anti-semitism
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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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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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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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Reprint: Extracts from Everyone Wants To Be Fuehrer
To celebrate the National Front continuing a proud tradition of losing in Wellington; I’ve thrown up a scan of the chapter on New Zealand from David Harcourt’s 1972 study of Australasian national socialism, Everyone Wants to be Fuehrer. It was… Continue reading
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Reprint: Salient Interviews Colin King-Ansell (uncredited, Salient, 1970)
This three page interview was the center-piece of the feature on the far right Salient published in 1970 (the rest of which is here). A fair chunk of the article as it appears in the archive is unclear, I’ve done… Continue reading
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Reprint: Salient looks at New Zealand’s Far Right (uncredited, Salient, 1970)
This took a while to put together, effectively editing around 10,000 words of article that included both scanning mistakes and the occasional mistake in the original articles. I’ve cut the centerpiece interview (posted here), and some literature from the National… Continue reading
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Reprint: Salient Confronts the Radical Right in the Swingin’ Sixties (various, Salient, 1965-1967)
I’ll be posting some more things I dig out from the Salient archive over the next few days, all on the radical right in New Zealand. The topic has a fairly small amount published on it, so until I’ve finished… Continue reading
Notes South from Nowhere 