The anti-capitalist, anti-state and anti-domination
political philosophy of anarchism has played
a small, but important and colourful role
in New Zealand politics.
== Anarchist groups today ==
Today there are two small national groups
based in Wellington and Christchurch, a national
anarcha-feminist network, bookshop/infoshops/social
spaces in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin,
an online bookshop based in Christchurch and
a publishing collective in Wellington. There
is a national anarchist journal and a national
independent news site for activists run by
anarchists. Many anarchists are involved in,
and have set up, non-anarchist projects and
groups with similar values and have played
a significant role in non-parliamentary activism.
=== National ===
Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement (AWSM)
is an anarchist-communist collective with
members across New Zealand.
Beyond Resistance is an anarchist communist
collective with members across New Zealand.
The group is run from Christchurch, where
it has been involved in community organising
around the recent earthquakes. It runs monthly
discussion groups and shows political films.
South Pacific Christian Anarchists (SPCA)
is a christian-anarchism network with affiliates
in New Zealand, Australia and SE Asia. SPCA
was founded in Tauranga in 2006 and has held
gatherings in: Tauranga Moana (2006), Brisbane
(2007), Christchurch (2008), Melbourne (2009),
Wellington (2010), Otaki (2011), Hokianga
(2012), Ruatoria (2013). The 2017 event is
being planned for Tauranga. Affiliates are
involved in a wide range of social, cultural,
faith and political contexts and a number
have been involved in high-profile non-violent
direct actions, most notably in New Zealand,
the temporary closing of the Government Communications
Security Bureau Waihopai spy base in April
and May 2008 after the base was entered and
the raydome slashed with pruning sickles and
actions in Australia including infiltrating
in 2009 the Talisman Sabre war games live
fire area at Shoalwater Military Training
Area in Queensland, disabling a Tiger Armed
Reconnaissance Helicopter (AHR) at Rockhampton
Airport in 2011 and witnesses at other military
bases in the Northern Territory, Queensland
and Victoria. Many affiliates of the SPCA
also have ties with the Catholic Worker movement
in New Zealand and Australia. SPCA Founders
Manu Caddie and Graham Cameron were interviewed
by the US anarchist podcast Which Side in
Episode 187 webcast on 6 June 2016 about the
origins of the SPCA and current activities.
Graham Cameron articulated some of the political
tenets and theologies of the SPCA in a blog
post in May 2016. The group have produced
a few editions of a zine called 'Co-Opted/Kia
Ngātahi'.
=== Anarchism in Auckland today ===
There are two main anarchist projects in Auckland
today: Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement
and the Auckland Anarchist Network. Anarchists
are actively involved in projects such as
the Tumeke Cycle Space (a DIY bike workshop
initially set up by anarchists) and Auckland
Action Against Poverty (a beneficiary and
unemployed direct action group).
There has been a small continued anarchists
milieu in Auckland over the past decade. Auckland
anarchists have tended to focus on starting
or being involved in broader activist groups,
one off actions and projects rather than starting
anarchist specific political groups. These
include: Auckland Animal Action (1996–2006),
Anti-GenetiX Action (2004–2005), Anti-War
Direct Action (2004), Global Peace and Justice
Auckland (2004-today), Anti-Bigot Action (2005)
Campaign Against the Taser (2006–2007),
Civil Rights Defense (2007), Reclaim the Nights
and Slut Walk.
Auckland anarchists have only tried to set
up permanent anarchist specific political
groups a couple of times: Black Cat (2005)
and A Space Inside (2006). A Space Inside
ran a national anarchist conference in 2007
and later became the Auckland Anarchist Network
which focuses on being a consistent communication
point for anarchists rather than a propaganda
group.. There was also an attempt to set up
a social space in 2003 called ECCO.Like previous
generations of Auckland anarchists, they have
often gravitated around inner city flats which
have included 8 West Terrace (2004–2005)
and Necropolis (1990s-2007). West Terrace
provided a space for young activists who later
formed Radical Youth and Necropolis was Auckland's
most important punk space for over a decade.Like
other major cities, many anarchists in the
past decade got involved during the anti-globalisation
movement including at an anti-APEC rally in
1999. Auckland Anti-genetic engineering rallies
(2003) and anti Iraq war rallies (2004) interested
new activists in anarchism.
