AMERICA: A DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS
After Joe Biden was elected President of the United States in November 2020 the big question on most people’s minds was if Trump would go peacefully. That question was answered on January 6th, 2021.
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New Zealand General Election 2020: Labour’s Earthquake
Party PartyVotes %Votes ElectorateSeats ListSeats TotalSeats Labour Party 1,169,397 49.1 43 21 64 National Party 638,393 26.8 26 9 35 ACT 190,106 8.0 1 9 10 Green Party 180,224 7.6 1 9 10 Māori Party ** 23,938 1.0 1 1 New Zealand First 63,447 2.7 – – – Others 115,967 5.0 – – – […]
Read MoreBudget 2020, COVID-19 elimination, and the new normal
The New Zealand Minister of Finance, Hon. Grant Robertson, delivered the budget on 14 May 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the original budget had to be scrapped. The new budget is dubbed “Rebuilding together” and its main focus is on jobs. The main budget item, whose cost dwarfs all others by an order of […]
Read MoreUprising shakes the USA: reaping the whirlwind
Alan Woods comments on the uprising in the USA, which was sparked by the police murder of George Floyd, and has become the catalyst for an explosion of anger by the downtrodden in America that has sent shockwaves throughout the world. What is the way forward?
Read MoreUS: what next as the whip of reaction fails to cow the masses?
Over the last two years, more black Americans were killed by police than Americans were killed in combat in Afghanistan over the last 18 years. More black Americans were killed by police in the last three years than people were killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. Combine this with a devastating economic crisis and […]
Read MoreWhere did Coronavirus come from, and who will end up paying for it?
The virus was first detected in Hubei Province, China. Bats were probably the original reservoir. Because humans don’t have much close contact with these mammals, it is likely that the virus first jumped the interspecies barrier to another animal, perhaps pangolins, then crossed the barrier again, to humans, in a “wet-market”. Live animal markets house […]
Read MoreNew Zealand: Covid-19 Response
Image:Pixaibay “Events on a world scale are moving at breakneck speed. The new coronavirus (COVID-19) has set in motion a chain reaction, which is upending any semblance of stability in one country after another. All of the contradictions of the capitalist system are coming crashing to the surface.” Hamid Alizadeh, Coronavirus pandemic opens a […]
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Read MoreCOVID-19 pandemic: the threatening catastrophe and how to combat it
The following statement by the International Marxist Tendency explains how capitalism has utterly failed to deal with the coronavirus crisis, and is putting the lives of millions of people at risk. In such a situation, half measures and tinkering with the system are futile. Only drastic measures will suffice to avert the impending […]
Read MoreCoronavirus pandemic opens a new stage in world history
image: Pixaibay Events on a world scale are moving at breakneck speed. The new coronavirus (COVID-19) has set in motion a chain reaction, which is upending any semblance of stability in one country after another. All of the contradictions of the capitalist system are coming crashing to the surface.
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