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Nelson Davila, Venezuelan charge d’affaires for Australasia, will be speaking at two public forums in Christchurch next week: Sunday March 16 2pm, Workers Educational Association, 59 Gloucester St Monday March 17 12 noon, University of Canterbury Students Association, International Room Organised by Venezuela Aotearoa Solidarity Team (VAST) and Socialist Worker Supported by the Workers Party
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UC Workers Party on Campus Public Forum Wednesday 12 March 5pm International Room, 1st floor UCSA building University of Canterbury Israel and Palestine are never far from the news and 2008 is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel and the dispossession of the Palestinian people. With the recent visit of
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Once again, whole departments and their staff (academic and general) and students are under attack at Canterbury – and other universities. The attempt by Canterbury management to abolish American Studies and Film and Theatre Studies, while also wielding the axe against Classics and Art History is an attack on jobs, knowledge and students. Universities in
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In November last year the Australian Labor Party was elected to office on a tidal wave of opposition to the previous Howard government’s industrial reforms, which had threatened to scrap award conditions as well as undermine collective bargaining rights. However, just like the New Zealand Labour Government’s introduction of the Employment Relations Act shortly after
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John Edmundson and Philip Ferguson In late 2006. IMF chief economist Raghuram Rajan declared, “The global economic expansion has been stronger in this period than at any time since the early 1970s.” Yet barely a year later, media reports are regularly speculating about upcoming economic disasters. Recent economic woes in the United States have impacted
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Tim Bowron Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. -Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852) Since Labour took office in 1999, New Zealand military forces have been deployed overseas on
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Don Franks “The presidential nomination of the Republican Party is up for grabs among a motley collection of mean-spirited law-and-order fanatics, anti-immigrant bigots and warmongers,” commented the US Socialist Worker of January 11. “This is the consequence of the crisis of the Bush administration – mired in Iraq, distrusted for its shredding of the Constitution
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To mark the 100th International Working Women’s Day (March 8), a women’s liberation activist of the 70s, Jill Brasell, reflects on progress since then. Ask a young woman today what she thinks about women’s liberation, and she’s likely to say either “What’s that?” or “We don’t need that any more – we’re liberated now.” She
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In this month’s roundup: Brackenridge workers step up their action ASTE members to strike again AA workers reject offer
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Most on the left struggle to see how the Maori and National parties could ever coalesce, or even how the Maori Party could help National into power. Surely the two parties are mortal enemies? In this article political science lecturer and blogger Bryce Edwards argues that this view fails to understand the political nature of
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