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– Laurie Garnett Auckland’s SkyCity casino workers have been striking since August. In the last issue of the Spark we looked at the creative tactics of the strikers who were in for the long haul. With the company not budging from its 4 percent offer, workers are keeping the pressure on the management. In the
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Click here to download our special Spark supplement which analyses the crisis currently enveloping the world financial markets and asks what it might mean for workers as well as the rest of the global economy.
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US lawyer on why it’s our right to remain silent, and why we should exercise it. And a cop backing him up:
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The voters of Wellington Central Have got a simple choice Support the man of capital Or heed the workers’ voice. CHORUS Which Franks are you on [its Don!] Which Franks are you on [its Don!] There’s Labour and there’s National And there’s New Zealand First They’re such a bunch of phonies You can’t tell who’s
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The Workers Party today became a registered political party. This means that in the upcoming 2008 general election for the first time a hard-left party will be able to contest the party list vote and be on the ballot paper in every part of the country! With just a month to go to election day
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– Workers Party Media Release Workers’ Party member Jasmine Freemantle was elected President of the Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association (VUWSA) for 2009 last Wednesday night. Freemantle was elected by a comfortable majority over her Labour Party rival Sonny Thomas, after a heated campaign that fuelled the highest voter turn out in a VUWSA
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– Tim Bowron Since 2002 when details of Iran’s nuclear program first came to light there has been much talk on the part of Western politicians and journalists about the need to prevent the regime from developing uranium enrichment and other technology that could potentially be used in military applications. As a signatory to the
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Winstone Wallboards, a division of the Fletcher Building empire and the manufacturer of GIB plasterboards has told unions that they want to cut back their Penrose, Auckland operation from four shifts to three, resulting in redundancies. The unions issued the following statement in response:
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(Wellington Central WP candidate Don Franks’ opening 5 minute address to Karori community election meeting 24/09/08) Good evening folks, thanks for inviting me to your election meeting here in the pleasant surroundings of Karori. I was brought up in a similar nice suburb on the other side of Wellington, over in Eastbourne. There, at Sunday
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