Month: April 2006

From Green Left Weekly Peru will go to the polls on April 9 in a hotly contested presidential race. Leading pre-election polls is Ollanta Humala,…

According to the Kotare Trust website, the school is situated at 510 Wayby Station Rd, Hoteo North, Wellsford. Aotearoa / New Zealand. Wellsford is halfway…

Below is verbatim article from “Common Ground”, March 1995, newsletter of Sue Bradford’s, People’s Network. The article is unsigned, but “Sue and Karen” of the…

Although as late as 2001, Sue Bradford was yearning for a “true Internationale, one which has the hope of achieving world-wide revolutionary change“, you won’t…

Two of the great Marxist educators of the 20th Century, Myles Horton and Paolo Freire, admired each others work. In 1990 they collaborated on a…

Paulo Freire was one of the most influential educators of the 20th century. Born in 1921 in Recife Brazil, Freire attended University there and became…

Why are you devoting large amounts of column space to a leftist school in Tennessee, when there are so many burning issues in NZ? Because…

When Rosa Parks died last year, the whole world re-heard the story of the woman who sparked the US “Civil Rights” movement. This is the…

The Highlander Folk School was constantly under attack for its alleged communist affiliations, teachings and personnel. The attacks were of course entirely justified. The famous…

Excerpts from an adapted obituary, New York Times January 1990 Myles Horton was born in 1905, in Savannah, Tennessee. He entered Cumberland College in Tennessee…

Here are excerpts on the history of the Highlander School from their website. “Highlander was created in 1932 by Myles Horton and Don West in…

The Highlander Reasearch and Education Center is an iconic institution of the American Left According to their website The Highlander Center is a residential popular…

Please bear with me. The next series of posts may seem a bit obscure. It’ll all make sense in the end.

By the mid ’90s, Sue Bradford was firmly committed to a new project. This was “People’s Network”, the culmination of her earlier “Building Our Own…