Another important group at this time was militant
direct action animal rights group Auckland
Animal Action (1996–2006). Although not
an anarchist group, many anarchists were drawn
to the groups militant direct action. Auckland
GenetiX Action (2003–2005) was an anti-GE
group set up by anarchists and modelled on
Auckland Animal Action and helped Greenpeace
stop KFC from using genetically engineered
soy feed.Notable Auckland anarchist activities
Between 2004 and 2007 Auckland anarchists
were involved in regular protests in support
of imprisoned refugees, including Ahmed Zauoui,
an ex-Algerian MP, and three Iranian refugees.
for converting to Christianity. On 1 September
2007 five anarchists chained themselves to
Mt Eden prison in support of one of the Iranians
who was on hunger strike for 52 days. They
were arrested and three refused to sign bail
forms and refused to eat food. The Iranian
detainee was released the next day.
On 5 March 2005 a pro-LGBT anarchist organised
counter-demonstration delayed 10,000 Destiny
Church "family values" protesters from marching
up Auckland's Queen Street for an hour
On 22 March 2005 anarchists publicly complained
about police brutality while passively resisting
arrest for obstructing a footpath, following
a peace demonstration that went inside an
ANZ bank.Auckland anarchist groups
Auckland Anarchist Network began in 2007 as
"A Space Inside" at a famous Auckland punk
location, Necropolis. The group ran a national
anarchist conference in 2007 and later changed
its name to the Auckland Anarchist Network.
Black Heart Infoshop is Auckland's only anarchist
opshop located on Karangahape Road, Auckland.
=== Rotorua ===
Rotorua Peoples Union is an IWW-style direct
action community union, without paid employees,
involved in workplace and unemployment issues.
Prominent unemployment activist and anarchist
Paul Blair plays a leading role.
=== Wellington ===
Wild Cat Anarchist Collective
=== Historical groups ===
==== National ====
New Zealand Socialist Party (1901 July - ?)
Anarchist Alliance of Aotearoa (AAA)According
to one anarchist, the Anarchist Alliance of
Aotearoa (AAA) only had one member in June
1988. The "Kiwi Anarchist Conference" in 1992
formally adopted the aims and principles of
AAA. Five groups were affiliated to AAA in
1991
Anarcha-Feminist Federation (1991-c1995?)Two
anarcha-feminist group were established in
Auckland and Wellington following the 1991
national anarchist conference in Christhchurch.
Sekhmet was the magazine of the federation,
produced by the Katipo Collective in Wellington.
Otautahi/ChristchurhCh Anarcha-Feminist Group,
which was formed in May 1995, become the second
active group in the federation, presumably
the Auckland group had disbanded.National
anarchist conference have been run in 1991
(Wellington), 1995 (Wellington), 2001 (Christchurch),
2003 (Wanganui), 2004 (Christchurch), 2007
(Auckland). Regional conferences were held
in 1995 (Wellington), 2008 (Christchurch),
2009 (Auckland) and 2010 (Wellington). An
anarcha-feminist conference was held in 1995
(Wellington). A Christian anarchist conference
was held in 2008 (Christchurch).
==== Auckland ====
1950s–60s - Libertarian Socialist Group
in Auckland
Unknown hippy-Anarchist Ponsonby flat in 1960s
Solidarity (1973-4) was set up by Graeme Minchin,
Steve Tanner and Harry Robinson and involved
around ten people.
Auckland Anarchist Activists (1975-8) was
an informal group of anarchists based around
a couple of inner city flats which were a
focus point for anarchist activity. .
The Auckland City Unemployed Group (ACUG)
(1976) was formed by anarchists and only lasted
one year.There was a small group of around
10 anarchists revolving around a Napier street
flat between 1976-7.
