Lenin on the imperialist stage of capitalism
Part 2 of China in the age of American decrepitude Empires and imperialism in a general sense have existed for at least two thousand years, since the time of the […]
Category Archives: militarism
Trump, Greenland, China, and the unenviable predicament of the minor imperialist powers
US President Donald Trump’s public bid to purchase Greenland from its present ‘owner’, the Kingdom of Denmark, has been universally derided as a bad joke. In the words of the […]
An early New Zealand rightist movement built on religious hatreds
While Alliance of Labour leader Arthur Cook lent his support to the Communist Party, another leader of the Alliance of Labour, its President Matthew Joseph Mack, was embracing a different […]
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 […]
Brass-band jingoism at the opening of the Great War
The Great War did not arrive unannounced; far from it. Since at least 1907 the socialist movement had been urgently warning of the dangers of a war between the great […]
When the countryside marched on the town: Massey’s Cossacks in 1913
[Second of three articles on workers and farmers in 1913] Both the Red Fed leadership and the IWW in Auckland proved unable to recognise the significance of the coming to […]
The other exploited producers – origins of the class of working farmers in New Zealand
(First of three articles on workers and farmers in 1913 New Zealand. Long-time readers of this blog may notice that this article overlaps substantially with a post from 2015 entitled […]
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, […]
A worker at large 