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We Should All Be Watermelons
An article by Anne Onymous for the October 2023 edition of The Commonweal. This article has been edited for the online edition.
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Film Review: El Cid (1961)
The blacklisted screenwriter, the Fascist dictator, Charlton Heston, and the movie they all helped make happen: Byron Clark reviews 1961 film 'El Cid'.
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Dispatches from Exile - ‘The Left is dead! – Long Live the Left’ : The Socialist Workers’ Party (UK) and Marxism – A Festival of Ideas 2023
Former chair of the Wellington Socialist Society, Hayden Taylor, provides some thoughts on the state of Marxism in the UK where he currently resides…
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The Scone in New Zealand Literature and Other Essays 1990 – 2020 : Tony Simpson
Quentin Findlay reviews Tony Simpson's collection of essays for The Commonweal Volume Four (October 2023).
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The Alliance – a political tragedy (part 1 of 2).
Victor Billot writes on his experience of the NewLabour and then Alliance parties. This is the first of two parts, published in Commonweal volume four…
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On Institutions
A collection of four short essays by N. Wi Neera (Ngāti Toarangatira | Kāi Tahu)Composer, Soldier, and Wellington City Councillor. First published in…
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The New Zealand Socialist Party First Annual Conference 1908
Martin Crick on the first conference of the New Zealand Socialist. First published in volume for of The Commonweal in October 2023.
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