Ballad Of Exterazy Grax, released on a vinyl EP in 1979, recorded in 1978, - and on some other recordings...
Surrealism is rooted back to Dadaism and André Breton in 1924. When Breton died in 1966, FABS took over as major spokesmen of surrealism, mostly related to rock, but also in paintings, the partly surrealistic movie "Monter" from 1968, etc. FABS' surrealism is a free anarchist surrealism, extending, but mainly rooted in, the present or future reality.
VIII. FABS AND EXPERIMENTAL ANARCHISTIC NEW MUSIC
Also several compositions on "Soundtrack From Monter - Anarchist Criticism Of Norway 1968", with all cuts recorded in 1967 and 68 except the "Anarchist Introduction" recorded in 2010, are experimental and directly inspired by Arne Nordheim's music. These compositions are cut no 2. "Prelude of Monter", no 9. "Short Instrumental And Piano Blues", no 14. "Big Brother Marxist Dirt", and no 16. "Sunrise For Anarchy - When?"
Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim (1931-2010) made his international breakthrough at the beginning of the 1960s. Nordheim was a contemporary "experimental new music" composer who also achieved great recognition beyond the borders of his own country. Nordheim's name is inextricably linked to the arrival of musical modernism in Norway. In his roles as composer, music critic and champion of composers' rights, he ensured that international trends gained a foothold during a period when Norwegian music was still influenced by national romanticism and Marxist social democracy.
Arne Nordheim grew up in a period when all forms of cultural expression in Norway were expected to reflect our "national identity" and Marxism. Arne Nordheim rebelled against this fettered approach. Keywords in Nordheim's music are 1. internationalist communication, 2. expanding the horizon, 3. soundscapes of infinity, 4. movement and change, 5. peace and human rights, 6. forbidden music - public struggles and 7. the "impossible" is possible. All in all Nordheim stands for musical anarchy and anarchism, including optimal order - the highest form of order. Also FABS has a.o.t. signed up to these 7 keywords within the framework of progressive rock with a touch of punk, in their free musical anarchy. But FABS goes further, promoting economical and political/administrative anarchy and anarchism.
In 2012 FABS started working on a new experimental music album called "The Wizards Of @@z".
IX. FABS' LIBERTARIAN MUSIC - AN INSPIRATION FOR ANARCHIST ACTION - DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL
In this connection it may be mentioned that a preliminary version of the first cut of the FABS' "1967-2008" collection-cd "Highway To Anarchy" (2008) was composed and recorded early in the days of the velvet anarchist revolution in Norway 1994/95, and was a major inspiration in the fight for anarchy for the Anarchist Federation of/in Norway (AFIN) and the Anarchist International Information Service (AIT-AIIS). Other major inspiration sources were a) cut no 3 of the collection-cd, "Sadom", which may also be written "S@dom", about an exciting anarchist city, recorded in 1970, and b) "Fat Federal Punk [Feit Føderal Pønk]", as mentioned recorded in 1978, that calls for a "free socialistic... anarchy". As for "Highway To Anarchy" it should be noticed that this road or highway is the aim, i.e. from low degree of anarchy towards higher degree of anarchy. "The road is the aim" is an old anarchist word of wisdom...
The records of FABS has a.o.t., as mentioned been played at Radio Libertaire in Paris, presented at the international anarchist conference in 1984 in Venice, and FABS-pressreleases have been published by among others the anarcho-syndicalist CNT-AIT. FABS has been, and is, a major source of inspiration for the Anarchist International in general, now and before. FABS was mentioned in International Journal of Anarchism 2(24) 1994 before the anarchist velvet revolution... The FABS has a long term contract with the Anarchist International as house band for the organization.
X. FABS' MUSIC HAS A DEEPER ANARCHIST MEANING - 'SHE' IS 'GAIA' - MOTHER EARTH, ETC.
Almost all of the records of FABS have a deeper, anarchist meaning, reflecting libertarian criticism and views of the world in general, before, now and in the future, some with surrealistic elements, domestic and international. "She" and similar usually mean 'GAIA', mother earth, nature - more or less polluted and with more or less authoritarian societal systems. This is valid also for the original front-cover of "The Ballad Of Exterazy Grax" that shows 'GAIA', mother earth, giving rebirth to Exterazy Grax, i.e. the anarchist movement. Exterazy is reborn with the feet first, ready to stand up for libertarian rights, and with a punk-style safety pin in the foot... This is further explained in the song "Exterazy Grax".
The Sun, Sola in Norwegian, means Anarchy/Anarchism, say, in the composition "Sunrise For Anarchy, When?" of the Monter-album, in the phrase "som jorda, som fanger sitt lys av sola" in the title cut of the Grax-album, and the phrase "det vi trenger er et glimt av liv og sola" in "Feit Føderal Pønk" of the Grax-album.
"Fire" is about the fire of love for freedom, solidarity, equality and other anarchist principles. The "Book Of Love" is about anarchist words of wisdom etc., and the often "unknown" writers, before, now and in the future. "Very Heavy" and the surrealistic "I'm Sad" are about the feelings of a person in an authoritarian society, "Very Heavy" also with some "golden age dreams". "Big Brother Marxist Dirt" is about secret service ochlarchy (mob rule) against libertarians, etc. "Stone and rubble" in the mind means anger, "high" means enlightened, and "high up in the sky", "stone high" and similar mean an anarchist consciousness, say, in "Darkness".
"Fever stone" means "high up in the sky" with the blood sat in fever by and for anarchism, irritated and angry over authoritarian tendencies, say, in "Theme From Monter". "Silent war" means anarchist class struggle, and "it all" an authoritarian system, in "What People Hate". "Three" usually indicates the "third way", social-individualist anarchism, say, in the phrase "going for three days". "Red Dough" is about remuneration in a Marxist, authoritarian, system. "My Extasy" is about an escapistic type of person and policy, and libertarian criticism in this connection.
