(Note: In quoting historic documents, I have not attempted to modernise their Anglicised spelling and usage of Māori words, offensive as some of these things may seem today. The English […]
Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand, Part 13 The defeat of the miners’ strike ended the forward momentum of the working class that had […]
Tenth part of Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand The ore miners at the Barrier were central to the Australian economy and thus wielded […]
Harry Holland and the labour movement in Australasia Part 1 In the year 1890, a mass strike erupted that eventually involved sixty thousand waterside workers, seafarers, miners, shearers and rail workers […]
On Anzac Day, militarism dresses up in the mask of pacifism. It honours the sacrifices made by the soldiers of the Great War, gives due recognition to the horrors they […]
12 September marks the hundredth anniversary of the second-deadliest single mine disaster in New Zealand history. On that day in 1914, an explosion ripped through the Ralph coal mine in […]
A few days ago the Central Park Five, a group of five young Black men who were framed up for the rape and assault of a jogger in New York’s […]
Last Friday the New Zealand Herald reported that an unnamed rural GP (doctor) has had her practising certificate suspended for six months for the ‘crime’ of prescribing the drug Misoprostol […]
The capitalist crisis runs especially deep in the United States, and has many ramifications. Sometimes a news story appears which demonstrates this better than a thousand graphs and statistics. In […]
Three weeks ago, the ‘Roastbusters’ revelations initiated a public outcry and an intense discussion of an issue of vital importance to the working class – the second-class status of women, […]
