Harry Holland’s wartime political default
In late April 1915 the first major military engagement involving New Zealand troops took place on the shores of Turkey: a bid to open the Dardanelles Strait to allied shipping […]
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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 […]
Conscription and the threat of military strike-breaking
Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand, Part 15 In early 1911 a rebellion broke out against the corrupt and abject Sultan of Morocco. France, […]
“You cannot make the uneducated see the anti-working-class attitude of the Labor Party by giving that party Socialist support”
Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand, Part 14 Now that the Labor Party held the government benches in both the State of New South […]
The coal lumpers’ strike and the rapid growth of revolutionary socialism
Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand – Part 8 Holland and the Socialist Federation immediately threw themselves into four key industrial battles which, over […]
Workers, farmers and war: New Zealand in 1914
Of all the questions confronting the working class in New Zealand in the decade beginning 1912, as it set itself on a course toward political independence, none was more decisive […]
Why the founding of the Labour Party was a historic advance
“The first great step of importance for every country newly entering into the [working class] movement is always the constitution of the workers as an independent political party, no matter […]
Conspiracies, exposés, and revolutionary morality – a discussion in 140 characters
When I published a post critical of Nicky Hager’s book, Dirty Politics – How attack politics is poisoning New Zealand’s political environment last week, it prompted an exchange on Twitter […]
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 […]
Harry Holland and the question of Chinese immigration
The rise of the class-struggle wing of the labour movement in New Zealand in the decade from 1907 was rapid, spectacular – and well-documented. Beginning with the first challenge to […]
