China: Victory For Honda Workers
The workers at the Foshan Honda plant in China won a 35% wage increase after taking strike action which started on May 17.
Read MorePublic Sector Budget Cuts Militant Action Needed to Defend the Public Sector
According 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 MoreMall Workers Strike for Union Rights and Pay Rise
Labour 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 MoreGulf of Mexico Oil Disaster Profit to Blame
It’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 MoreA New Stage in the Crisis of Capitalism – Part Five
The 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 […]
Read MoreA New Stage in the Crisis of Capitalism – Part Four
Europe faces a protracted period of austerity, with major contractions in output, consumption and employment. The crisis has started with the smaller, more vulnerable economies like Greece, Portugal and Ireland. But the others will follow, starting with Britain.
Read MoreA New Stage in the Crisis of Capitalism – Part Three
Europe faces a protracted period of austerity, with major contractions in output, consumption and employment. The crisis has started with the smaller, more vulnerable economies like Greece, Portugal and Ireland. But the others will follow, starting with Britain.
Read MoreA New Stage in the Crisis of Capitalism – Part Two
In the second part of his article, Alan Woods looks at the dire economic situation the European Union faces. He also analyses the effects of the European crisis on the world economy.
Read MoreA New Stage in the Crisis of Capitalism – Part One
After talk of the so called "credit crunch" gave way to optimistic comments about the "green shoots" in the economy, events in Greece caught the bourgeois commentators unaware. Now the world economy has once again been plunged into chaos and uncertainty as the governments of Europe try to contain the fall-out from the near-default of […]
Read MoreNew Zealand Perspectives 2010
New Zealand Perspectives 2010 should be read in conjunction with previous years’ perspectives documents (New Zealand Perspectives 2008 & 2009) as they are a continuation from them. In addition these perspectives should be read in conjunction with the latest World Perspectives analysis and associated material from the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) and Socialist Appeal NZ.
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