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Anarcho-Syndicalist Speaking Tour
Wow – this doesn’t happen very often! A comrade from the Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation in Australia is visiting Aotearoa and doing a speaking tour with five public meetings across the country. Very exciting! Here are all the details: Auckland – 3rd November … Continue reading
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A tear for a boxthorn hedge
Boxthorn. Introduced to Aotearoa / New Zealand from South Africa some time in the early 1870s and not long after was brought to Taranaki where it was used for hedges on sheep and dairy farms. In Africa, it was used … Continue reading
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Social Ecology Online Seminar: Oct. 8-Nov. 26
There is another online course with the Institute for Social Ecology. They call it a ‘fall course’ but obviously it is spring in the Southern Hemisphere 🙂 More details here: http://social-ecology.org/wp/2018/09/fall-social-ecology-online-seminar-oct-8-nov-26/ Enroll today for the fall session of the Institute for Social … Continue reading
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AARGH Issue 9 is online
Our comrades from The Freedom Shop collective in Wellington have published Issue 9 of their magazine in May. The Aotearoa Anarchist Review can be downloaded as a PDF here. Articles in this issue look back at the anti-capitalist movement of the late … Continue reading
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It feels like everyday life under the revolution: Growing a new world in Rojava.
Matt Broomfield and Tolhildan of The Internationalist Commune of Rojava discuss the daily work of ecological and social revolution – from restoring the health of liberated lands, to learning new ways of living and working together. Matt wrote the op-ed … Continue reading
Here’s why we’re planting trees in northern Syria
This land was liberated from Bashar Al-Assad and Isis. Now we need help to keep it alive. By Matt Broomfield, a member of the Internationalist Commune of Rojava (first published here) “Thirty years ago this region was filled with trees,” Adin … Continue reading
Crop Swap – Toha atu toha mai
an ethics based on sharing and cooperation – that’s Communalism in a nutshell. A beautiful manifestation of sharing with each other is the Crop Swap movement that’s currently taking Aotearoa by storm. What started in 2014 in suburban New Plymouth … Continue reading
Happy May Day!?!
The origins of May Day are still well known for those of us on the revolutionary Left. For a brief refresher: In 1887 four Chicago anarchists were executed. A fifth cheated the hangman by killing himself in prison. Three more … Continue reading
The Last Stop
By Pete Recently, I went for a run in West Auckland, in Kumeu to be precise. I try and go for a run once a week to calm my mind. Just a few kilometres to get the heart going and … Continue reading
The ZAD Becomes Compost: LONG LIVE THE ZAD (Zone a Defendre)!
By Beverly Naidus – repost from the Institute for Social Ecology When something you have witnessed, loved and cared for is destroyed and uprooted, whether it is a forest, a species, a community or a culture, it can wreck the … Continue reading