A witch-hunt devastates the Auckland art world
If the artists responsible for the Mercy Pictures exhibition “People of Colour” were setting out to shock and provoke, they certainly succeeded. The show, which recently closed in Auckland, was […]
Category Archives: fascism
A victory for whom?
Self-congratulation was the order of the day on the Auckland left, after Canadian rightists Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern were forced to cancel their speaking event on Friday 3 August. […]
The Twitter Bonaparte casts a shadow: two articles on Bonapartism
Part 1: the second Bonaparte (and the first) In 1848 the continent of Europe was engulfed in the flames of revolution. Absolute monarchies, princes and dukes were overthrown in Denmark, […]
The difficult birth of independent Mongolia
“Let every Mongolian, Russian, Tibetan, and Chinese person know that we have heard that the Chinese have revolted against the Manchu and the Qing empire is presently in collapse. Mongolia […]
Shanghai and the holocaust
Jewish communities have existed in China for at least a thousand years, since they arrived as traders along the silk road. The European explorer Marco Polo, visiting Beijing in the […]
The agony of Ukraine: Anatoli Kuznetsov’s Babi Yar
One of the many incredible things about the book Babi Yar, by Anatoli Kuznetsov, is that it exists at all – that its writer survived the experiences he describes, that […]
Voyage of the Damned: imperialist governments attempt to explain why refugees should be left to die
The refugee crisis confronting Europe today (as with earlier ones along the Mexican-US border and in the Indian Ocean) reminds us that the malaise spreading across the globe is not […]
Yugoslavia, Kurdistan, and the power of a single revolutionary idea
In 1941 the situation facing the workers and peasants of Yugoslavia could hardly have seemed more bleak. At the western extremity of the Ottoman empire at the opening of the […]
The Internet-Mana Party steps boldly into the swamp
With a general election to be held in New Zealand on September 20, excitement is building in some quarters, nowhere more so than among supporters of the new Internet–Mana Party […]
Palestinian solidarity strengthened, Hamas influence weakened
No one who took part in the rally and march in Auckland July 19 in solidarity with the people of Gaza against the murderous Israeli assault could fail to be […]
A communist at large 