The Finance Minister, Bill English, at a post budget speech to a Christchurch business meeting announced that the government is considering the part-privatisation of Kiwibank. Bill English was no doubt euphoric from delivering a budget for his rich mates that he thought he could be more honest about the government’s intentions to sell our state […]
Read MoreFinance Minister, Bill English, delivered the National governments second budget. There were no real surprises as most of the content of the budget had been well signaled in the run up to the budget. This budget was very much a class based budget- a budget for the rich – paid for by you!
Read MoreAfter months of build up, the World Cup is finally underway. As it approaches the end of the first week, in what is a month-long bloated competition, something has become rather clear. Hype is everything. We reproduce an article from Socialist Appeal (Britain).
Read MoreBangkok is in flames as the counter-revolutionary violence in Thailand reaches a bloody climax. The long-awaited assault by the Thai army has already taken place, and will not cease until every trace of the protest has been wiped out. No-one can be sure of the number of casualties, but the final figure will certainly be […]
Read More(We reproduce an article from Britain relevant to the situation in NZ. To read full article go to http://www.marxist.com/monopoly-capitalism.htm) Capitalist economists constantly argue that privately run industry driven by pursuit of profit is the best way for an economy to function. But, even a cursory look at the world around us tells a very different […]
Read MoreThe workers at the Foshan Honda plant in China won a 35% wage increase after taking strike action which started on May 17.
Read MoreAccording to the PSA “Budget 2010 does little to improve prospects for public sector workers and delivery of public services… expect further restructuring tighter restraints and the steady erosion of public services. Job losses will continue….”
Read MoreLabour history has been made. New Zealand has had it’s first Mall workers strike. Workers in JB Hi-Fi in Albany, organised with the Unite Union, were on strike for better pay and against a culture of bullying and intimidation against union members.
Read MoreIt’s been close to a month since the Deepwater Horison Oil Rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico, just 45 miles south of the already beleaguered gulf coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi. The ensuing oil spill may well surpass that which followed the wreck of the Exxon Valdez, which poured over 11 million […]
Read MoreThe loss of belief in the existing society, its institutions, laws and morality, is a prior condition for revolution. But such a change does not happen all at once. Gradually, to the degree that the given socio-economic system begins to fail, the feeling grows that “something is not right” with society, that some kind of […]
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