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How Long Can The Peace Hold?
The issue of ‘holding together the broad base’ is a perennial one for the left anywhere, wherever & whenever it is attempted. As such it is an issue worth dredging up to examine at the moment, and indeed at this… Continue reading
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Choosing to Forget
There is an ANZAC Day we could have, that occasionally peaks through the one we do have. It’s a day where pithy remarks like ‘Lest We Forget’ and ‘A Day of Remembrance’ have a meaning beyond uncritically elevating the soldiers… Continue reading
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Is It Over?
As I begin typing here, I’m not entirely sure what the end result of this piece will be. I find myself at wits end puzzling over what exactly the New Zealand radical left should do going into the future. It’s… Continue reading
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Left Out? The Extra-Parliamentary Left in Aotearoa/NZ from 1999 to 2008
By popular demand, I’ve decided to put a copy of my master’s dissertation on the blog for anyone interested to have a browse. Left Out? The Extra-Parliamentary Left in Aotearoa/NZ from 1999 to 2008 represents both a year of my life… Continue reading
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To Fascism or Not: The Origins of New Zealand’s Far Right (p2)
Following on from the previous article (here) in this part I’ll be looking at the 1905 murder of Joe Kum Yung, anti-semitism and Jewish refugees from Europe, and two mass right-wing or reactionary movements which arose in NZ during the… Continue reading
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To Jettison the ‘Pragmatists’
I’ve been meaning to put my thoughts on the role of intellectualism, education, and independent media for New Zealand socialists for a while now. Folk who know me well know I tread an awkward position denouncing both the barren anti-intellectualism… Continue reading
Notes South from Nowhere 