Black Lagoon Anarchist Bookshop (c 1995)
Anarchist Alliance of Aotearoa (AAA)
Black Cat Anarchist Communist collective (2004–2005)
Radical Youth (Aotearoa New Zealand) (2005–2008)
was an autonomous anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist
group of young activists. Its major achievement
was a walkout of 1000 high school students
in 2006 to end youth pay discrimination.
Cherry Bomb Comix is an anarcha-feminist online
book shop. Cherry Bomb Comics opened as a
book shop in central AUckland in July 2004.
It closed its doors in November 2007.
==== Poneke/Wellington ====
Freedom Group (1913 July 9 - c.1913)
Kensington and Aro St Times (KAT) (late 1970s)
was a situationist-anarchist group.
Katipo Collective (c1991 - ?) was an anarcha-feminist
collective in Wellington. It produced Sekhmet,
the magazine of the Anarcha-Feminist Federation,
from 1991 - c1995 and organised national feminist
conferences. Katipo Collective was the only
anarcha-feminist group in this period until
the Otautahi (ChCh) Anarcha-Feminist Group
formed in May 2005.
Libertarian Communists
The Committee for the Establishment of Civilisation
was launched in 1991. It initially met at
Victoria University and soon became a city-based
group. The group ran for 10 years helping
to start other local anarchist projects including
the Freedom Shop.
==== Otautahi/Christchurch ====
The Alternative Entertainment Bureau (c1984)
was an anarchist punk collective in Christchurch
which aimed to provide cheap and affordable
entertainment for young people. Its first
gig reached a crowd of 1700. The group also
ran "Dole Day Afternoons." Members of the
collective volunteered at the local unemployment
centre.
Direct Action (c1991) was a small group of
older Christchurch anarchists, including Frank
Prebble, who had been active in the 1970s.
Otautahi/ChristchurhCh Anarcha-Feminist Group
formed in May 1995 as the second group in
the Anarcha-Feminist Federation.
Anarchist Round Table (ART)
==== Dunedin ====
There was a small anarchist scene in the 1970s
in Waitati, near Dunedin which included Bruce
Grenville.
In 2003 an Anarchist infoshop named Black
Star Books opened. Black Star Books remains
open and active as of 2014 at a different
location in the central city with a website.
In 2014 volunteers of Black Star Books began
contributing Zines for a "Zine of the week"
column in the Otago University [Critic Magazine].
== Anarchist tendencies ==
=== Anarcha-feminism ===
Anarcha-feminism has played an important part
in New Zealand anarchist history.
=== Punk ===
Punk has played an important part in New Zealand
anarchist history since the 1980s. A very
loose community of anarchist punks throughout
Aotearoa formed by the early 1980s and was
well established by the mid to late 1980s.
=== Anarcho-syndicalism and Syndicalism ===
Anarcho-syndicalism and Syndicalism have played
an important part in New Zealand anarchist
history since the 1890s.
== History ==
=== Early workers movement ===
In the early 1890s and 1900s syndicalism and
anti-parliamentary socialism played an important
and initially leading role as a current within
the early workers movement, especially in
the ‘Red’ Federation and then the Industrial
Workers of the World (IWW). Some members of
the IWW were anarchists (such as Syd Kingsford),
or were sympathetic to the anti-parliamentary
ideas of anarchism.
=== 1951 Waterfront lockout ===
The 1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute was
the largest and most widespread industrial
dispute in New Zealand history. During the
time, up to twenty thousand workers went on
strike in support of waterfront workers protesting
financial hardships and working conditions.
Thousands more refused to handle "scab" goods.
The dispute, sometimes referred to as the
waterfront lockout or waterfront strike, lasted
151 days—from 13 February.
The Waterside Workers Union, particularly
the Auckland branch, had a strong syndicalist
philosophy. Jock Barnes, also a syndicalist,
was the president of the Auckland Watersiders
Union from 1944 to 1952 and played a significant
role in the lockout.The defeat of the dispute
was considered by many parliamentary socialists
as the final defeat of syndicalism as a viable
trend within the broader workers movement.
