John/Togs Tognolini

John/Togs Tognolini
On the Sydney Harbour Bridge with 300,000 other people protesting against Israel's Genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.

A retired Teacher returning to Journalism, Documentary Making, Writing, Acting & Music.

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I’ve been a political activist for over fifty years in the Union and Socialist Movement. I’m a member of NSW Socialists. I've retired as High School Teacher and returning to Journalism & Documentary Making.. My educational qualifications are; Honours Degree in Communications, University of Technology, Sydney, 1994, Diploma of Education Secondary University of Western Sydney, 2000.

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Tuesday, September 09, 2025

A timeline of the attack on Camp Sovereignty on 31/8. by Tom Tanuki

Tom Tanuki brilliantly shows the timeline for the Cowardly Nazi Attack on the Aboriginal Camp Sovereignty, and he shows Nazi Hugo Lennon,whose family owns over thirty thousand homes, telling lies about it on TikTok.

Tom Tanuki plays a unique role in the in Australian Body Politic and his analysis of the March For Australia Rallies here is through. I support Tom Tanuki on Patreon. If you can afford to so please do likewise, if you can’t please share.

John/Togs Tognolini

 


The Albanese Governments FOI Bill: What happened to the promises of Transparency-Swollen Pickles

Anthony Albanese promised integrity and transparency before the 2022 federal election, in fact, he campaigned on it. But now, deep into Labor’s second term, has the Albanese Government delivered — or simply carried on the same culture of secrecy we saw with the Morrison Government?  

I support Swollen Pickles on Pateron, if you can afford to please do like wise, if you can't please share.

John/Togs Tognolini

Saturday, September 06, 2025

How neo-Nazis captured the March for Australia. Tom Tanuki

'Documenting the crowd manipulation tricks deployed by the National Socialist Network to transform nationalist 'Marches for Australia' into, effectively, national socialist marches.

It's a problem for migrants, it's a problem for the wider community, it's a problem for us on the left, and it's even a problem for the people they're using at those Marches.' Tom Tanuki

 

Tom Tanuki plays a unique role in the in Australian Body Politic and his analysis of the March For Australia Rallies here is through. I support Tom Tanuki on Patreon. If you can afford to so please do likewise, if you can’t please share.

John/Togs Tognolini


I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Live On Jools Holland Hootenanny / 2006)

Thursday, September 04, 2025

The Stranglers - No More Heroes • TopPop 197


Lyrics
Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky?He got an ice pickThat made his ears burn
Whatever happened to dear old Lenny?The great Elmyra, and Sancho Panza?Whatever happened to the heroes?Whatever happened to the heroes?
Whatever happened to all the heroes?All the Shakespearoes?They watched their Rome burnWhatever happened to the heroes?Whatever happened to the heroes?
No more heroes any moreNo more heroes any more
Whatever happened to all the heroes?All the Shakespearoes?They watched their Rome burnWhatever happened to the heroes?Whatever happened to the heroes?
No more heroes any moreNo more heroes any more
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: David Greenfield / Jean Jacques Burnel / Brian John Duffy / Hugh A

Sunday, January 26, 2025

26-1-25 Invasion Day by John Tognolini


Gadigal/Sydney Rally Belmore Park Photo by Vlaudin Vega

There is racism and hate in the air since the Fascist Trump was sworn back into the US Whitehouse this week and his boss Elon Musk did the Nazi Salute twice. It’s like Bigots and Hate Merchants have had like an Overdose of Steroids and feel free to speak their hate. I said when Trump was elected last November. What does it mean for us as Australians? Not the Little Imitation Americans of the Worst the US has to offer or the AUKUS Cheer Squad of politicians from both the Australian Labor party and Liberal/National Party. 

I hate Invasion Day and regularly attend the Invasion Day Rally in Gadigal/Sydney Rally and March. It says a lot about history or what passes for history. I saw a media comment. Oh the Aborigines were lucky to colonised by the British and not the Spanish or French. It reminded me of the Bicentenary 1988 and someone saying that on a Triple J talkback, I responded and they played me saying Genocide is Genocide no mater who does it.

I’m not ashamed to be of what Winston Churchill called the ‘Bad Stock’ about Australia’s Convict Ancestry during World War Two. I have two Convicts in my paternal family, my Great-Great Grandfather Thomas Batt, a convict sent to Van Diemans Land for poaching from Kings Somborne, Hampshire, England, who landed in Nipaluna/Hobart/ in 1830. And my Great-Grandfather William Phillips from Norfolk England, for theft who got fifty lashes for trying to escape from Port Arthur. He had arrived in Nipaluna/Hobart/ in 1844.

If we don’t right the wrongs and do the Truth Telling in 2025 about our nation’s history of Aboriginal And Torres Islander Peoples, we will be far worse than anyone who was sent out here as a Convict in chains. Also, by recognising their nationhood we will be entitled to our own nationalism. From what I saw of the march in Gadigal/Sydney and Naarm/Melbourne they were both massive in size, all the younger generations attending, people are reaching out for the truth and no force on Earth is going to stop them.

                       John Tognolini Photo by Vlaudin Vega