The expression "Uria Puria" represents an advanced reality, a surreality, of the latin 'urea pura', meaning 'unadulterated clean piss in crystallized form' - it is also the name of a homeopathic swindle medicin. And the song "Uria Puria" on the Grax-album is an anarchist criticism of brain-dead rock and pop, and the ignorant fans of bands playing politically meaningless, say, "love and kiss", songs, and following trendy fashion. FABS also use the term "ochlarchist" in "Punk In" and "Punk Out", where ochlarchy is meaning mob rule broadly defined. You don't find the word ochlarchist in the ordinary Orwellian Big Brother newspeak dictionaries, but it is central to anarchim. 1. Anarchy and ochlarchy and 2. anarchists and ochlarchists/ochlarchs, are opposites. Etc. etc.
XI. THE ALBUMS ON CD - MEMBERSHIP IN FABS FANCLUB - CONTACT THE 'FABS HUB' - AND MORE
The FABS "1967-2008" collection cd, "Punk Out For Fans Only", "Soundtrack From Monter - Anarchist Criticism Of Norway 1968" and "Anarki I Norge - Anarchy In Norway", cost 160 NOK each in record shops. The dvd "Monter" costs 190 NOK. The book costs 600 NOK ordinarily, plus postal charge for sending it to you, but both the book and the dvd/cds are available from FABS Fanclub with 10% discount. The albums on cd are in WAV-format, somewhat better sound-quality compared to mp3-downloads. Full price-list for FABS products are available at FABS' HOMEPAGE - CLICK HERE! and at the Web of The FABS HUB - International Center for FABS in Oslo - Distributes FABS products world wide - Click here.
Membership of FABS Fanclub is free - join today (see below)! Members of FABS Fanclub receive e-mails with updated news about FABS, and can buy posters, records etc., at discounted rates!! Order the FABS book or the cds alone today!!! To the press: Interviews etc. with Timian Sabatini can be arranged by contacting FABS Fanclub.
Also feel free to contact the FABS HUB. The FABS HUB distributes FABS products world wide by post. You can buy all of the FABS' main albums on cd at The FABS HUB, the dvd "Monter", and they also have FABS posters etc. and distribute some free material from FABS Fanclub. All FABS products sold by The FABS HUB are personally signed by Timian Sabatini, primus motor of FABS: "With Libertarian Greetings from Timian Sabatini for F@BS". Order today!
The latest from the FABS is the science fiction story Tellus, Anarchy vs Ochlarchy, Cosmos, Magic and Love, also including Emma Amelias Trudelutt - Emma Amelia's Tune, played by the FABS: Click Here! Also text and sound from an interview with RadiOrakel in Oslo 12.02.2019 is included: Click Here! The interview with RadiOrakel includes 15 hits from the FABS.
XII. LISTEN TO FABS ON INTERNET ONLINE SHOPS DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL AND ANARCHIST ACTION
FABS and Pink Dirt on Platekompaniet, iTunes, Napster, Amazon.com, Tidal, Spotify and more:
FABS' anarcho-punk-rock-opera, EP/cd, 1. "Balladen Om Exterazy Grax" from 1979, 10 cuts, 2. the collection cd FABS "1967-2008", from 2008, 26 cuts (including the punk-opera and 16 other cuts), 3. the cd FABS: "Punk Out For Fans Only" from 2009, 14 cuts, 4. the cd FABS: "Soundtrack From Monter - Anarchist Criticism Of Norway 1968", issued in 2010, 19 cuts, and 5. the cd FABS: Anarki I Norge - Anarchy In Norway, 19 cuts, issued 2011, are for sale at Platekompaniet, iTtunes Store, Napster, Amazon.com and other online record-shops. We recommend Platekompaniet, because at this online shop you dont need to download anything to get access, just:
1. Click on Platekompaniet - The Diskcompany. 2. Search for FABS via the search (søk) option at Platekompaniet, 3. Click on the album (i.e the picture of the cover) you want to hear or buy, and you will get a list of the cuts on this album, then 4. click on (>) to the left of the cut you want to listen to. 5. You can listen free to the beginning (30 sec.) of a cut for sale, without buying it. But FABS Fanclub of course hope you will buy records and in this way support the Federalist Anarchist Beat Society - FABS.
Also the major recordings of our friend Atle Skift with his band Pink Dirt, are for sale at Platekompaniet and other online record-shops. FABS and Pink Dirt records are also available on Tidal and Spotify. FABS released as mentioned the first Norwegian punk-single in August 1979, with a.o.t. "Feit Føderal Pønk" [Fat Federal Punk] and "Han Er Troende" [He Is A Believer], kicking against Marxist and other 'believers', and Pink Dirt released the second in September 1979 with "Hey Sir".
NB! The hard-hitting anarchist Track 3 on FABS: "Punk Out For Fans Only", punk-radio Aggresso's interview with Timian Sabatini, is 'omitted' in the version of the album at Platekompaniet and other Internet shops. However you can listen to the interview by clicking on FABS: POFFO Track 3. By the way, this interview about the punk-movement and the anarchist connection, is called historic by the National Library in Norway (Nasjonalbiblioteket). And the original hard-hitting anarcho-punk cover of "Balladen Om Exterazy Grax" is 'changed' a bit to a more 'mild' version at Platekompaniet and other Internet shops. However you can buy the EP with the original cover from FABS Fanclub. Thus, regarding Internet-shops, a slight touch of Arne Nordheim's keyword 6. 'forbidden music - public struggles', is going on vis-a-vis the FABS. But we can all live with it... the beat goes on - and the fight for a) higher degree of anarchy in Norway and b) less authoritarian systems world wide, is going on at full force with the music.