=== 1960s, '70s and '80s social movements
===
Anarchism was popular during the protest movements
of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Anarchists
were involved in the anti-Springbok tour protests
(including: 1960 New Zealand rugby union tour
of South Africa, Halt All Racist Tours (HART)
set up in 1969, and the 1981 Springbok Tour),
the Anti-Vietnam movement which began in the
mid-1960s and the Anti-Nuclear protests during
the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
=== 1980s and 90s Unemployment rights movement
===
In the 1980s and early 1990s anarchists were
involved in dozens of small unemployment groups
around the country. The unemployment movement
brought in a wave of new activists to the
anarchist movement.Te Roopu Rawakore - the
National Unemployed and Beneficiaries Movement
(NUBM) was dominated by the Auckland Unemployed
Workers Right Centre (AUWRC). AUWRC was led
by Sue and Bill Bradford and involved a large
number of anarchists. Anarchists also played
a key role in the Wellington Unemployed Workers
Union (WUWU) (which later became the Wellington
Peoples Centre).In 1991 Te Roopu Rawakore
split, largely due to a division in AUWRC
between the Bradford's and their supports
and the anarchists (mainly punks). With NUMB
shattered, many activists left leaving the
anarchists in charge of the organisation,
which final dissolved around 1993.
=== 1999–2005 - Anti-globalisation, anti-war
and anti-GE movements ===
Between 1999 and 2005 anarchists played a
key role in anti-globalisation, anti-war,
anti-genetic engineering and animal rights
movement.
=== 2004 Youth rates campaign ===
During the SupersizeMyPay.com campaign in
2004 and 2005 anarchists played a leading
role in Unite union and Radical Youth to win
the effective end of youth rates.
=== 2007 Terror Raids ===
Armed police raid and arrest 17 activists,
including anarchists, for alleged involvement
in a paramilitary training camp deep in the
Urewera mountain range near the town of Ruatoki
in the eastern Bay of Plenty.
=== Important dates ===
1859 – Arthur Desmond born.
1901 July – The loosely organised New Zealand
Socialist Party was formed and included sydnicalists
and anarchists. The Wellington group became
a centre for anti-parliarmentary socialists
1908 – New Zealand Socialist Party has 3000
members and holds its first national conference.
The conference condemns political action by
a two to one majority.
1908 - IWW first established a group in Wellington.
1910 - anarchists within the Christchurch
branch of the Socialist Party leave to form
an IWW Recruiting Union.
1912-1913 - The IWW including Tom Barker and
J B King are active during the Waihi strike
and General Strikes.
9 July 1913 - The Freedom Group is set up
by Philip Josephs in Wellington and lasts
for a year. Rumor has it they have running
battles with Police during the Great Strike.
1950s/60s - Libertarian Socialist Group in
Auckland
1950s - Bill Dwyer moves to Aotearoa/NZ from
Ireland.
1966 - Bill Dwyer convicted for calling the
Queen a bludger whilst speaking in Auckland
in 1966.
18 November 1982 - Punk anarchist Neil Roberts
dies during a suicide bomb attack against
a facility housing the main computer database
of the New Zealand Police in Wanganui. Roberts
was the only person killed, and the computer
system was undamaged.
1984 - The McGillicuddy Serious Party, a satirical
political party, formed in 1984 in Hamilton
as the political arm of Clan McGillicuddy
(established in 1978).
1986 - Anarchist Journal The State Adversary
is launched.
1991 - National anarchist conference held
in Wellington called "Kiwi Anarchist Conference"
and was hosted by the Committee for the Establishment
of Civilisation. According to one attendee,
60 people attended, mainly from Auckland and
Wellington. The Anarcha Feminist Federation
of Aotearoa was launched at the conference.
The conference was organised to coincide with
the annual World Day for Laboratory Animals
march against Vivisection.
