Toppling statues, censorship, and erasing history
The first brass head has toppled in New Zealand. On 12 June the Hamilton City Council removed a statue of… Hamilton! British naval Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton, veteran of […]
Category Archives: North America
Land, labour, and epidemic diseases – two articles on capitalist penetration of the Pacific
When the deadly epidemic of influenza swept the world in the months following the end of the Great War of 1914-18, the toll it took in the Pacific Islands was […]
Down and out in Sydney and Newcastle
Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand, Part 3. For earlier parts, click on links for Part 1 and Part 2 Harry Holland’s new job […]
The socialism of mining villages, lumber camps and company towns
The capitalist mode of production comes into existence by uprooting people from the land and drawing them into urban industrial concentrations. Great industrial cities are a characteristic feature of capitalism, […]
Going the way of the Dodo: four pigeons, three extinctions, and te Tiriti o Waitangi
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 […]
Workers who stood for King and Country in 1914
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 […]
The Sensible Sentencing Trust and the art of portraiture
The opinions of the Sensible Sentencing Trust feature prominently in the news yet again. This time the big-business media are turning to their favourite advocacy group to solicit their opinions […]
Human beings and animal extinction
When European settlers began exploring North America from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, they found a land teeming with wildlife that were possible sources of food – from the […]
A worker at large 