radical right
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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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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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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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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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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
Notes South from Nowhere 