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John Edmundson The Spark February 2010 The recent devastating earthquake in Haiti has put a rarely noticed country back in the headlines. Suddenly, it is the focus of everyone’s attention, from world leaders to celebrities. And that is hardly surprising – with a body count of over 150,000 in Port au Prince, the nation’s capital
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1. We are revolutionary socialists We all live in a capitalist society – which means that the working-class majority experience exploitation and poverty in order to guarantee profits and luxury for the ruling-class minority. The capitalists have many weapons at their disposal – not just the army, police, courts and prisons, but a system of
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Don Franks The 25 cent government increase in the minimum wage from 1st April was denounced by union leaders as “a cheap shot’ and “mean.” The increase to $12.75 from April 1st, 2010 is an annual increase of only two per cent. The NZ Institute of Economic Research inflation forecast is 2.3 per cent for
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People protested outside the Australian consulate in Auckland, on 18 January, as part of an international day of action to support the Tamil Asylum Seekers who have spent 100 days on a boat in Indonesia in appalling conditions. A protest organiser spoke of how 254 Tamil Asylum Seekers refused to leave the boat for fear of being
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John Edmundson The arrests of activists attempting to disrupt the appearance of Israeli Tennis player Shahar Peer has brought the issue of politics and sport back into the public eye. At the time of the anti-apartheid struggle, the issue was of great importance in New Zealand because here, it was sporting contact with racist South
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A vigil will start outside Waterhouse Coopers Tower, 186-194 Quay St, Auckland, 4pm on Monday the 18th. Then march at 5pm from Quay Street up Queen Street towards Aoeta Square. Background:
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Reviewed by Mike Kay The Help is an ambitious novel set in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s. It encapsulates a city that was a bastion of Jim Crow racism – a phalanx of state and local laws that were designed to keep black and white people separate from cradle to grave.
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Reposted from Climate and Capitalism. How is it possible that the worst polluter of carbon dioxide and other toxic emissions on the planet is not a focus of any conference discussion or proposed restrictions? By Sara Flounders In evaluating the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen — with more than 15,000 participants from 192 countries,
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by Ian Anderson Mo & Jess Kill Susie is a play about differences that can’t be resolved. The slogan announces it’s about “Three women, two guns, one room, no way out,” and the title tells us what will happen onstage. The question then becomes; who are Mo, Jess and Susie? Gary Henderson wrote Mo &
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Over the past week, 8 people have been arrested for protesting outside a tennis match involving Israeli Shahar Peer. This protest was in keeping with the Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) campaign which seeks to cut off international support for the racist state of Israel. Come along and show solidarity! 11am, Tuesday the 12th of Jan
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