‘Left’ critics of the Labour Party after 1919
Harry Holland’s general political course, from the time of the 1913 defeat on the waterfront, was one of ‘bending to the right’ to accommodate the Liberal politics of the […]
Category Archives: strikes
The mixed blessing of IWW influence in the New Zealand labour movement
The stirring Preamble adopted by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in Chicago in 1905, proclaiming the class struggle and the goal of overthrowing the capitalists, became the rallying […]
The ‘white hope’ and the first alliance between Māori and the working class
Second of two parts. The first part, “Half-caste Maori” strikebreakers at Waihi and Huntly, is here. After the mine re-opened on October 2, the number of police, strikebreakers and thugs brought […]
“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 […]
“You cannot make the uneducated see the anti-working-class attitude of the Labor Party by giving that party Socialist support”
Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand, Part 14 Now that the Labor Party held the government benches in both the State of New South […]
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 […]
Carrying coals to Newcastle – “organised scabbery” against the New South Wales miners
Twelfth part of Harry Holland the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand The battle of Broken Hill had ended with the Australian capitalist class unable to deliver the […]
The Sydney Rockchoppers and the health benefits of striking
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 […]
The coal lumpers’ strike and the rapid growth of revolutionary socialism
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 […]
The muddy waters of early Australian socialism
Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand, Part 4. For earlier parts, click on links for Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 As depression conditions deepened and […]