FABS in Iceland
Press release from the Libertarian Federation of Iceland: The main Nordic and international libertarian progressive rock and punk-band FABS - the Federalist Anarchist Beat Society's five main albums are for listening and sale in Iceland at Tonlist.is, click on 1. The Ballad Of Exterazy Grax (1979), 2. FABS' Collection Album 1967-2008 (2008), 3. Punk Out For Fans Only (2009), 4. Soundtrack From Monter - Anarchist Criticism of Norway 1968 (2010), 5. Anarki i Norge - Anarchy in Norway (2011). See (click on:) FABS for more information. The FABS is major source of inspiration for the Northern Anarchist Confederation and the Icelandic section LFI-IFR.
FABS in anglophone countries
Press release from the anglophone Anarchist Federation: The main international libertarian progressive rock and punk-band FABS, the Federalist Anarchist Beat Society's five main albums, are available via iTunes.apple.com/us and emusic.com, click on 1. The Ballad Of Exterazy Grax (1979), 2. FABS' Collection Album 1967-2008 (2008), 3. Punk Out For Fans Only (2009), 4. Soundtrack From Monter - Anarchist Criticism of Norway 1968 (2010), 5. Anarki i Norge - Anarchy in Norway (2011). Click on: FABS Fanclub for more information. The FABS is an important source of inspiration for the anglophone Anarchist Federation, see Freedom Online.
International anarchist action for the FABS
Press release from the Anarchist International. The Anarchist International sees the music etc. of FABS as an important source of inspiration for anarchists, anarchism and anarchist action, in a global perspective. The Anarchist International protests against the tendencies of harassment of FABS from the capitalist - economical plutarchist - Internet online shops, although the five major albums of the FABS per 2011 are represented in these shops for listening and buying internationally, see (click on:) FABS. The Anarchist International calls on all anarchists world wide, to support FABS, the Federalist Anarchist Beat Society, by spreading information about the band and their music, and buying their records. For more information, see (click on:) FABS. At this Website you will find information about the band and their music, etc. and also links to international Internet online recordshops for each of these five albums.
XIII. FABS' MAIN ALBUMS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM
FABS five main albums with records from 1966 - 2011 are available at Amazon.com for listening and buying. Just click on the following links:
Amazon.com - FABS - The Federalist Anarchist Beat Society - Album: Ballad Of Exterazy Grax/Balladen Om Exterazy Grax - Released on vinyl August 1979
NB! Ad the BOEX album: The cover on Amazon.com is censored! Buy the vinyl record with the original cover - with a clear anarchist meaning (sorry - very few available) or visit the THE FABS HUB IN OSLO to see the original hard hitting cover. Norway's first punk-single (EP) on vinyl, the two most punk style cuts are "Feit Føderal Pønk" [Fat Federal Punk], calling for a "free socialistic... anarchy", and "Han Er Troende" [He Is A Believer], kicking against Marxist and other 'believers'.
Amazon.com - FABS - The Federalist Anarchist Beat Society - Collection Album: 1967-2008 - Released on cd 2008
NB! Ad the 1967-2008 album: The album includes all the Grax-records, i.e. the BOEX, and 16 other cuts recorded from 1967 to 2008!
Amazon.com - FABS - The Federalist Anarchist Beat Society - Album: Punk Out For Fans Only - Released on cd 2009
NB! Ad the POFFO album: The original cut no 3 is censored away - listen/download here: FABS - POFFO Track 3 . The cuts from BOEX have a new mix with more bass, i.e. even more punk style. Two cuts recorded in 1966, i.e. roots pre-punk, and two cuts recorded in 2009 - 'Punk In' and 'Punk Out'.
Amazon.com - FABS - The Federalist Anarchist Beat Society - Album: Soundtrack From Monter - Anarchist Criticism Of Norway 1968 - Released on cd 2010
NB! Ad the 'Soundtrack' album. It has all the original music to the underground movie/dvd/rockvideo "Monter", Norway's first, starring FABS with the Culture Syndicate from 1968 - also with some recordings from 1967, plus an Anarchist Introduction, track no 1, recorded in 2010.
Amazon.com - FABS - The Federalist Anarchist Beat Society - Album: Anarki I Norge - Anarchy In Norway - Released on cd 2011
FABS monumental album about anarchism and anarchy in Norway.
XIV. FABS' MAIN ALBUMS AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE
Linker til spillelister:
NB! The hard-hitting anarchist Track 3 on FABS: "Punk Out For Fans Only", punk-radio Aggresso's interview with Timian Sabatini, is 'omitted' in the version of the album at YOUTUBE and other Internet shops. However you can listen to the interview by clicking on FABS: POFFO Track 3.
English Summary
FABS (The Federalist Anarchist Beat Society) is a progressive rock band with an anarcho-punk tendency, founded in Norway in the 1960s. The band has evolved over more than five decades, combining elements of punk rock, progressive rock, and anarchist ideologies. The band's history is significant for its early adoption of anarchist principles both musically and politically, standing in stark contrast to other bands of its era. While other punk bands like the Sex Pistols merely flirted with the concept of musical anarchy, FABS went further by embracing both musical and economic-political anarchy. Their political stance, firmly rooted in anarchist ideas, has distanced them from mainstream political movements like Marxism, and they have found more resonance with libertarians and anti-authoritarian thinkers.
FABS is more than just a band—they are a political movement. Their commitment to anarchism, both in their music and their activism, has set them apart from many of their contemporaries. Their fusion of progressive rock, punk, and anarchist philosophy remains influential in both musical and political spheres. With over 60 years of history, FABS’ legacy as an anarchist voice in Norwegian music is secure, and their work continues to inspire those who seek a more liberated, environmentally conscious world. i.e. liberal social-democracy, always included green.
Band History and Evolution: Founded in 1964, FABS originally started as "The Spiders" before adopting its current name in 1965. Key members of the band include the Sabatini brothers—Timian (guitar and vocals) and Knut (drums). Over time, the band's lineup fluctuated, but its core members remained constant. Influenced by the likes of Jimi Hendrix and progressive rock pioneers, the band's sound incorporated improvisation and surrealistic lyrics. FABS' unique style eventually earned the description of "progpunk"—a fusion of progressive rock and punk, with anarchistic undertones. Their music often carried themes of social critique, questioning authoritarian regimes and societal norms.
