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Review – Where There’s Smoke…
I recently wrote a review of Christchurch activist Byron C Clark’s authorial debut FEAR: New Zealand’s hostile underworld of extremists (which will be available in a publication outside this blog in a few months), and discovered to some surprise while… Continue reading
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Supplementary Notes on Sectology, the Current State and Political Composition of the Socialist Left
The following are some notes related to a somewhat impromptu talk I gave at the first annual Otago Politics Day School in August entitled The Modern Socialist Left in New Zealand: Its Current State and Political Composition. Because the talk… Continue reading
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Reprint: Broadsheet Debates the “New Age” (Sue Flitchett & Cushla Dodson, Broadsheet, 1988-1989)
After my dive into the Broadsheet archives, which in all honesty revealed very little for the project that initiated it, I wound up with somewhere in the vicinity of two to three dozen pieces that caught my eye for republishing… Continue reading
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The Dream Is Over, But The Task Remains
Some time ago I wrote a piece entitled Is It Over? as I grappled with the possibly bleak implications of my research. I fretted that everyone was running blind towards a brick wall, or worse that they’d struck it full… Continue reading
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An Afternoon at Yours
Yours is a newly founded worker cooperative opening soon at 43 Moray Place in Central Dunedin. Politically conscious worker cooperatives are something of a novelty in New Zealand, though the cooperative model generally is less of a rarity (paging Fonterra).… Continue reading
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Reprint: Broadsheet on Anti-Abortion Arsons in New Zealand (Sandra Coney & Jenny Rankine, Broadsheet, 1976-1987)
More material from the Broadsheet archive that’s caught my eye as I continue my deep dive into that wonderful resource, this time a collection of four reports on arson attacks against abortion clinics and services in New Zealand. Anti-abortion violence… Continue reading
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Reprint: Mosgiel – women ‘restructured’ (Mary Hancock, Broadsheet, 1981)
I’ve been scouring the Broadsheet archive for an unrelated project, and among other things this article caught my eye as something that should gain a new audience it may not otherwise have if I left it be. While the other… Continue reading
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Gathering Flames (Mosgiel Firefighters Strike, 19th August 2022)
After decades of running down and chronic underfunding, the fire service in New Zealand experienced its first unqualified strike across the country on the 19th August for an hour at 11AM. While there have been go-slows, work-to-rules, and partial strikes… Continue reading
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Supplementary Notes on the International Question and Movement Dynamics
This is a supplemental to the article Notes on the International Question, recently published in an issue of Fightback, collating a loose collection of notes, material cut from the article, and conversations had on the article in the intervening month.… Continue reading
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A Day in the Winter Sun (Pro-Choice/US Solidarity Rally, 16th July 2022)
In the aftermath of the overturning of Roe v Wade and subsequent developments (both in the United States and in the National Party here in New Zealand), feminist protests offering solidarity to the US and reaffirming the commitment to maintain… Continue reading
Notes South from Nowhere 