Socialism
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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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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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Left Out? The Extra-Parliamentary Left in Aotearoa/NZ from 1999 to 2008
By popular demand, I’ve decided to put a copy of my master’s dissertation on the blog for anyone interested to have a browse. Left Out? The Extra-Parliamentary Left in Aotearoa/NZ from 1999 to 2008 represents both a year of my life… Continue reading
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To Jettison the ‘Pragmatists’
I’ve been meaning to put my thoughts on the role of intellectualism, education, and independent media for New Zealand socialists for a while now. Folk who know me well know I tread an awkward position denouncing both the barren anti-intellectualism… Continue reading
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Reprint: Interview w/ Don Franks of the Brass Razoo Solidarity Band (The Spark, 2010)
My thesis material is starting to pile up, so I’m getting quite a collection of socialist and anarchist publications from the past 20 years around the house. As such, I’m gonna start republishing various articles and whatnot that catch my… Continue reading
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Reprint: Towards a Socialist Polynesia (Owen Gager, pamphlet, 1982)
I’ve decided to reprint this now obscure essay by Owen Gager partly because I’ve seen it referenced on numerous occasions (it seems to have made some waves at the time) and partly because I see very few attempts at such… Continue reading
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Drowning in a Shallow Cesspit
What a thoroughly abhorrent swamp the parliamentary left presently is. Nothing, it would seem, is safe from opportunistic reaction (though to be fair I never really doubted this to be the case). Over the past few weeks a certain level… Continue reading
Notes South from Nowhere 