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Inspirational:  The Family of Man  is a glorious hymn to human equality, but, more than that, it is a clarion call to human freedom. Because...

Reigning But Not Ruling: Republics are generally a people’s political response to a sovereign who has ruled them badly. Oliver Cromwell famo...

FROM THE SAME box of old papers I wrote about last week comes another set of lyrics. This time for The Void – a song composed in 1974 when ...

Metropolis   George Grosz  1918 A FEW HOURS AGO, I was sorting through a box of old papers when I came across these lyrics to a song I’d com...

Pythonesque: No more than the wokest of the Woke, is the Marxist Left happy to join their efforts with those of other leftists in a spirit ...

Comrades In Arms: Counterfactual history is nothing if not entertaining. Matt McCarten and I have often wondered what would have happened if...

MARVIN HUBBARD , US citizen by birth, New Zealand citizen by choice, Quaker and left-wing activist, has been broadcasting his show, "Co...

           Let’s do this      Let’s keep moving      I We are the hollow persons Inflated with hot air Hanging together For fear of hanging ...

Social Distancing: Student protesters make their way carefully around the working class. Dunedin 1994. Photo Otago Daily Times . IT WA...

The Singer And His Song: Is it possible to judge a work of art purely on its own merits? Can we truly set aside what we know about the a...

The When And The How: Chris Trotter reads Marx in the Art Room of Heretaunga College, Upper Hutt, circa 1973. IN A RADIO INTERVIEW ,...

“And those conversations continued in the newspapers, on the local radio and television stations, on the stage of the playhouse, in the ...

“It was twenty years ago today,” according to the famous Beatles’ track, that “Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play”. Unfortunately,...

Standing Up For Democratic Socialism: In the present political climate, speaking up for the Left’s core principles and the protection o...

A Simple Message: All I am asking from those who wish to participate in this blog is a modicum of self-discipline and a generous helping...