‘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 […]
Category Archives: Labour Party
Catastrophe in Germany, disorientation in New Zealand
“We come into this House as representatives of the working-men in certain electorates of the Dominion, and we come to state not our views alone, but the views of the […]
Shockwaves of the October revolution reach New Zealand
In March 1917, just as the New Zealand military campaign in Europe was getting bogged down both militarily and politically, a popular uprising overthrew the czar of Russia. For three […]
The success and failure of Harry Holland’s campaign against conscription
The initial purpose of the anti-German campaign following the sinking of the Lusitania was to boost flagging recruitment to the army. After an initial burst of enthusiasm, recruitment had dwindled […]
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 […]
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 […]
