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Notes on the International Question
This article has been bubbling away in the background since the military coup d’état of the 1st February 2021 in Myanmar, I returned to it but still did not see fit to finish it during the Solomon Islands riots of… Continue reading
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Clowns to the Left, Cowards to the Right
After something of a break from writing over the length of the pandemic, it is probably somewhat unusual for me to write here so soon after I last published something. Alas, the story that has gripped media headlines and the… Continue reading
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Who Wants to go Camping?
As I start writing, the tent encampment on parliament grounds that resulted from “Convoy 2022” remains in place. Rain is belting Wellington and the sprinklers have been turned on in a rather spiteful effort to encourage the protesters to disperse… Continue reading
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The Birth of a Modern Far Right in New Zealand: The Post-War Years, 1950s-1980s
A few years back I began what was intended to be a fairly brisk series of articles detailing the history of what can broadly be considered a ‘far right’ politics in New Zealand, with the intention of having an easily… Continue reading
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Independent Socialist Media in NZ: A Quick Survey
It probably isn’t too controversial to say that left media in New Zealand has gone through some uncomfortable teething pains this decade. Although it hasn’t exactly been in a healthy state since probably the 1990s, the mix of rapid acceleration… Continue reading
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The Roots of the Next Atrocity: Notes on the Future of NZ Reaction
This piece will more be two separate pieces joined together, both of which I’ve been cooking up the past couple weeks but realised were too intertwined to really present separately. As such, it will deal with two very similar but… Continue reading
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Nightmare
I’m numb in a cafe as I write this, flickers of panic for the future and my own family’s experience at Aramoana nearly three decades ago (before my birth, to be clear) are still periodically firing. It will be nearly… Continue reading
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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
Notes South from Nowhere 