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Don Franks According to a feature in today’s Dominion Post, “one in five Kiwi workers suffer from workplace bullying, one of the worst rates in the world”. The claim’s made by a Minister of Labour commissioned university survey, released on 16/4/2010. A joint university research team – from Auckland, Waikato, Massey and London – polled
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The Communist Party of India (Maoist) is a banned revolutionary party leading a revolutionary movement which has support in more than a third of the country. The party’s spokesman, Azad, has been interviewed by The Hindu, a widely read publication. In this interview Azad talks in detail about the armed struggle, how and why it
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The Spark April 2010 Byron Clark Christchurch’ s free youth health center known as 198 is likely to close at the end of this month due to a funding shortfall. The center has delivered health services to young people since 1995. In 2008-09 the center received $553,087 from the District Health Board but it was
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One of India’s leading Maoists Kobad Ghandy is facing charges under India’s repressive laws which have been denounced by human rights activists. Kobad is a campaigner for liberation against Indian state terror. Join the demo to free Kobad Ghandy and protest against Operation Green Hunt, India’s war on the poor. 12 midday Thursday 29 April
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The Spark April 2010 Byron Clark Recently released figures from Federated Farmers have shown that although the number of farms with written contracts between the farmer and farm employees grew by 9% since last year, fewer than a quarter of farms have a contract with their employees and only 40% keep records of the hours
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The Spark April 2010 Jared Phillips In the first part of its first term the current National government strengthened its centrist positioning with a job creation agenda (national and regional job summits), redundancy packages (Job Support Scheme, transitional relief packages), and youth employment incentives (youth opportunities package). As was the international order-of-the-day, corporate welfare pervaded
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Wellington Public Meeting: April 8th: What’s all the fuss about the Search & Surveillance Bill? Public meeting 8 April 2010 at 7pm Old Government Building Lecture Theatre 2 (VUW Law School) Chief justices, the privacy commissioner, Amnesty International, the Council for Trade Unions and the Human Rights Commissioner have all come out in opposition to
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Ever since the global food crisis of 2008, countries such as China, as well as South Korea and the oil-rich but food-poor nations of the Middle East, have been buying up large amounts of land for agricultural production in places like sub-Saharan Africa, sparking concerns about a “new land grab” and “re-colonisation” of the continent.
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Alastair Reith http://noembassy.wordpress.com/ On 26 March 26th 2010, Palestine activists from around Wellington met to plan a campaign of resistance to the re-opening of an Israeli embassy in our city. The decision was made to form a coalition involving all interested groups and individuals. We are calling on all groups opposed to the Israeli occupation
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