Harry Holland’s wartime political default
In late April 1915 the first major military engagement involving New Zealand troops took place on the shores of Turkey: a bid to open the Dardanelles Strait to allied shipping […]
Category Archives: Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia, Kurdistan, and the power of a single revolutionary idea
In 1941 the situation facing the workers and peasants of Yugoslavia could hardly have seemed more bleak. At the western extremity of the Ottoman empire at the opening of the […]
A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistical philistines
The period of the Liberal government in New Zealand from 1890 to 1912, was one of unprecedented general prosperity – in comparison with the rest of the world – the […]
Was the D-day invasion part of the struggle against fascism in Europe? A discussion
The outpouring of hypocritical blather from imperialist politicians in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the D-day invasion of Normandy by US, Canadian and British troops in June 1944 was […]
The tragedy in Odessa
The tragedy in Odessa and the inexorable logic towards fratricidal war in Ukraine – a discussion Reprinted below is a statement entitled “No-one wants to die” by Ilya Budraitskis, published in […]
Balkans 1996
I often have reason to complain about Facebook, but sometimes it ‘works’ so well, the way nothing in the past ever did, and I am grateful for it. A short […]
A worker at large 