1863: HMS Orpheus
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 7 February 1863, 157 years ago today, HMS Orpheus foundered while attempting Manukau bar. Greatest maritime tragedy in our history in terms of the great loss of life (189.) On the Orpheus’ military mission, a brilliant 2010 article in NZ Legacy magazine by Bruce Ringer straightens things out if you’re […]
Read more..February 7, 2020
2010s: Diversity Policing
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Our 2010s were characterised by a value called ‘diversity’. Especially in the later half of that historical time period, Victimhood Culture flared up to energy and mania not seen since the early 1990s or 1970s. What was this ‘diversity’ thing? Shooting straight, diversity simply means what the English dictionary would say it was. In our […]
Read more..February 7, 2020
2020: A Life’s Sentences Overturned
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Just learned that Gordon McLauchlan died on the 26th of January (2020.) An historian, newspaperman, TV presenter, literary figure, social commentator, encyclopedist. I met him only once, delivering fast food to him in his very exclusive old apartment building in central Auckland. A repeat customer, I assumed, I’d be back to have a chance to […]
Read more..February 7, 2020
VJMP Waitangi Day Address 2020
By VJM
As another Grievance Day dawns on these sleepy isles, the division and hatred between all of society’s components is set to intensify. Today’s newspapers and television broadcasts will tell us all how we hate each other, and how our national history is one of theft, murder and rape. Grifters, shysters and con artists of all […]
Read more..February 6, 2020
Why The New Conservatives Could Get 5% In September
By VJM
Following overseas trends, it’s apparent that an intense degree of discontentment exists among Western voters. There are protests all over the West – some violent, most confined to the ballot boxes for now. This article explores the possibility that discontentment in New Zealand could see the New Conservative Party get 5% of the vote in […]
Read more..February 5, 2020
Island Tameness And New Zealand Society
By VJM
Island tameness is a concept within behavioural ecology that explains some of the behavioural phenomena observed in animals who live on islands separate from any mainland. As the name suggests, it refers to a form of docility that regularly afflicts animals who adapt to island environments. This essay makes a frightening suggestion: that New Zealand […]
Read more..February 5, 2020
The Establishment Right, The Far Right And The Alt Right
By VJM
A recent comment on the VJM Publishing FaceBook page asked us to define far-right. This was in response to an article on the company page that had used this adjective in reference to the rising far-right populist movements in Europe. It was not our intent to use far-right as a pejorative, but simply to use […]
Read more..February 5, 2020
What A Wonderful World
By NZB3
Anarchists are the ones who appreciate diversity and pluralism and multiculturalism in their proper and authentic sense. The State has a nose for sniffing out what people prize and value, and a talent for levering those things to gain and keep power. All the confidence tricks and propaganda used to rule us draw their power […]
Read more..February 4, 2020
“Australia, Let Us Back In!”
By NZB3
Eighty years¹ after New Zealand broke away from Australia to become its own State, many Kiwis are now trying to get back to the shelter of former political administrators. According to Alisha Rouse of the Daily Mail Australia, they, (who she never names,) are asking for actor Russell Crowe to pitch in and help. “The expats say ‘racist […]
Read more..February 3, 2020
