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Mike Walker On September the 29th of this year Richard Goldstone, a Jewish South African, presented the findings of a UN Fact Finding mission to the Council of Human Rights in Geneva. The Mission’s Mandate was to investigate; “all violations of International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law” during the December/January Israeli offensive in
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7:30pm Wednesday, 16th December Paramount, 25 Courtenay Place
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Reprinted from an article by Rebellion (Danish language site.) The court case against Rebellion (Denmark) for support to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) is now approaching. The demand is imprisonment. The court case takes place at Copenhagen City 6. Court, December 3 and December 7, 2009 and January 8, January 15, 2010. The
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British Lance Corporal Joe Glenton faces charges for refusing to return to Afghanistan, instead joining the anti-war movement. Activists in Wellington held a solidarity demo outside the British High Commission, opposing imperialist war. Send messages of solidarity to: joeisinnocent@hotmail.co.uk
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The Spark November 2009 Philip Ferguson One of the issues that has arisen with the current recession is the responsibility of banks for the partial meltdown in the financial sphere. Sections of both the left and the right had traditionally targeted banks, a practice that has become more pronounced with the new recession. For instance,
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The Spark November 2009 Mike Kay The disappearance of two year old Aisling Symes in the west Auckland suburb of Henderson on 5 October dominated the headlines over the next few days. There was mounting speculation that the toddler had been abducted. TVNZ sent their Sensing Murder “medium” Deb Webber to “assist” the Symes, a
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The Spark November 2009 Jared Phillips The lockout of Talleys-owned Open Country Cheese workers came to an end in late October 2009 after a legal and industrial struggle waged by the Dairy Workers Union (DWU) and its members. The Open Country Cheese site is a self-contained dairy factory in Waharoa, a few minutes drive north
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The Spark November 2009 Jared Phillips The revolutionary movement in India, under the leadership of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), has expanded its base over the last three to four years through regroupment of the movement and also through consolidation of its support in urban centers. Consequently, the Indian state has extended its ban
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PRESS RELEASE: Invercargill mayor and 1960s protest figure Tim Shadbolt and distinguished NZ film-maker Gaylene Preston have added their names to the list of those calling for the administration at Victoria University to lift the two-year trespass ban it imposed recently on Wellington workers’ rights activists Joel Cosgrove and Heleyni Pratley. Cosgrove, a former students
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The SPARK interviews long serving anti-imperialist activist and Workers Party secretary Daphna Whitmore Spark: It’s been 8 years since New Zealand troops were sent to Afghanistan – why did the Labour-Alliance government send them in the first place? It needs to be understood in the context of New Zealand’s involvement with US and British imperialism.
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