In April last year, police and Ministry of Health officials raided the home and workshop of Claire Wihongi-Matene, and charged her with claiming to be a health practitioner and six […]
At first glance, the discussion at the Unity conference in January 1913 seems to be about an uninteresting question of organisational forms. The leaders of the United Labor Party (ULP) […]
Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand, Part 6 As the general strike movement in Russia grew over the northern summer of 1905, the Founding […]
The newborn working class in New Zealand took its first breath in the upsurge of union organising and the 1890 maritime strike, which was both the culmination of that upsurge […]
The modern proletariat is a propertyless class. Evicted from the land, dispossessed of the means of life, the proletarians are thereby compelled, under threat of starvation, to sell their labour-power […]
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 […]
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 […]
My first and best lesson in industrial safety happened in 1978, a few weeks after I started work on the production line at the Ford car assembly plant in Wellington […]
By their own admission, a gang of young men in Auckland calling themselves the ‘Roast Busters’ has, over a period of several years, engaged in stupefying girls as young as […]
My recently-published novel, The Chain, is set in the freezing works (meatpacking plants) of the Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, in the 1980s, and draws on my experiences when I spent […]
A worker at large 