US novelist Lionel Shriver ruffled a few feathers – to put it mildly – when she spoke at the Brisbane Writers Festival in September. Shriver took aim at ‘identity politics’ […]
“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 […]
When Northland Maori leader Sonny Tau was found to have in his possession the bodies of five protected kereru (the large native pigeon, also known as kukupa) as he boarded […]
The modern proletariat is a propertyless class. Evicted from the land, dispossessed of the means of life, the proletarians are thereby compelled, under threat of starvation, to sell their labour-power […]
Last part of “Once Were Communists,” a series of four articles by Terry Coggan The last article in this series argued that the system of Maori communal production could not be reorientated […]
Part Three of “Once Were Communists,” a series of four articles by Terry Coggan It is a “guiding principle” of Marx’s historical materialism that “at a certain stage of development, […]
Part Two of “Once Were Communists,” a series of four articles by Terry Coggan If we take the society of the Iroquois Indians of North America studied by Lewis Morgan, […]
Note from James Robb: The next four posts in this blog will be a series of articles on primitive communism in New Zealand by Terry Coggan, a longtime member of the communist […]
On some of the wild sandy beaches of the West Coast of New Zealand, pounded by the surf rolling in from the Tasman Sea, there live (or rather, used to […]
While in 1914 the political appeal of “King and country” was comparatively weak among workers in Australasia, the social basis of national chauvinism was highly developed. The split in the […]
