The muddy waters of early Australian socialism
Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand, Part 4. For earlier parts, click on links for Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 As depression conditions deepened and […]
Category Archives: freedom of speech
The death of the revolution in China and its re-birth – told in a brilliant new novel
The generation of workers and peasants who made the Chinese revolution in the course of the bitter fight against Japanese occupation in the 1940s has largely passed away. So have […]
How to defend democratic rights and political space – case study of a political victory
Renée Gerlich is a feminist and blogger living in Wellington, New Zealand. She holds that New Zealand was wrong for decriminalising pimps and punters along with prostituted persons in the […]
Why ‘Vaxxed’ gets a hearing (and why the defence of vaccination can’t be left to doctors)
I watched the movie Vaxxed – from Cover-up to Catastrophe recently. It has been generating a great deal of excitement and controversy as it does the rounds in New Zealand. […]
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, […]
India’s daughter – a window on social changes in India
India’s daughter tells the story of the brutal gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh, a call-centre worker and recently-graduated medical student, in Delhi, India, in December 2012, and the […]
Acting in the true Anzac spirit
On Anzac Day, militarism dresses up in the mask of pacifism. It honours the sacrifices made by the soldiers of the Great War, gives due recognition to the horrors they […]
The politics of “Dirty Politics”: three aspects of the election campaign in New Zealand.
To begin with the numbers: In the general election held in New Zealand yesterday, the National Party government was returned for a third term with a slightly increased majority. Of […]
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 […]
Coerced confessions and fightbacks: the new norms of bourgeois ‘justice’
A few days ago the Central Park Five, a group of five young Black men who were framed up for the rape and assault of a jogger in New York’s […]
