Activism
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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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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
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Derek’s No Good, Very Bad Day in Dunedin (Anti-FRC Rally, 2nd July 2022)
Destiny Church level boss in Christchurch and leading organiser of their de facto ‘street wing’ the Freedom & Rights Coalition (FRC) Derek Tait took a trip down to Dunedin in early July. As far as I’m aware this is the… 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
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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
Notes South from Nowhere 