Discography: FABS has released several significant albums throughout its career. Notable releases include the 2008 compilation album "FABS 1967-2008", the "Punk Out For Fans Only" CD in 2009 and "Anarchy In Norway" CD in 2011. Their albums typically combine punk with progressive rock elements, and many tracks, such as those in the 1979 opera "Balladen Om Exterazy Grax," serve as social and political critiques. The band’s musical output also includes experimental and surrealistic compositions, with heavy influence from avant-garde composers like Arne Nordheim. Over the years, FABS released a series of albums critiquing societal trends, the Marxist regime in Norway, and environmental issues.
Political and Philosophical Stance: FABS is staunchly anarchist, with its music serving as both a cultural and political critique. Their philosophy revolves around opposing authoritarianism, consumerism, and environmental degradation. Their 1968 movie "Monter," for instance, criticizes the Norwegian Marxist system of the time, calling for a shift towards a more libertarian society. The band’s anarchist principles extended beyond music, as they played an active role in the establishment of Norway's anarchist federation, AFIN-ANORG. They continue to advocate for "green anarchism," and many of their compositions, including "Footsteps in Sand", "We Will Change the World," and "Anarchy In Norway", reflect a commitment to environmentalism and social revolution.
Media Coverage and Reviews: FABS has received considerable media attention over the years, though often from alternative or independent sources. Norwegian newspapers and weekly magazines such as Det Nye, Illustrert, Akershus Amtstidende, Folkebladet and Dagbladet covered the band’s performances extensively during the 1960s and 70s. In August 1979, the release of their anarcho-punk opera "Balladen Om Exterazy Grax" garnered attention in Norwegian punk circles, though the album was met with mixed reviews. Some reviewers, particularly those aligned with Marxism, criticized the band because of its anarchist approach. However, the band has been praised by anarchist groups and continues to influence punk musicians in Norway.
Key Events and Albums:
1968: Creation of Norway’s first rock video "Monter," a critical portrayal of the Marxist social-democratic system.
1979: Release of "Balladen Om Exterazy Grax," a seminal work in the Norwegian punk movement. The album marked a high point for FABS in terms of their anarchist ideology and was embraced by anarchist circles.
2008-2009: Release of the 40-year retrospective compilation "FABS 1967-2008" and the punk album "Punk Out For Fans Only." These releases brought the band’s historical importance to a new generation of listeners and confirmed their legacy in Norwegian punk history.
2011: Release of the monumental album "Anarchy In Norway" with the history of anarchism in Norway among other things.
FABS Influence in Norwegian Punk: FABS holds a special place in the history of Norwegian punk music. As one of the earliest Norwegian bands to fully embrace both punk and anarchist ideologies, they were trailblazers in the country’s music scene. Their work has influenced multiple generations of punk musicians, and their co-operation with anarchist organizations have further solidified their place as political and cultural icons. Their August 1979 album "Balladen Om Exterazy Grax" is widely regarded as the first genuine punk record in Norway, making them pioneers of the movement. Tracks like "Villsvinpønk" (Wild Boar Punk) & "Feit Føderal Pønk" (Fat Federal Punk) are still referenced in anarchist circles today. "Feit Føderal Pønk" has also been played at NRK (Norsk Rikskringkasting), the national public broadcaster in Norway, in a program covering Norway's punk history.
Folkebladet's editor - Harald Fagerhus on video declares: "We want more ANARCHY now!"
Pictures of information secretaries of the Anarchist International Information Service, AIIS, and more about the AIIS, etc.
Hei ALLE. Det er skummelt at en så gal mann som Donald Trump har så mye MAKT!!! Mvh Anna Quist.
Hey ALL. It's scary that such a crazy man as Donald Trump has so much POWER!!! Best regards Anna Quist.
Hi ALL! Donald Trump's Hamas/Gaza "peace deal" is worth no more than the "Memorandum of Understanding" with Iran, i.e. = 0,
and the 70,000 climate & hunger refugees to the Spanish enclave Ceuta are just the beginning of the 3 billion refugees that will come north and south from near the equator in the event of a "Full blown climate crisis", see:
Web of the GGS-action-website: http://www.anarchy.no/ggs1.html. NB! Also for the solution to the climate crisis!!! Sources: GAIA & AIIS.
PS. The new Trump «peace deal» with Iran is not better!
THE RECIPE FOR HOW TO BREAK TRUMP. OPPSKRIFTEN PÅ HVORDAN VI SKAL KNEKKE TRUMP. SEE (CLICK ON): https://www.anarchy.no/afinaisc.html & https://www.anarchy.no/ija151.html.
READ ALL INCLUDING THE MATERIAL ON THE LINKS. AND TAKE ACTION! REGARDS AISC. 20.01.2026. Source: AIIS.
To solve the climate crisis is the main goal and overriding everything else!
The People's demand for a green planet must now be achieved and passed in the system globally.
Slogans: Less Than 1,5° C Global Warming! Drop Fossil Fuel! Green Energy! Full Employment! 5 % Green GDP growth! Small Income & Rank Differences!
Down with the Gini-index to 20 %! Liberal Social-Democracy! Real & Green Democracy! Eco-Anarchy For Ever! Sufficient High Democracy Degree! Zero Population Growth!
Join The Green Global Spring (GGS) - A bottom up pressure action for sufficient high degree of democracy, that will
automatically also be sufficient green, via Cogrips-model and -policy - in due time before full blown climate-crisis. Click here!
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WELCOME
TO THE
ANARCHIST FEDERATION
For Real, i.e. including green Democracy = Anarchy & Anarchism - and more of it!
