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Today - Wednesday, April 25 - is Anzac Day in New Zealand. It's a public holiday and also most supermarkets, shops etc are shut ion the morning and only open after lunch. It commemorates the attempted invasion of the Ottoman Empire in 1915 at Gallipoli. Anzac Day used to be a day of old-style imperialist militarist panoply and began to be disrupted by anti-Vietnam War protesters. Over the following couple of decades, attendance at Anzac Day ceremonies dropped off significantly. In the 21st century, however, it has been recast by a liberal ruling class and attendances have gone up again. Now it is part-and-[arcel of NZ's boutique imperialism, to borrow a phrase frm my friend Tom O'Lincoln on the Australian variety. NZ imperialism these days is very much liberal imperialism, rather than the old jingoist, blatantly reactionary type. What is still glossed over, however, is that NZ was part of an invasion of another country, one which had never even done NZ any wrong. The politics around that originbal invasion are still lied about: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/gallipoli-invasion-a-dirty-and-bloody-business/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
