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The virus and capitalist society – Part 2 Of all the capitalist governments attempting to emulate the Wuhan model of lockdown to combat the Covid-19 virus, New Zealand has fared […]
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The virus and capitalist society
Is anything good likely to come of this pandemic? I have seen reports of reduction in air pollution over China, and less-than-truthful pictures of clear water and dolphins in the […]
Ghost houses and the spectre of communism
In late January, the Labour Party mayor of Auckland, Phil Goff, made a bizarre, shocking proposal: Given that there is a housing crisis in the city, with thousands of people […]
Climate change, climate hysteria, and the Sky City fire
Climate change is real, and so is climate hysteria. Anthropogenic climate change is generated by emissions of carbon dioxide (and some other gases) through human economic activity, mostly by the […]
Was New Zealand’s participation in the Second World War avoidable?
A Review of Phoney Wars: New Zealand Society in the Second World War, by Stevan Eldred-Grigg, with Hugh Eldred-Grigg. A guest post by Terry Coggan. World War Two is seen […]
The profound political implications of Ihumātao
The most important shift in New Zealand politics in almost three decades was registered last month, when a long-simmering Māori land occupation at Ihumātao erupted into a mass struggle. In […]
Land, labour, and epidemic diseases – two articles on capitalist penetration of the Pacific
When the deadly epidemic of influenza swept the world in the months following the end of the Great War of 1914-18, the toll it took in the Pacific Islands was […]
Teachers in New Zealand take a step towards West Virginia, and ponder their next move
A nationwide one-day strike by 50,000 teachers in both the primary and secondary sectors took place in New Zealand on 29 May. It was the first time in the history […]
‘Left’ critics of the Labour Party after 1919
Harry Holland’s general political course, from the time of the 1913 defeat on the waterfront, was one of ‘bending to the right’ to accommodate the Liberal politics of the […]
Brass-band jingoism at the opening of the Great War
The Great War did not arrive unannounced; far from it. Since at least 1907 the socialist movement had been urgently warning of the dangers of a war between the great […]
