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 […]
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“Timid souls” and fighting proletarians: the Syrian refugees force a political shift
The tide of Syrian refugees sweeping into Europe today is like a fresh breeze blowing into a stuffy, crowded room. The breeze makes the curtains flap noisily, dislodges cobwebs from […]
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 […]
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 […]
The rise of a New Zealand Empire in the Pacific
Within less than a month of joining the war against Germany in 1914, New Zealand had seized its first colonial conquest from Germany. On August 29 1914 troops from the […]
Was the D-day invasion part of the struggle against fascism in Europe? A discussion
The outpouring of hypocritical blather from imperialist politicians in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the D-day invasion of Normandy by US, Canadian and British troops in June 1944 was […]
‘Defence of the Fatherland’ in the Australasian Dominions
On 4 August 1914, as the guns of the First Imperialist World War began sounding, the Socialist International shattered into a thousand fragments. The International had been built through sustained […]
The shocking events of August 1914
One thing you will not find in the contemporary writings marking the centenary of the beginning of the Great War is a satisfactory explanation of the causes of that war. […]
A communist at large 