The logo above shows the traditional anarchist
greeting and the fire of love for freedom,
equality, solidarity and other anarchist principles, placed on a
shield - a symbol of protection.
FIRE! THE FIRE OF LOVE FOR GAIA - CLICK ON AND LISTEN
FABS
The Federalist Anarchist Beat Society
Det Føderalistiske Anarkistiske Beat Sambandet
A prog-punk & anarcho-punk band
FABS is for real, including green - democracy! = Liberal social democracy = ANARCHY!
GREEN GAIA MUSIC!
FABS is # 1 in the Anarchist Rock & Roll Prog-punk and Anarcho-punk hall of fame. Source: AIIS.
IT IS TIME FOR SOME FIGHTSONGS! REGARDS T. & K. SABATINI.
THE FIGHT AGAINST THE CLIMATE CRISIS – THE GREEN GLOBAL SPRING (GGS) – CONTINUES AT FULL SPEED, SEE: http://www.anarchy.no/green.html & http://www.anarchy.no/ggs1.html.
FOR A GREEN GAIA WITH REAL DEMOCRACY! GAIA, SHE IS THE PLANET EARTH - THE WORLD, "MOTHER EARTH"!
And also The Green Anarchist International Association - GAIA! See (Click on): https://www.anarchy.no/green.html.
... AND THERE ARE MANY SONGS ABOUT SHE = GAIA, THE WORLD, ON THIS WEBSITE. CLICK ON THE LINKS TO FABS' MUSIC ON YOUTUBE AND MORE ABOVE, AND LISTEN!
Anarcho-punk greetings from
A. Kristoffersen
for
FABS Fanclub
FABS ANNO 1967
ARCADIAN MUSIC PRODUCTION
Links
Join the FABS Fanclub - Contact FABS Fanclub - Click here!
GO TO THE FABS HUB - INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR FABS IN OSLO - DISTRIBUTES FABS PRODUCT WORLD WIDE - CLICK HERE!
GO TO FABS' HOMEPAGE - CLICK HERE!
ANARCHISM ... SO FAR
ANARCHISM = LIBERAL SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
MUST NOT BE MIXED UP WITH MARXIST SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
The Anarchy
of Norway is still going strong
THE HISTORY OF NORWAY AND
THE ANARCHY
AND ABOUT ANARCHISM IN NORWAY SINCE ABOUT 1850
FABS' GREEN GAIA MUSIC. LISTEN TO THE FABS' MONUMENTAL ALBUM: ANARKI I NORGE - ANARCHY IN NORWAY - ABOUT THE HISTORY OF ANARCHISM IN NORWAY - CLICK ON:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nQAaOcG9zc7n3KtfWgryN_Mpz_ILClLrQ.
THE FIGHT AGAINST THE CLIMATE CRISIS – THE GREEN GLOBAL SPRING (GGS) – CONTINUES AT FULL SPEED, SEE - CLICK ON:
http://www.anarchy.no/green.html & http://www.anarchy.no/ggs1.html
ALSO THE HISTORY OF THE ANARCHIST INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION SERVICE - AIT/AIIS.
To Beth Rigby & Sky News and everyone. AIIS has updated the History of Norway and the Anarchy, with the flirtatious love story between Beth and L. Hagen.
The love story is at the bottom of this document: The history of Norway and the Anarchy. Read everything and enjoy!!!
Kind regards from AIIS.
PS. There is also information about new network members in AI/IFA = ANORG GLOBAL etc.
See also: IJ@ 1/21 (51) The Situation in USA 2020-21 and later & The Anarchafeminist International - L'Internationale Anarchoféministe - i@f.
About the anarchist PM in UK Andy Burnham, see below. Read it all, included the material on the links!
THE ANARCHIST FEDERATION OF NORWAY - ANARKISTFØDERASJONEN I NORGE - AFIN/ANORG, SEE - CLICK ON:
https://www.anarchy.no/afin.html
The most important political struggle of our time is not between right and left, but between democracy vs. dictatorship!
For nedenfra og opp styring!
Vi er for betydelig nedenfra – fra Folket – og opp til Øvrigheten - innflytelse på styringen. Dette er reelt demokrati = ANARKI.
For bottom-up governance!
We are for significant bottom-up – from the People – and up to the Authority – influence on governance. This is real democracy = ANARCHY.
You can get updated news and comments by clicking on Folkebladet, The Peoples' Journal: https://www.anarchy.no/ and:
The Anarchist International Radio and TV - AIRTV
Some time has passed on since the Norwegian People turned their back against the main economic political course of the marxist social democrat government, at the 1994 EU referendum. This was an anarchist "bottom - up" from the People, i.e. the grassroots, revolutionary change - against the Authorities, i.e. the Bureaucracy, broadly defined in both public and private sector. The "top - down" management of Gro Harlem Brundtland & Co. was crushed, and Norway became an Anarchy, i.e. of low degree. The megatrend of the late eighties and early nineties was a movement to the right and upwards on the Economical Political Map. The EU referendum and more actions indicated a further jump in this direction, and thus the economic political system in Norway made a revolutionary change, and passed the border between the marxist social democrat sector and the anarchist, i.e. liberal social-democratic - sector of social individualism. This of course is a major social event in the economic political world history. A long jump further rightwards may result in a liberalist system, and a reverse tendency may give a retardation to marxist social democracy, but this is not the case at the moment. Thus, Norway became an anarchy in 1994/95, and it still is an anarchist economic-political system, i.e. real democracy = liberal social democracy with a significant green tendency.
LATEST NEWS AND COMMENTS ABOUT THE SITUATION IN UK:
08.05.2026. Updated. UK local elections. At a glance: Election results… Reform UK [right-populist/fascist – similar to the Norwegian Frp, see https://www.anarchy.no/frp.html] has
made big gains at the expense of Labour and the Conservatives... See: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgz155y9exo. Source: BBC.