1995 May 1 - The Freedom Shop opens.
1995 April – Regional anarchist Conference
held in Wellington. A four-day conference
with a McLibel protest involving sponges being
thrown at Ronald McDonald.
1995 – National Anarcha-Feminist Conference
held in Wellington, hosted by the Katipo Collective.
The third such conference.
30 November 1999 – 40,000 anti-globalisation
protesters join the “Battle of Seattle”
or N30 protests again the World Trade Organisation
Ministerial Conference in Seattle N30]
18 March 2001 – Activists run a conference
to set up a New Zealand branch of the Peoples
Global Action (PGA), an international anti-globalisation
network. Initiated by Aotearoa Educators and
Committee for the Establishment of Civilisation,
the conference involved Tino Rangatiratanga
activists who had been involved in PGA at
a global level since February 1998.
2001 September - InterActive activist center
opens on 222 High Street, Christchurch
20–21 October 2001 – National anarchist
conference held in Christchurch called "An
Anarchist Odyssey", focusing on responses
to capitalist globalisation. Hosted by the
Anarchist Round Table (ART)
4–7 December 2003 – National anarchist
conference held near Wanganui called "Anarchist
Teaparty National Symposium".
19 March 2003 - The second Iraq War begins.
23–24 October 2004 - National anarchist
conference held in Christchurch called "Anarchism
in Action" hosted by Anarchist Round Table.
9–11 September 2007 - National anarchist
conference held in Auckland hosted by A Space
Inside.
15 October 2007 - Armed police raid and arrest
17 activists, including anarchists, for alleged
involvement in a paramilitary training camp
deep in the Urewera mountain range near the
town of Ruatoki in the eastern Bay of Plenty.
11–13 July 2008 - South Pacific Christian
anarchist conference held in Christchurch
hosted by South Pacific Christian Anarchists
(SPCA).
== New Zealand Anarchists ==
Arthur Desmond (c. 1859 – 26 January 1929),
a.k.a. Arthur Uing, Ragnar Redbeard, Richard
Thurland, Desmond Dilg and Gavin Gowrie, was
a New Zealand politician, Australian anarchist,
poet and author. Today Desmond is best remembered
for his pseudonymously written books Might
Is Right and Rival Caesars.
Lola Ridge (12 December 1873 – 19 May 1941)
- was an anarchist poet and an influential
editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist
publications best remembered for her long
poems and poetic sequences.
Professor Alexander William Bickerton (7 January
1842 – 21 January 1929) was the first professor
of Chemistry at Canterbury College (now called
the University of Canterbury) in Christchurch,
New Zealand. He is best known for teaching
and mentoring Ernest Rutherford. He formed
a socialist community in Christchurch called
the "Federative Home", which he later set
up as a theme park.
Tom Barker was an anti-parliamentarian socialist
who resigned from his role as the secretary
of the New Zealand Socialist Party because
he "didn’t have a parliamentary mind" and
joined the Industrial Workers of the World.
He was jailed for sedition for his part in
a general strike in Wellington.
Philip Josephs (anarchist) (25 November 1876
– 26 April 1946) was a Latvian-born Jew
who was an active member of the Wellington
Socialist Party. In July 1913 he helped establish
New Zealand's first anarchist collective Freedom
Group, and was the main distributor of anarchist
literature in New Zealand.
Bill 'Ubi' Dwyer(21 January 1933 – 13 October
2001) or William Ubique Dwyer was an anarchist
activist in New Zealand, Australia, England
and his native Ireland best known as the originator
and principal organiser of the Windsor Free
Festival.
Malcolm James aka Malcolm Gramophone was an
anarchist and an eccentric. He changed his
name to annoy his father. He had a child with
Fran O'Sullivan, later an editor of the National
Business Review, and named him God Gabriel
Galaxy Gramophone. Gramophone drove a yellow
ambulance called the Intrepid Traveller. He
wrote the Counter-Culture Free Press and the
Underground Brewers' Bible and ran the Kropotkin
Press. He mixed conservative and radical views
supporting small business capitalism and opposed
big-business monopolies, especially "beer
barons".
