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SFWU Gives Govt Women's Minister 90 Days Trail to deliver on equal pay

The Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota is challenging newly appointed Nats Cabinet Minister Hekia Parata to take a lead and advance the cause of Pay Equity or stand down within her first 90 days.

Wood Processing Industry in Crisis

According to the NDU 80 sawmill job losses just announced this afternoon confirm that the wood industry is in crisis, and that the value-added strategy is now at serious risk.

Fairness at Work Rallies

On Wednesday 20 October 22,000 workers came together at rallies around the country to demonstrate against the Nats proposed Hire and Fire law. Rallies took place in: Tokoroa, Gisborne, Tauranga, Hamilton, Taupo, Thames, Hastings, Wellington, Blenheim, Nelson, Kaitaia, Auckland, Paeroa, Rotorua, Runanga, Reefton, Kaikohe, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Levin, Hawera, Timaru, Bluff, Whanganui, Masterton, Dunedin, Invercargill, Whangarei. Below are accounts from two of the above rallies.

2011 Kick the Nats Out Labour: Socialist Policies Needed

As 2010 draws to end and the summer holidays beckon. Now is a time to reflect on the year gone and the year ahead. 2010 was a year when anyone who was still under the illusion that the National led government was going to be Labour Lite was truly broken.

Pike River Mining Disaster

Socialist Appeal sends its deepest sympathies and stands in solidarity with the families of the 29 miners who died in the recent Pike River disaster, and the West Coast communities .

Venezuela: The lies of the counter-revolution answered

In January of this year an article appeared in the main bourgeois paper in Brazil that referred to me as “Chavez’s adviser”. A few weeks later the same story appeared on the front page of the Venezuelan opposition paper Tal Cual, edited by Todor Petkoff, who wrote the article. I answered Mr. Petkoff at the time. But, as a cynical journalist once said: why let the facts spoil a good story?

Britain: Biggest student demonstration in decades and this is just the beginning

Events have taken a turn in Britain as the first mass reaction took place this week against the programme of vicious cuts being introduced by the Tory-led coalition. On Wednesday, November 10th, London witnessed an overwhelming response from the students as a demonstration of over 50,000 marched in protest at the attacks taking place in Higher Education.

Class Government and Class War

We are reprinting this article published in Fightback, Ireland - because the arguments used by Connolly in answering the capitalists are as valid today as when they were written in 1901. Taken from the Workers’ Republic, May 1901.

Indonesia: Inspiring Book Launch Tour of Revolution Betrayed

More than ten years after the revolutionary “reformasi” movement in Indonesia, the thirst for Marxist ideas remains unquenchable. Those ideas continue to inspire left-wing student and workers activists and induce fear among the ruling classes. The fear of communism, instilled by the terror of the Suharto dictatorship, has not completely been removed but it has been eroded.

Perspectives for the Indonesian revolution a First Estimation Part One

Twelve years since the magnificent movement that overthrew the hated Soeharto regime in Indonesia it is time to draw a balance sheet of what was achieved and what the state of the movement is now. As the crisis of worldwide capitalism begins to bite, Indonesia too is faced with a new situation, one where the working class and youth will seek to learn the lessons of the past. This two-part document attempts to draw those lessons.

Perspectives for a Indonesian revolution a First Estimation Part Two

Having analysed past experience from the terrible bloodbath of 1965 through to the movement that overthrew Soeharto, in part two of their perspectives document the Indonesian Marxists look at the present situation facing the working class. Is there such a thing as a “progressive bourgeoisie” in Indonesia today? What is the impact of the crisis on the Indonesian economy and what are the prospects for the coming period?

PPTA take Industrial Action to Defend Members

‘If you think education is expensive, try ignorance’ – never has that observation been more relevant.
The country – along with much of the world – is being pounded by the economic crisis. Unemployment is rising while everyone agrees we need more qualified school leavers.

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SFWU Gives Govt Women's Minister 90 Days Trail to deliver on equal pay

Wood Processing Industry in Crisis

Fairness at Work Rallies

2011 Kick the Nats Out Labour: Socialist Policies Needed

Pike River Mining Disaster

Venezuela: The lies of the counter-revolution answered

Britain: Biggest student demonstration in decades and this is just the beginning

Class Government and Class War

Indonesia: Inspiring Book Launch Tour of Revolution Betrayed

Perspectives for the Indonesian revolution a First Estimation Part One

Perspectives for a Indonesian revolution a First Estimation Part Two

PPTA take Industrial Action to Defend Members

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