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Monthly Archives: April 2014

The Mana Party in the blind alley of electoralism

April 27, 2014by James Robb 12 Comments

Almost the entire left in New Zealand has been giving electoral support to the Mana Party in recent years (and by ‘the left’ I mean groups and individuals who speak […]

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capitalist state, class collaboration, class struggle, electoralism, Harry Holland, imperialist war, Labour Party, Maori struggle, New Zealand history, Russian revolution, unions, working class

Balkans 1996

April 20, 2014by James Robb 1 Comment

I often have reason to complain about Facebook, but sometimes it ‘works’ so well, the way nothing in the past ever did, and I am grateful for it. A short […]

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Albania, Bosnia, capitalist state, class struggle, education, imperialist war, national self-determination, revolution, solidarity, Stalinism, working class, Yugoslavia

Abortion rights and a nasty little smear

April 14, 2014by James Robb 2 Comments

Last Friday the New Zealand Herald reported that an unnamed rural GP (doctor) has had her practising certificate suspended for six months for the ‘crime’ of prescribing the drug Misoprostol […]

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abortion, capitalist state, class struggle, democratic rights, Labour Party, morality, New Zealand history, police, Stalinism, trade unions, women's equality, working class

National myth-making – and a new antidote  

April 10, 2014by James Robb 7 Comments

April is the month when national myth-making goes into high gear in Australia and New Zealand. It was on 25 April 1915 that a combined Australian–New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) […]

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anti-Semitism, Australia history, capitalist state, class struggle, education, imperialist war, Ireland history, Maori struggle, New Zealand history, Russian revolution, unions, working class history

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