17.05.2026. Wes Streeting says he will run in any leadership race - and calls for UK to rejoin EU. Source: Sky News. Anarchist Federation: We are strongly against British EU membership, and therefore we believe Wes Streeting is completely unacceptable as the new leader of Labour and UK PM. Source: AIIS.
19.06.2026. Moment Andy Burnham wins Makerfield by-election. Andy Burnham has won the Makerfield by-election with 24,927 votes. Reform UK's Robert Kenyon came second with 15,696 votes. See: https://news.sky.com/video/moment-andy-burnham-wins-makerfield-by-election-13555602. Source: Sky News.
22.06.2026. Keir Starmer announces his resignation as prime minister and leader of Labour Party, see: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ckger03mrl0t. Source: BBC.
23.06.2026. About UK and EU and Cogrips policy vs. Keynesian economic policies. The historic Brexit referendum took place exactly ten years ago on June 23, 2016, when 52% of the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. The UK was characterised by mismanagement and outdated Keynesian economic policies before leaving the EU, and this has continued, although being outside the EU has helped the situation a little. To get back on its feet, the UK must not rejoin the EU but pursue a modern Cogrips policy. For a summary of the Cogrips model and policy, see: https://www.indeco.no/archive/samgrep3.htm. Source: AIIS. From - and more information, see: https://www.anarchy.no/afbpress1.html. Click on and read all including the material on the links. PS. See also the EU-Debate: https://www.anarchy.no/eu.html. Click on and search for brit in this document.
07.07.2026. Nigel Farage, the leader of the so called "Reform UK" party, = populist/fascist, resigns as MP for Clacton after finance row, triggering by-election he says he will stand in. Source: AIIS.
08.07.2026. The Conservatives, Labour, Restore Britain, the Lib Dems and the Greens have ruled out standing candidates against him, in an effective boycott by his main opponents. See: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0ly51kzdz3o. Source: BBC.
10.07.2026. Burnham set to be next PM as 322 Labour MPs back him in first nomination tally, see: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77y0n7k801o. Source: BBC.
17.07.2026. Burnham confirmed as leader of UK’s governing Labour Party, headed for PM, see: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/17/burnham-confirmed-as-leader-of-uks-governing-labour-party-headed-for-pm. Source: Al Jazeera.
20.07.2026. Andy Burnham to become UK prime minister and pledge political stability in No 10 speech, see: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cgrkv8e8l9qt. Source: BBC.
20.07.2026. Burnham's policy choices reveal what kind of PM he wants to be. He has promised nothing less than a new economic model, leaving behind an era of centralisation, privatisation and de-industrialisation. See: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3r0x5nzg0eo. Source: BBC. IIFOR: Burnham has a liberal social democratic (= anarchist) approach. Source: AIIS.
22.07.2026. The latest about Andy Burnham from BBC. See: https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/czp8lmvn549t. Source: BBC. NB! BBC has updated news up to and including today's news about Burnham at this link!
IIFOR: We see a clear liberal social democratic tendency, i.e. a moderate anarchist economic-political approach in Burnham. Source: AIIS.
14.08.2026. Nigel Farage returns as MP, winning Clacton by-election that major parties boycotted. Parliamentary investigation resumes into Farage hours after he wins Clacton by-election, see: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5y40d11zewt. Source: BBC.
15.08.2026. Hi Beth & Co – to all anarchists at Sky News. Nice video of Beth smiling. Have a nice day! Best regards L. Hagen 😉 😊 😃 for AIIS-AIT. Source: AIIS.
15.08.2026. IIFOR: We see a clear liberal social democratic tendency, i.e. a moderate anarchist economic-political approach in Burnham.
He is an anarchist! Source: AIIS-AIT.
18.08.2026. UK 'supports Ukraine 100%', Burnham says, after Russia's drone warning, see: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5dz0kkn0wo. Source: BBC.
C. VIDEO WITH THE SOCIAL-INDIVIDUALIST ANARCHIST
JULIAN ASSANGE - WIKILEAKS AND MORE
THE ANARCHIST INTERNATIONAL
Anarchist International support action for the
social-individualist anarchist Julian Assange and WikiLeaks
Julian Assange, the main spokesperson for the news-organization WikiLeaks, is social and individualist as well as progressive, and may thus be seen as a social-individualist anarchist. As many social-individualist anarchists he does not use the label 'anarchist' about himself, at least not so far... But he 1. has 02.12.2010 been called anarchist on CNN, and more, 2. has a strong co-operation with -- and support for -- the social-individualist Anarchy of Iceland, 3. is mainly acting as an anarchist, a.o.t. a) for a free press -- against the media as a 4th power of the State, b) doing whistle-blowing against authorities, and c) works for libertarian human rights, and thus 4. practically certain is a social-individualist anarchist. To see an interview with Julian Assange about his main policy and activities click here!
The ochlarchy (mob rule broadly defined) against Julian Assange, a) falsely calling his whistle-blowing and other libertarian press-activities criminal, b) smear-campaigns with probably false accusations of rape in Sweden, c)
people calling for his assassination
and d) much, much more mobbing, e) must stop. Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, and their news-reporting, have full support from the Anarchist International and the Anglophone Anarchist Federation, and AI & AF have 02.12.2010 launched an international solidarity direct action for Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. AI & AF call on all anarchists world wide, and all others that read this resolution, to join in the world wide support action. AI & AF demand continued freedom for Julian Assange and WikiLeaks!!!
PS. Fellows world wide! You can join in the international solidarity direct action for Julian Assange and WikiLeaks by forwarding this resolution to your own network, and/or link up the Web of Freedom Online, the official organ of the Anglophone Anarchist Federation and/or the Anarchist International at your Web and/or blog. Do it now!!!
LATEST NEWS ON JULIAN ASSANGE
20.02.2024. Julian Assange makes last-ditch attempt in UK court to avoid extradition to the US, see: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/20/uk/julian-assange-extradition-appeal-ruling-review-intl-gbr/index.html. Source: CNN. AI/IFA and AF: Julian Assange has our full support. Source. AIIS.
