Trevor Loudon's New Zeal Blog

Irish republicanism has long been an undercurrent in NZ politics. Thousands of Irishmen, many of them Fenians, flocked to NZ during the gold rushes of…

After decades of political struggle and considerable bloodshed, Sinn Fein is about to play a significant role in the new government of Northern Ireland. It…

From Islamic Republic News Agency Iran Minister of Defense and Armed Forces’ Logistics General Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar said here Sunday that the least violation of Iran’s…

However strongly you feel about whaling, there is no excuse for this kind of dangerous criminality on the high seas. From Indymedia 9/9/07 The Sea…

Some “sensible” Marxism-Leninism from 2006 Vitoria Uni Students Association president and Workers Party member, Nick Kelly. From the latest Spark Spark Is is correct for…

From Sunday Star/Times A Chinese man, linked to his country’s secret service, has been remanded in custody in an Auckland jail and is being represented…

A while ago I posted on the of the giant anti Iraq War rally in Washington on 27th january. Now another major communist organisation, the…

I have been opposed to the invasion of Iraq from the beginning, for several reasons. Most of my opposition was moral, but I also doubted…

The extremely “politically correct” National Certificate of Educational Achievement qualification system, has been widely criticised for lowering standards in education. This attack came from someone…

The 1978 SUP/Nga Tamatoa trip to Cuba, was not the only event that year to have far reaching implications for NZ racial politics. The old…

The great 1980’s film “Red Dawn” portrayed a Soviet/Cuban/Nicaraguan surprise attack on the US. In the movie, several large US cities were nuked, while Soviet…

Are we back in the “Cold War”, or what? From Islamic Republic News Agency Secretary of Russian National Security Council Igor Ivanov said on Thursday…

The New Zealand fostering system is grossly overloaded. There are three main reasons for this; Firstly, most foster kids come from the “underclass“. The “underclass”…

A few days ago I posted on the subject of adoption. This a subject I have some experience with as my wife and I have…

Back in the the ’70s and ’80s many members of the NZ Socialist Unity Party trained at Lenin’s Institute for Higher Learning (aka the Institite…