The untold history of armistice and the end of World War I
Submitted by Jared on Nov 10 2018 04:20
‘The best antidote to ideology is detail,’ writes Paul Mason. And the detail that’s missing this Armistice Day is that working people, when they take power into their own hands, can end whatever catastrophe is imposed on them.
Black Flag 237 (2015)
The last of the titles from the 2007-15 Black Flag collective looked at a brief wave of squatting in the capital and took an in-depth look at the then-somnolent Parliamentary scene before the rise of Corbynism. A direct action bent saw it pick over the rise and fall of the animal rights movement, and consider how the Trade Union Bill could potentially be resisted.
Lines of Work: Stories of Jobs and Resistance (review)
By Scott Nikolas Nappalos, ed. (Alberta, Canada: Black Cat Press, 2013). Review by Jared Davidson, first published in LHP Bulletin 64.
Wobbly driplines: strikes, stowaways & the SS Manuka
Submitted by Jared on Apr 14 2015 08:28
Built in 1903 and wrecked off New Zealand’s southern coast in 1929, the Manuka was a floating fragment of class society—and of class warfare. This article uses the Manuka to tell the wider story of syndicalism, transnationalism, anti-militarism, and the IWW in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Fighting war
Submitted by Jared on May 7 2014 07:59
NOTE: this has now been edited and released as a new pamphlet by Rebel Press (April 2016)
This article highlighted the anti-war agitation of anarchists and the IWW based in New Zealand during the period before, during and after the First World War.
Reds and Wobblies: working-class radicalism and the state in New Zealand 1915-1925
Submitted by kropotcorn on Oct 23 2013 02:23
Talk presented at the National Library of New Zealand, 22 October 2013, by Jared Davidson about New Zealand's radical history. More images are available here.
Sewing freedom: Philip Josephs, transnationalism & early New Zealand anarchism - Jared Davidson
Sewing Freedom is the first in-depth study of anarchism in New Zealand during the turbulent years of the early 20th century—a time of wildcat strikes, industrial warfare, and a radical working class counter-culture.
Trunk, Johann Sebastian, 1850-1933
Submitted by kropotcorn on Sep 20 2013 05:21
Short biography of transnational anarchist Johann Sebastian Trunk, by Jared Davidson.
100 years of anarchism in New Zealand celebrated today
Submitted by kropotcorn on Jul 8 2013 23:19
100 years ago today, 9 July, the Freedom Group was formed in Wellington, New Zealand.
Socialist cross of honor: markings of a working class counter-culture
Submitted by kropotcorn on Dec 22 2012 20:37
Short article on the Socialist Cross of Honor, a medal produced by the New Zealand Socialist Party in 1911. The now rare medal was given to anti-militarists jailed for resisting conscription, and played a pivotal role in fostering a radical working class counter-culture. Reproduced from LHP Newsletter 55.
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