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The following article by Workers Party members Mike Kay and Byron Clark serves as a small summary of some of the recent industrial action. We note from the time of publication these struggles would have changed and we will provide fuller analysis in an upcoming issue of The Spark. The mood on the picket line at the Ports
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Join us to rally to Save Our Port and stand up for job security for the port workers and their families and for a publically owned sustainable and successful port. This is an issue for all of us – casualisation is not good for workers or their families. This is a growing story of working
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Report on the radical student movement in Chile. Reprinted from The Student Issue 4 by We Are The University (Wellington) For close to a year now, the students of Chile have been in open revolt. Demanding free education from pre-school to tertiary level, students in Chile have organised the largest social movement the country has
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2011 Year of the Protester -Arab Spring -Slutwalk -Occupy What next? 5pm Monday 12th March SU19, Student Union Building, VUW
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Over the weekend Auckland Action Against Poverty held a workshop to devise their next campaign. During the break Spark writer Ian Anderson sat down with Sue Bradford to discuss the history and future of the unemployed workers’ movement. Spark: How will National’s recently announced welfare reforms affect beneficiaries? SB: For youths of 16-17 years old
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The mood on the picket line at the Ports of Auckland remains staunch and upbeat after the first week of a four week strike. Several of other unions were flying their flags in solidarity, and a steady stream of toots in support flowed from the passing cars, trucks and trains. A number of wharfies I
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As a result of Friday’s action against media transphobia, members of the Queer Avengers (and friends) were offered an editorial to counter Rosemary McLeod’s. This piece was co-written by Ian Anderson and Rosie-Jimson Healey. EGO-TRIP: compound noun, informal. An activity done in order to increase one’s sense of self-importance. One would think that giving birth
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Joel Cosgrove Universities are an important part of modern society. The Education Act of 1989 defines them as being the “critic and conscience of society”. In practice the record has been patchy at best. Students (and staff) have historically joined in repressive actions against striking wharfies in 1913, deputised and moblised to put down peaceful
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About 50 protesters from Wellington’s Queer Avengers lobby group picketed the offices of The Dominion Post at lunchtime levelling charges of transphobia at the paper, its parent company Fairfax and the wider media. The controversy arose yesterday when veteran Dominion Post columnist Rosemary McLeod published an opinion piece entitled Why I feel for the kids
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