Fisking Marxist Matt McCarten
I couldn’t let this piece in todays Herald on Sunday, by Marxist Matt McCarten, go by without a good fisking. Below are some excerpts, with…
W.A.Y.N.C.R.? Number 6, Bob Rigg
Some older readers might remember my sixth Where Are You Now, Campus Radical? profile subject, Bob Rigg, from Victoria Uni in the mid ’60s (he…
More Communists Than Ever?
This is a point of view you’ll never see in the main stream media. Sobering and almost certainly true. Peter Symon, general secretary of the…
The World’s Most Expensive Escargot?
ACT MP Heather Roy, puts things in perspective. Yesterday, Conservation Minister Chris Carter approved the relocation of 250 Powelliphanta Augustus snails to a new home,…
Delahunty Spills Her Guts on Kotare School, Part 1
I like nothing better than quoting socialists own words back at them. Below are excerpts from a speech made in Sydney by Catherine Delahunty taken…
Catherine Delahunty- Red/Green Schoolmarm
The Kotare School’s Education co-ordinator/tutor is Catherine Delahunty. In the role since 1999, Delahunty’s role involves teaching, running workshops and helping to arrange the many…
Who Runs the Kotare Trust?
The trustees of the Kotare School are an interesting mix of “former” communists, socialist academics, “community workers” and the radical religious. Here is a list…
Small Minority Forces Big Backdown
The French government has backed away from planned labour law reform that would have made hiring and firing young workers more flexible. Despite the legislation…
Peru-Next Socialist Victory in Latin America?
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,…
Where is Kotare School?
According to the Kotare Trust website, the school is situated at 510 Wayby Station Rd, Hoteo North, Wellsford. Aotearoa / New Zealand. Wellsford is halfway…
How the Kotare School Was Conceived and Why
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…
Sue Bradford, Nice Lady, Shame About the Politics, Part 5 (Final)
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…
Paolo Friere and Myles Horton
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…
Who Was Paolo Freire?
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…
What’s Bloody Loudon on About?
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…
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