Union Leaders and Marxists Meet in Auckland
Matt McCarten, John Minto and Socialist Worker are hosting a “Workers Charter” meeting this Saturday in Auckland. The Workers Charter Movement is the embryo of…
Web of Treason 2, Ian Milner…Traitor?
Another Institute of Pacific Relations activist in Wellington and associate of Sutch and McIntosh, was was Ian Milner. Born in 1911, Milner was the son…
T.O.S.A.S. 8, Sydney Mufamadi
My eighth “Top Operatives of South African Socialism” profile looks at South African Minister of Provincial and Local Government, Sydney Mufamadi. Fholisani Sydney Mufamadi was…
One Step Backwards, Two Steps Forwards?
Nick Kelly of the Marxist-Leninist, Workers Party has lost the Victoria University Students Association presidency race to Young Labour exec member, Geoff Hayward, by 313…
Stephen Franks on the Sutch Verdict
Lawyer and former ACT MP, Stephen Franks, posted this interesting insight on the Sutch verdict on David Farrar’s Kiwi Blog yesterday. “Was Sutch Guilty? I…
Web of Treason 1, Sutch and McIntosh
Since the “fall” of the Soviet Union in 1991 Western historians and researchers have had some access to Soviet intelligence files. Coupled with released information…
Sutch and the Web of Treason
A new book by former Security Intelligence Service officer, Kit Bennetts has re-ignited the controversy about NZ’s biggest espionage scandal, the 1974 trial of former…
W.A.Y.N.C.R? Number 15 , Daphne Lawless
My latest, “Where Are You Now Campus Radical?” profile looks at Daphne Lawless. Lawless studied literature at Victoria University in the early 00s. She was…
Why Chris Trotter Just Doesn’t Get It
I like Chris Trotter. I know he’s a commie, but he’s a smart cookie, very perceptive and clearly makes an effort to understand his opposition….
Fun-demental
While we’re on the subject of fundamentalist Christian sects; Question What goes Clip Clop Clip Clop Clip Clop Bang Bang Clip Clop Clip Clop? Answer…
Bob the Builder Bats for Brethren
Tauranga National MP, Bob “the Builder” Clarkson says what he thinks of the Exclusive Brethren. “Mr Clarkson, who took the Tauranga seat from Winston Peters,…
T.O.S.A.S. 7 Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi
My seventh “Top Operatives of South African Socialism” profile looks at South African Minister of Public Service and Administration, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi. Fraser-Moleketi was born in…
Chavez Sets the World Right
I haven’t commented on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’ recent speech to the United Nations yet. I think this article from the Communist Party of Australia’s…
Australian Communists Hail NDU "Victory"
This is how the Communist Party of Australia views the recentProgressive Enterprises “lockout“. Further evidence that Progressive were facing communist controlled unions on both sides…
The Comrades Write Back
I’ve had a couple of private emails since my recent posts on NZ’s “mainstream” communist party, the Socialist Party of Aotearoa. The first came from…
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