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By The Spark reporters In 2009, Ben Peterson, a young Australian member of Socialist Alliance, spent four and a half months in Nepal, spending much of his time there with the Maoist revolutionaries and speaking to them about the revolutionary process taking place there. He had been reading everything he could find on the Nepali
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In February 2010, unannounced, Arundhati Roy decided to visit the forbidding and forbidden precincts of Central India’s Dandakaranya Forests, home to a melange of tribespeople many of whom have taken up arms to protect their people against state-backed marauders and exploiters. She recorded in considerable detail the first face-to-face journalistic “encounter” with armed guerrillas, their
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Mike Kay A Private Member’s Bill introduced by the National Party MP Tau Henare has been drawn from the ballot to be debated in Parliament. The Bill proposes to amend the Employment Relations Act as follows: “A strike may not proceed under this Act, unless the question has been submitted to a secret ballot of
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Press release Date: 18/03/2010 Due to the generosity and support of progressive people in New Zealand for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Palestinian cause, the PFLP solidarity campaign are happy to announce the first transfer of funds. One Thousand NZ Dollars raised by the campaign has been received by
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New Zealand’s involvement in the occupation of Afghanistan has been commonly perceived as a humanitarian role. John Edmundson demolishes that myth and looks at what the occupation is really about. The Situation so far On 10 August 2009, Prime Minister John Key announced that the SAS (Special Air Service) would return to Afghanistan. This announcement
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Hear Ben’s interview where he talks about the revolutionary changes in Nepal http://www.95bfm.co.nz/assets/sm/195354/3/BenPeterson.mp3
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Don Franks Well done the three antiwar activists from the Ploughshares group, and the jury who found them not guilty of burglary and intentional damage in the Wellington District Court. The not guilty verdict relates to charges laid when the men deflated one of the domes at the Waihopai spy base near Blenheim two years
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Ben Peterson’s speaking tour of New Zealand began today in Auckland. Tomorrow he’s being interviewed by Mikey Havoc on 95bFM at 8.15, and speaking at Auckland university at 1pm. Ben gives a fascinating, first hand account of the big changes taking place in Nepal.
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Activists gathered in Auckland today outside the US consulate to protest the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Marking the anniversary of the Iraq invasion 7 years ago the protesters demand the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all foreign troops, including and especially the NZ SAS and other military in Afghanistan. The Workers Party had a
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Reprinted from UNITYblog Ben was kind enough to answer some questions for UNITYblog about his experiences in Nepal. When did you go to Nepal? How long were you there for? I was in Nepal last year from the beginning of March to July, about four and half months in total. Why did you go to
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