20.02.2024. Assange too ill to attend last-ditch court bid against extradition, lawyer says, see: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-68344106. Source: BBC. AI/IFA & AF: We demand freedom for Julian Assange! Source: AIIS.
26.03.2024. Julian Assange staves off extradition to US for now, see: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/26/uk/julian-assange-us-extradition-appeal-intl-gbr/index.html. Source: CNN. AI/IFA & AF: We again demand freedom for Julian Assange! Source: AIIS.
19.05.2024. CNN: Why Julian Assange’s fate matters. And calling Assange an «information anarchist», see: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/19/opinions/julian-assange-extradition-hearing-alan-rusbridger/index.html. Source: CNN.
AI/IFA & AF: We again demand freedom for Julian Assange! Source: AIIS.
20.05.2024. Julian Assange can appeal extradition to the US, UK court rules, see: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/20/uk/julian-assange-wikileaks-extradition-hearing-uk-intl-gbr/index.html. Source: CNN.
AI/IFA & AF: We again demand freedom for Julian Assange! Source: AIIS.
25.06.2024. Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free. The WikiLeaks founder has been held in a prison outside London for the last five years and fought extradition to the U.S. He is expected to return to Australia. See: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/julian-assange-reached-plea-deal-us-allowing-go-free-rcna158695. Source: NBC. AI/IFA & AF: Finally freedom for Julian Assange! We keep the support action going on until Julian is back in Australia. Source: AIIS.
26.06.2024. Julian Assange lands in Australia a free man, see: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxee24pvl94o. Source: BBC. AI/IFA & AF: The support campaign has ended. Source: AIIS.
D. MORE ONLINE RADIO AND TV - UNDER CONSTRUCTION
However meanwhile the AIRTV presents the Northern Anarchist Confederation's favorite Winter Soltice tune and video - Jingle Bells (magic jazz/prog-rock version) - Click here! By the way Winter Solstice is also the birthday of Timian Sabatini, a.k.a. "The Wizard of @@z". "After my birthday, it gets brighter and lighter every year, as long as GAIA follows its orbit in the usual way, and the Sun keeps shining!" Timian says... of course also with a deeper anarchist meaning. The FABS is also called "The Wizards of @@z", and this is also the title of a new album. See - and more information (click on): FABS - Det Føderalistiske Anarkistiske Beat Sambandet - Homepage - English and Norwegian texts, With links - playlists - to their 5 main albums on YOUTUBE and more!
THE IDEAL OF DEMOCRACY
The anarchist (= liberal social-democratic) ideal - the long-term economic-political goal of the anarchists (the liberal social-democrats)!
AI-generated video about the 100% anarchist = real democratic, ideal. Click on: http://www.anarchy.no/anarchistideal.mp4
The anarchist ideal is generally a society organized as far as possible according to anarchist principles, as a guiding star for the economic-political management, etc. The principles for the anarchist ideal society are: 100% socialism and autonomy in the broadest sense, efficiency (Pareto-optimality, also with regard on environmental factors) and justice (the exchange criterion, that no one will exchange positions with anyone else, after all), minimal rank and salary differences - political/administrative and economic hierarchy, including freedom (without deprivation of others' freedom, slavery and tyranny), equality, solidarity; social justice including libertarian (freedomly) law (adopted directly by the people themselves or via delegates) and optimal order, rule of law and human rights, free contracts (not slave contracts), free initiatives, atheism (anarchism is a secular project, but implies full freedom of religion), antimilitarism (based on mutual disarmament and balance of forces), internationalism (not supranationalism, or nationalism), decentralism, self-government and federalism (not hierarchical, EU-like), self-management (autogestion) and libertarian communalism, i.e. decisions are mainly taken locally by the significantly and concretely affected - from anyone according to ability - to anyone according to need. This is the essence of "system and governance without a ruler and ruling" = an-arch-y. That is real democracy.
The usual left vs. the right dimension alone is completely insufficient to provide an adequate picture of the economic-political landscape. The two-dimensional economic-political map presented here gives an adequate picture of the economic-political landscape.
Freedom, i.e. the degree of freedom, is measured by the libertarian degree = 100% - the authoritarian degree. The libertarian degree = the degree of democracy. Freedom, i.e. freedom without harming others' freedom, not freedom at others expence, economically and/or political/administrative, in the widest sense! Real freedom = or > 50% libertarian & democratic, i.e. both economic and political/administrative in the widest sense = Anarchy and Anarchism. Real freedom = or > 50% socialism & autonomy broadly defined = Anarchy and Anarchism. Real democracy always includes green policy, i.e. significant. Real democracy means society should be managed and run from the bottom up, i.e. from the People – grassroots, and upwards, not from the top – down, i.e. significant. This is real federalism. This is freedom in societal perspective.
Fig. 1. The Economic-Political Map
The anarchy degree is 100% - the authoritarian degree within the anarchist quadrant. "Esquerda" means left, and "direita" means right.
The star "*" indicates the Norwegian economic-political system after the velvet anarchist revolution in 1994/95. The anarchist ideal, i.e. real democratic ideal, is at the top of the map.
ABOUT SO CALLED SOCIAL MEDIA!
Facebook, Twitter/X, Tik Tok etc., are not social media, but antisocial, brown authoritarian polyarchical hierarchies. We want them all closed down - NOW!
This multi-headed hydra-troll must be strongly regulated or disappear by law at once!!!
Facebook, Twitter/X, Tik Tok etc., are not social media, but antisocial, and megaphones of lies and ochlarchy!!! Ochlarchy is mob rule broadly defined, including harassment and chaos...
