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Wars Without End – the land wars in nineteenth century New Zealand by Danny Keenan

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The following is a book review that originally appeared in issue 6 of aargh! (available online here ) A wonderful ease Wars Without End – the land wars in nineteenth century New Zealand by Danny Keenan -  Penguin 2009 Reviewed by Peppertree BY CHOOSING the title Wars Without End , Danny Keenan puts an important conclusion of his book on the land wars right up front. While the gun fighting mainly took place between 1843 and 1872, the battle over land has continued endlessly in the courts, in parliament and in tribunal hearings. In the age of neoliberalism, the armed force have been replaced by hordes of property developers who continue to dispossess people of a place to live. Every chapter of the very detailed book clearly shows how utterly incompatible the British concept of individual property titles and the collective ownership model of Māori society are. The British system with its clearly defined, surveyed and permanently owned plots was imposed on a society where land had always b

Wars Without End – the land wars in nineteenth century New Zealand by Danny Keenan

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The following is a book review that originally appeared in issue 6 of aargh! (available online here ) A wonderful ease Wars Without End – the land wars in nineteenth century New Zealand by Danny Keenan -  Penguin 2009 Reviewed by Peppertree BY CHOOSING the title Wars Without End , Danny Keenan puts an important conclusion of his book on the land wars right up front. While the gun fighting mainly took place between 1843 and 1872, the battle over land has continued endlessly in the courts, in parliament and in tribunal hearings. In the age of neoliberalism, the armed force have been replaced by hordes of property developers who continue to dispossess people of a place to live. Every chapter of the very detailed book clearly shows how utterly incompatible the British concept of individual property titles and the collective ownership model of Māori society are. The British system with its clearly defined, surveyed and permanently owned plots was imposed on a society where land had always b

Bookstall at the Counterfutures Conference at Vic Uni

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The Freedom Shop will be having a stall at the  Counterfutures : Left Thought and Practice Aotearoa gathering  Thursday and Friday, 1 & 2 Sept. We'll be setting up the stall midday Thursday - so if you are on campus, come along on check it out. Some of the books we will be selling include:    We also have numerous pamphlets and zines by a range of authors including: Michael Albert, Bakunin, Alexander Berkman, Boff, Murray Bookchin, Toby Boraman, Willamette Brown, Noam Chomsky, Voltairine de Cleyre, Sam Dolgoff, Leslie Feinberg, Kropotkin, Malatesta, Lucy Parsons, Rudolf Rocker & many more.  Have a look at our catalogue here: 2016 Zine Catalogue

Bookstall at the Counterfutures Conference at Vic Uni

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The Freedom Shop will be having a stall at the  Counterfutures : Left Thought and Practice Aotearoa gathering  Thursday and Friday, 1 & 2 Sept. We'll be setting up the stall midday Thursday - so if you are on campus, come along on check it out. Some of the books we will be selling include:    We also have numerous pamphlets and zines by a range of authors including: Michael Albert, Bakunin, Alexander Berkman, Boff, Murray Bookchin, Toby Boraman, Willamette Brown, Noam Chomsky, Voltairine de Cleyre, Sam Dolgoff, Leslie Feinberg, Kropotkin, Malatesta, Lucy Parsons, Rudolf Rocker & many more.  Have a look at our catalogue here: 2016 Zine Catalogue

Pamphlets & Zines on the Spanish Revolution

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If you are interested in reading about the Spanish Revolution, below are some pamphlets and zines we had for sale at the Freedom Shop's recent Spanish Revolution exhibition The Friends of Durruti A Chronology Noam Chomsky on Spanish Revolution Augustin Souchy 1936-39 The Spanish Civil War Martha Ackelsberg Mujeres Libres A Day Mournful and Overcast Isaac PuenteLibertarian Communism Life in Revolutionary Barcelona Poster Mujeres LibresWedding Factory Poster George OrwellBarcelona in 1936

Pamphlets & Zines on the Spanish Revolution

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If you are interested in reading about the Spanish Revolution, below are some pamphlets and zines we had for sale at the Freedom Shop's recent Spanish Revolution exhibition The Friends of Durruti A Chronology Noam Chomsky on Spanish Revolution Augustin Souchy 1936-39 The Spanish Civil War Martha Ackelsberg Mujeres Libres A Day Mournful and Overcast Isaac PuenteLibertarian Communism Life in Revolutionary Barcelona Poster Mujeres LibresWedding Factory Poster George OrwellBarcelona in 1936

The Spanish Revolution

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We celebrated and remembered the Spanish Revolution and the people involved as it gave so many people a world of enablement and empowerment. A world not ruled by class and capitalism, but a world based on collectivism and humanity. If you would like more information about the Revolution, at the Freedom Shop there are a range of books, pamphlets and zines on the Spanish Revolution, including: Ready for Revolution: The CNT Defense Committees in Barcelona, 1933–1938 by Agustín Guillamón; Anarchism and Workers’ Self-Management in Revolutionary Spain by Frank Mintz; We The Anarchists! A Study Of The Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927–1937 by Stuart Christie; Durruti in the Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz; Anarchism in Galicia: Organisation, Resistance and Women in the Underground by Eliseo Fernández, Antón Briallos, and Carmen Blanco, and Free Society: A German Exile in Revolutionary Spain by Werner Drescher. Three of the film shown at the exhibition are on-line: Vivir la Utopia (