Neil Roberts (1960 - 19 November 1982) was
a punk anarchist who died during a suicide
bomb attack against a facility housing the
main computer database of the New Zealand
Police in Wanganui. Roberts was the only person
killed, and the computer system was undamaged.
== Anarchism in New Zealand popular culture
==
The Dharma Punks is a popular and award-winning
comic book written by Auckland artist Ant
Sang. Set in October 1994, Auckland, New Zealand,
the 384 page, eight-part comic tells a story
about a group of anarcho-punk friends who
plan to blow up a multinational fast food
chain. The Dharma won the Eric Awards 2003
"Best Serialised Comic" and the Eric Awards
2004 (The Gotham Comics - Staedtler NZ Award)
for "Best Comic".
== Literature ==
=== History ===
Boraman, Toby (2007) "Rabble rousers and merry
pranksters: a history of anarchism in Aotearoa/New
Zealand from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s"
Buchanan, Sam (2010) "Anarchism in Aotearoa/New
Zealand"
Davidson, Jared (2013) "Sewing Freedom: Philip
Josephs, Transnationalism & Early New Zealand
Anarchism" - AK Press
Prebble, Frank (1995) "Troublemakers: Anarchism
and Syndicalism - The early years of the Libertarian
Movement in Aotearoa/New Zealand"
Fry, E.C. (1965) "Tom Barker & the I.W.W."
Nettlau, Max (Unknown) "Die Geschichte Des
Anarchismus" ("the History of Anarchism")
see Chapter 10 "Anarchist propaganda and Industrial
Unionism in Australia and New Zealand."
=== Other books ===
Gramophone, Malcoln (1972) Underground Brewers'
BibleThe standard work on New Zealand home
brewing for years, the book was also known
as Anarchist handbook no. 1. The book was
written by Malcolm James aka Malcolm Gramophone
and printed by Kropotkin Press, which he owned.
Anarchism and Feminism. Christchurch: Libertarian
Press, 1995. A reprint of articles by Margaret
Flaws and the Auckland Anarcho-Feminist Huddle
from the 1970s.
Bolstad, Richard. An Anarchist Analysis of
the Chinese Revolution. Christchurch: Christchurch
Anarchy Group, 1976.
Bolstad, R. The Industrial Front: An Introduction
to the Past Lessons, Present Tactics and Future
Possibilities of the Struggle for Worker Self-Management
. For Those Who Already Had a Suspicion There
was Something Wrong With Work as it is. Christchurch:
Christchurch Anarchy Group, c. 1977.
Boraman, Toby. gThe New Left in New Zealand
h in On the Left: Essays on Socialism in New
Zealand, eds. Pat Moloney and Kerry Taylor.
Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2002, pp.
117–32.
Boraman, T. gThe New Left and Anarchism in
New Zealand From the Mid-1950s to the Early
1980s: An Anarchist Communist Interpretation.
h PhD thesis, University of Otago, Dunedin,
2006.
Buchanan, Sam. Anarchy: The Transmogrification
of Everyday Life. Wellington: Committee for
the Establishment of Civilisation, * 1999.
Buis, Simon. The Brutus Festival. Auckland:
Auckland Copy Centre, 1969.Churton, Wade.
gHave You Checked the Children? h Punk and
Postpunk Music in New Zealand, 1977.1981.
Christchurch: Put Your Foot Down Publishing,
1999.
Cumming, Allan. Understanding Nonviolence.
Dunedin: Dunedin Nonviolent Action Resource
Group, 1983.
Cumming, A. How Nonviolence Works. Dunedin:
Nonviolent Action Network in Aotearoa, 1985.
Davidson, Jared. Remains to be Seen: Tracing
Joe Hill's ashes in New Zealand, Wellington:
Rebel Press, 2011.
Droescher, Werner. gThe Little Black and Red
Book of Anarchism. h Unpublished manuscript,
1977.
