Name and prosecute the cops who killed Shargin Stephens!
It is now six years since the police tormented Rotorua man Shargin Stephens day and night for more than a month with incessant and utterly unjustified ‘bail checks,’ and then, […]
Category Archives: capitalist justice
Arthur Thomas, the presumption of innocence, and the dangers of name suppression
If anyone is entitled to the presumption of innocence today, it is Arthur Allan Thomas. In 1971, and again at a re-trial in 1973, Thomas, a Waikato dairy farmer, was […]
Child welfare in the age of capitalist decay – a glimpse of New Zealand’s stolen generation
[Note: this post was updated on 24 June with comments on the obfuscatory character of the term ‘domestic violence,’ and on the source of Oranga Tamariki’s tendency to act on […]
The Kavanaugh appointment – the crisis of bourgeois rule in the United States spreads to engulf another institution
Two years ago, Donald Trump won the Republican nomination, and then the Presidency of the United States, against all expectations. It was an unmistakable sign of the crisis gripping the […]
Fighting Conscription – Holland’s last battle in Australia
Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand – Part 16 Roy Holland was Harry’s third son. He was 16 years old when in July 1911 […]
Carrying coals to Newcastle – “organised scabbery” against the New South Wales miners
Twelfth part of Harry Holland the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand The battle of Broken Hill had ended with the Australian capitalist class unable to deliver the […]
Frame-ups for rioting and sedition, and victimisations: the Battle of Broken Hill ends
Eleventh part of Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand The situation at Broken Hill had come close to disaster in early January. However, bloodshed […]
The Sydney Rockchoppers and the health benefits of striking
On 4 October Holland arrived in Broken Hill; the same night he addressed a meeting of over 2,000 at the Hippodrome – in a town whose entire population was only […]
No escape from the death-trap
The first victim of the horrific fire in Grenfell Tower in London to be named was Mohammad al-Hajali, a 23-year-old civil engineering students and Syrian refugee. Three years ago, Mohammad […]
Australia’s Guantanamo: the ever-widening consequences of stripping away the right to asylum
Christmas Island, which lies in the Indian Ocean closer to Java than to the Australian mainland, is a non-self-governing Australian territory. It has a population of about 2,000 permanent residents […]
A worker at large 