The Peoples' Journal is part of the free press, not freedom at others' expence, as the antisocial media, i.e. Facebook, Twitter/X, Tik Tok etc. do, i.e. ultra-authoritarian propaganda media, not a part of the free press. The liberal social-democrats, i.e. the anarchists, are for free press, not for ultra-authoritarian propaganda media - sewage-media, that are not a part of the free press, but in reality media for criminal ochlarchy. They should thus be strongly regulated or forbidden and closed down. "Freedom of speech" for the mafia is not real freedom of speech, but a part of criminality.
Children and teenagers are particularly vulnerable to this negative influence, often developing mental illness and sometimes leading to suicide.
We are therefore in favor of a ban on children and teenagers from these anti-social news media.
About "Musk interviews German far-right frontwoman": https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr7errxp5jmo. They sowed doubt and confusion so that their audience question what they know to be true. The term that best describes their strategy is “DARVO” (for Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender). It’s a classic manipulation in which someone hides their real motives (in this case, an ultra-fascist agenda) behind feigned victimhood and the misappropriation of “freedom of speech". By invoking “freedom of speech,” they are weaponizing a foundational right to shield themselves from scrutiny and to deflect from the nature of their ideology. It’s a rhetorical strategy designed to confuse audiences, sow doubt about well-documented history, and distract from the speaker’s actual agenda. (PF 11.01.2025)
17.02.2026. Tough questions — and grieving families — await Mark Zuckerberg at «social» media addiction trial Wednesday 18.02.2026, see: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/17/tech/meta-mark-zuckerberg-addiction-trial-testimony. Source: CNN.
04.05.2026. More about freedom of speech and press freedom, see: The individualist anarchist Henrik Ibsen and his "Non-State" Theory - Individual-anarkisten Henrik ibsen og hans "Ikke-Stats" Teori - https://www.anarchy.no/ibsen.html. Source: AIIS.
IN THIS CONNECTION - LISTEN TO:
FABS’ «Punk In And Out» about the fight against ochlarchy (mob rule broadly defined): https://youtu.be/q05xSEsfAB8?si=tYYFgx_W_sCXQ53K
AND LISTEN TO THE GREAT GREEN HIT "FOOTSTEPS IN SAND" - "FOTSPOR I SAND" - CLICK ON:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n7Tco-0cVs&list=OLAK5uy_m1E7DDe-8xgJonvvIXFz58PvWKoNrsIPc&index=7
S@dom - about a green, anarchist city: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXyPlQaneYM&list=OLAK5uy_nQAaOcG9zc7n3KtfWgryN_Mpz_ILClLrQ&index=8
And about SHE = GAIA, is "Very Heavy" - Click on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwyAr3v-t8c&list=OLAK5uy_mpd6BvKQEqYecdjzOSem_y3wi_xKNC1wE&index=6
... AND FABS HAS MANY OTHER SONGS ABOUT SHE = GAIA, THE WORLD!
And the top songs from Norway's first punk single (EP) "Balladen Om Exterazy Grax":
Han Er Troende - He Is A Believer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-H5mAsCPLY&list=OLAK5uy_lI6mZLr8L7hW4Gm9_L2SRTC2KFU6_LLnk&index=4
Feit Føderal Pønk, bl.a. spillt på NRK - Fat Federal Punk, a.o.t. played at NRK, Norway's national public broadcaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdDWPXIKCes&list=OLAK5uy_lI6mZLr8L7hW4Gm9_L2SRTC2KFU6_LLnk&index=2
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For Real, i.e. including green Democracy = Anarchy & Anarchism - and more of it!
REAL DEMOCRACY IS ANARCHY & ANARCHISM! ANARCHY & ANARCHISM ARE REAL DEMOCRACY!
REAL DEMOCRACY IS ALWAYS INCLUDING GREEN!
ANARCHY.NO IS ALL ABOUT DEMOCRACY - INCLUDING THE DEMOCRACY PROJECT!
Democracy, the libertarian, anarchy & anarchism and degrees of this, is a question of influence on decisions. All other things are only relevant as far as they affects the influence on the societal decisions. To be more precise: anarchy & anarchism, the libertarian and democracy is a question of influence on the societal decisions by the People = the Bottom of the societal pyramid, the decisions usually and mainly taken by the Top of the societal pyramid, i.e. the Bureaucracy (authorities) broadly defined in private and public sector. The degree of democracy = influence on the societal decisions by the People = the Bottom of the social pyramid, mainly taken by the Bureaucracy,
the Top of the social pyramid, measured relatively as a percent degree between 0 % and 100 %, that is a precise measure on how much the People govern = democracy, i.e. the degree of it.
Democracy, and more or less of it, is central to societal politics broadly defined, both economical and political/administrative, and in reality Real Democracy, NB! i.e. always including Green, and Full Democracy as an ultimate aim, is the one and only policy in the interest of the People, i.e. People's Politics. Real Democracy has a degree of democracy equal to 50 % or more, and Full Democracy has 100 % degree of democracy. The degree of democracy = the libertarian degree = the anarchist degree - within anarchy & anarchism = real democracy, i.e. 100% - the authoritarian degree, see - click on the Economic-Political Map below. The Democracy Project is a research project about all topics of democracy and adjacent themes, also praxeology - human action research - including the Green Global Spring GGS. For more information about The Democracy Project, click on IIFOR & the Democ. Project below.
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De facto: ochlarchy (mob rule) and anarchy & ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites as war and peace
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say de facto ochlarchy is anarchy and ochlarchists are anarchists are lies equal to war is peace
And it has similar authoritarian, repressive, functions as Big Brother in "1984"
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Participate in the struggle for anarchy, i.e. real, i.e. always including green - democracy!
In addition to the general struggle for anarchy, on top of the agenda,1-2-3, almost equally important, is the fight for
1. social justice and security, 2. solution to the economic crisis & 3. solution to the manmade global warming problem
- all the three points at the top of the agenda must be solved together!!!
To solve the climate crisis is the main goal and overriding everything else!
The People's demand for a green planet must now be achieved and passed in the system globally.
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