Droescher, W. gToward an Alternative Society.
h Unpublished manuscript, 1978. University
of Auckland Library.
Dwyer, Bill. [writing under the pseudonym
B. Langford]. gAnarchism in New Zealand. h
Red and Black. 1 (1965), pp. 33–35.
Gramaphone, Malcolm. Get Lushed on Your Own
Grog cAn Underground Brewer fs Bible. Dunedin:
Kropotkin Press, 1972.
Innes, Wayne. Don ft Pay Taxes. Auckland:
Social Analysis, 1978.
Innes, W. How to Survive in Suburbia. Auckland:
Pupuke Press, 1981.
Prebble, Frank. Troublemakers: Anarchism and
Syndicalism, The Early Years of the Libertarian
Movement in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Christchurch:
Libertarian Press, 1995.
Prebble, F. gJock Barnes and the Syndicalist
Tradition in New Zealand. h Thrall. 14 (July/August
2000), pp. 4–5.
Sargent, Lyman T. gBeeville: An Anarchist
Commune in New Zealand, 1933-1973. h Paper
delivered at the Sixth International Communal
Studies Association meeting, Amsterdam, 1998.
Sargent, L. and Lucy Sargisson. Living in
Utopia: New Zealand fs Intentional Communities.
Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2004.
Suggate, Richard. gAnarchism in New Zealand
1900.1965 and Today. h Freedom. 28 Aug. 1982,
pp. 4–5. http://www.takver.com/history/nz/freedom1982.htm
=== Journals, magazines and zines ===
Earwig (1969–1973)Earwig was an Auckland
underground magazine edited and printed by
Heather McInnes and John Mime which at one
stage described its stance as anarchist. Some
regarded the publishers as "hippy anarchists".
Cock (1967–1973) 17 issuesCock was an anti-authoriarian
and anarchistic Wellington-based satirical
political magazine edited by Chris Wheeler.
It was also influenced by Camus' philosophy
of the absurd and had as its aim to "help
overthrow the New Zealand government - by
ridicule". Cock once said that "the only threat
the [Communists] offered to the National Party
was that of boredom."
Counter-Culture Free Press (1972-4)Counter-Culture
was the most openly anarchist underground
magazine at this time including anarchist
articles and reviews. It was printed by anarchist
Malcolm Gramophone who also ran the Kropotkin
Press.
Anarcho-Pacifist, aka Anti System, aka Social
Dis-Ease (1985–1990)Published by Simon Cottle,
a punk anarchist from Wellington who also
ran his a radio show called Anarcho-Pacifist.
Cottle played an important role in promoting
anarchism and animal rights within the punk
scene.
The State Adversary (born 1987)TSA was launched
in June 1987 by Bruce Grenville.
Sekhmet (1991 - c1995) was the magazine of
the Anarcha-Feminist Federation, produced
by the Wellington Katipo Collective. The zine
was named after Egyptian war goddess Sekhmet
because it is "a good name for a magazine
making war with hierarchies".
Thr@ll Magazine (1998 July - 2002 February)
21 issuesThr@ll was a free class struggle
anarchist magazine. It was published by an
editorial collective influenced by anarchist
communism, anarcho-syndicalism, situationism
and council communism but was not aligned
to any tendency or group. (Issues 11 – 21
available free here [1].)
Aotearoa Anarchist
Imminent Rebellion (2003 December - Today)
Current issue: 11Imminent Rebellion is a free
irregular anarchist publication from New Zealand.
It is the countries only national journal
and has contributions from around New Zealand.
Printed and bound by Rebel Press in Wellington,
the insert states: "hand bound with a hatred
of the State infused into every page". (Issues
are available free here [2])
=== Broadsheets ===
Solidarity, Broadsheet of the Aotearoa Workers
Solidarity Movement (AWSM)
Snap!
Auckland Anarchist (2008–2009) Four issues,
publication of the Auckland Anarchist Network
News From Nowhere (2006) Five issues, publication
of Black Cat Anarchist Communist Collective
== References ==
== External links ==
