A book that changed the course of the class struggle
After a six-month strike, the struggle at Waihi came to a head in early November 1912, shortly after the arrival in Waihi of the Commissioner of Police John Cullen, a […]
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“Half-caste Maori” strikebreakers at Waihi and Huntly (First of two parts)
(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 […]
Capitalism’s Trail of Blood: The Fight for Safety on the Job
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 […]
Arbitration or Mobilisation: the Battle of Broken Hill begins
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 […]
The nineteenth-century police state in New South Wales
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 […]
Acting in the true Anzac spirit
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 […]
Deaths in the coal mines and union-busting: 100 years ago in Huntly …and today
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 […]
Coerced confessions and fightbacks: the new norms of bourgeois ‘justice’
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 […]
Abortion rights and a nasty little smear
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 […]
How the ruling class sees us
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 […]
