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Announcements & Updates (October 2025)
Now that the blog has fully been transitioned to the more ‘central hub’ role I outlined in an article earlier this year, I will be making some more of the update/announcement posts I used to make in the early days… Continue reading
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I Love The World: Some Notes & Reflections After 8 Years of NSfN
Patience is a virtue that you never seemed to learnYou were born with nothing, to nothing you’ll return – New Model Army, “Lights Go Out”, The Ghost of Cain (1985) I find myself in a peculiar mood these days with… Continue reading
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Condition, Terminal? Notes Toward and Against a Concept of National Pessimism
I have intended for some time to write this piece, to formalize ideas which have swirled in the æther since I started my first clumsy attempts at writing for a public audience. Some have been abandoned, others changed in form… Continue reading
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On Students and Socialism
This article was originally written way back when the blog was launched in 2017 (I’m reasonably sure I penned a draft even earlier while in undergrad), but has slowly migrated – mostly finished and entirely unpublished – across laptops, USB… Continue reading
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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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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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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 Sectological Survey of NZ (2022)
When I pulled down the Leftovers, the section of the website I used to run as a guide to the organisations and sects of the socialist left in NZ, it was due in part to simply not having the time… Continue reading
Notes South from Nowhere 