Why then are some supporters of the Palestinian struggle so keen to use the ‘Apartheid State’ designation for Israel? Because the word Apartheid confers on Israel the status of pariah state – to be boycotted, sanctioned etc in the same way that the actual apartheid state was.
A nationwide one-day strike by 50,000 teachers in both the primary and secondary sectors took place in New Zealand on 29 May. It was the first time in the history […]
Eleventh part of Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand The situation at Broken Hill had come close to disaster in early January. However, bloodshed […]
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 […]
On 4 October Holland arrived in Broken Hill; the same night he addressed a meeting of over 2,000 at the Hippodrome – in a town whose entire population was only […]
Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand – Part 8 Holland and the Socialist Federation immediately threw themselves into four key industrial battles which, over […]
If you have a Facebook account, your newsfeed has no doubt been filled over the past few days with #metoo posts by your female friends and family members, solidarising with […]
Renée Gerlich is a feminist and blogger living in Wellington, New Zealand. She holds that New Zealand was wrong for decriminalising pimps and punters along with prostituted persons in the […]
The recent terrorist atrocity in Paris, like that of ten months earlier, has produced a range of political responses. First off the mark were the imperialist politicians. Instantly sensing an […]
Christmas Island, which lies in the Indian Ocean closer to Java than to the Australian mainland, is a non-self-governing Australian territory. It has a population of about 2,000 permanent residents […]
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