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Tag: David Colyer

CSS Public Lecture: Lenin’s Party in New Zealand – 100 years of Leninism

“A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistical philistines, who have brought their “civilisation” with them from England and keep it to themselves like a dog in a manger.” – Lenin’s assessment on New Zealand having read one book of its short history in the early 1900s. For our June 2021 event David Colyer will present…

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CSS Public Lecture: Such a Power In the Land as to Make the Tyrants in Wellington Tremble

For our October event, CSS member David Colyer will present a lecture on some of the earliest aspects of the workers’ movement in New Zealand. In the late 1880s a new wave of radicalism swept the industrial world. Millions of workers joined new trade unions, socialist political parties, and the Knights of Labour, which was…

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