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PRESS RELEASE Victoria University has disenrolled three students for an anti-war protest around Anzac day, and issued a warning to another student. Deborah Willis, Dean of the Humanities faculty, has disenrolled Joel Cosgrove and Alastair Reith, claiming a flag burning protest they held was serious misconduct. Ian Anderson who filmed the protest outside the Mount
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On the 12th of May, the Workers Party expelled current VUWSA president Jasmine Freemantle for flagrant violations of core working class, socialist and party principles. Since then her response has been to attempt to cover up the fact that she was expelled for consistently attempting to ride roughshod over VUWSA employees and for refusing to argue for basic socialist and
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First in Victoria University Debating Society 2009 series of public debates on topical public policy issues. (Rutherford House, 6.30pm, 11 May 2009) Third affirmative speaker Don Franks Unfortunately capitalism is not on its deathbed, but it is in a state of crisis. You don’t have to take the word of a communist union organiser – just
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Victoria university members of the Workers Party are facing charges of serious misconduct after burning the New Zealand flag. This leaflet explains the political background to the act. Why burn the New Zealand flag? The New Zealand flag is a symbol of imperialism. This is most obvious in its design, a tribute to the British
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A piece by Mike Ely reprinted from Kasama. Jaroslav writes a critique of the revolutionaries in Nepal. He rejects the idea that they may be working to show large numbers of people, through living political practice, that there is a need for a new revolution: “I am not saying [the people] had all the education they need for
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Click to enlarge. Note that Friday’s debate, Which Way Forward For Workers Today, has moved to the VUW Student Union Building.
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Wellington’s Southern Cross tavern was buzzing on May Day with the launch of Unite’s campaign for a $15 minimum wage . The Brass Razzoo band played, and were joined by a visiting group from Australia, the Hobart Grass Roots Union Choir. Auckland’s annual May Day march was joined this year by a large contingent from
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