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Press release Criticisms of the junior doctors’ strike by Council of Trade Unions president Helen Kelly are ill timed and highly questionable, says Workers Party national organiser Daphna Whitmore. “Traditionally unions extend solidarity during strike action, not issue public condemnation”. “Medical staff do not take strike action lightly, and the doctors have been negotiating since…
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Featured session topics: Elections and the Revolutionary Movement in Nepal Resisting Imperialism – speakers on the Philippines, Afghanistan, Cuba and Palestine 1968: The Year of Revolution The Rise and Fall of the Polynesian Panther Party Building a Fighting Union Movement Debate: Should Socialists Support Open Borders? Plus the official launch of the Workers Party’s 2008…
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– Daphna Whitmore Some walked for miles to cast their vote. It was soon clear millions had voted for radical change in Nepal. The Maoists are by far the largest party in the Constituent Assembly and have promised to end the feudal-monarchy and to mobilise against poverty and repression. The groundswell began in 1996 with…
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Australian soldiers in East Timor: the Anzac myth plays a major role in legitimising this sort of imperialist military intervention Every year we are told that the young men whose lives were snuffed out at Gallipoli died gloriously for our freedom. We are told that the “liberties” we supposedly enjoy in New Zealand today exist…
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April marks the 60th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre when up to 250 Palestinians, mainly old men, women and children, were massacred by Israeli forces during the establishment of the modern state of Israel. Come along to this month’s Christchurch Workers’ Forum and hear how and why the Israeli state was set up through…
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– Tim Bowron and Don Franks On April 17 manufacturer Fisher & Paykel announced that it would be closing its Mosgiel plant near Dunedin and shifting production to Mexico, Thailand and Italy with the loss of some 430 jobs. Hard on the heels of this announcement came the news that Dunedin textile firm Tamahine Knitwear…
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The announcement of over 1000 job losses yesterday is certainly bad news for New Zealand workers, yet while various commentators have blamed the latest round of redundancies on the high dollar or the free trade agreement with China, this disappearance of jobs is nothing new, in 2007 job losses made the news almost every other…
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Press Release The Workers Party (NZ) welcomes the victory of the Maoists in the Nepalese elections. Jared Phillips, a Workers Party activist who spent four weeks in the Red Zones of Nepal in 2003, meeting with activists and leaders of the Maoist movement and witnessing first- hand the progressive reforms being implemented in the rural…
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The following article is taken from the April 3 issue of the Weekly Worker, paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain: After the Mugabe era James Turley asks what MDC rule would mean for Zimbabwe’s workers. On April 2 the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, which had been claiming victory since the polls closed,…
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Photo: ABN/Prensa Miraflores. View video footage here President Chávez meets with his people at Miraflores By Heison Moreno for ABN/YVKE Mundial Translated by Tim Bowron for The Spark The head of state celebrated this April 13 together with hundreds of Venezuelans who were out on the streets of Caracas since the early morning. The President…
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