Rabble Rousers and Merry Pranksters: A History of Anarchism in Aotearoa/New Zealand from the Mid-1950s to the Early 1980sRabble Rousers and Merry Pranksters captures some of the imagination, the audacity, the laughs and the wildness that animated many of the social movements of the sixties and seventies in Aotearoa/New Zealand. During this time, particularly from the late sixties to the early seventies, an astonishingly broad-based revolt occurred throughout the country. Thousands of workers, Maori, Pacific people, women, youth, lesbians, gays, students, environmentalists and others rebelled against authority. Innovative new styles and anarchistic methods of political dissent became popular. A colourful and energetic bunch of anarchists occasionally played significant roles in these struggles. Anarchists were prominent in the anti-nuclear, anti-Vietnam War, anti-US military bases, commune, unemployed and peace movements. Rabble Rousers and Merry Pranksters is a richly-detailed tale about a much neglected anti-authoritarian leftist current in Aotearoa/New Zealand history." |
Contents
The Mid1950s to the Mid1960s | 1 |
The Late 1960s and Early 1970s | 27 |
New Social Movements and Anarchism From the Early 1970s | 73 |
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1960s and early activity ACUG affinity groups Alan Harold anarchism Anarchist Commune anarchist groups anarchist movement anarchist scene anarcho-pacifists Andrew Dodsworth anti-apartheid anti-authoritarian Aotearoa Auckland Auckland Anarchist Activists Auckland PYM Auckland Solidarity authoritarian Bastion Point became Beeville believe Bill Dwyer campaign capitalism capitalist carnival anarchists Christchurch Anarchy Group Christchurch PYM claimed class struggle communist Council counter-cultural CPNZ Dave Welch demonstrations direct action Droescher Dunedin Dwyer example feminist formed Frank Prebble Gramaphone groupuscule hippies involved issues Labour leaflet Left Leftists Leninist libertarian socialism libertarian socialist Maddock magazine Maoist Maori Marxist militant Minchin Muldoon Napier Street Nga Tamatoa nonviolent nuclear organisation Party police political Polynesian Panthers Ponsonby protest movement PYMers racism radical Resistance bookshops revolution revolutionary Richard Bolstad Richard Suggate Riethmuller Situationist sixties and seventies social movements society student Sydney Libertarians Trotskyist union Values Party Vietnam Wellington Wellington PYM Wellington Resistance women's liberation workers youth Zealand