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The Spark December 2010 – January 2011 Mike Walker On the 12th of October 2010 John Key designated “a further seven international terrorist groups under the Terrorism Suppression Act”. He claimed it helped “implement our international obligations under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373”. Under this pretence the addition of Palestinian organisations, Palestinian Islamic Jihad
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The Spark December 2010 – January 2011 Mike Kay, an editor of The Spark, caught up with Mike Treen, National Director of Unite just after its first national delegates conference on 25-26 November, which was followed by a one day political conference. The Spark: This was the first national Unite conference. Why did you decide
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Byron Clark The Spark December 2010 – January 2011 There is a famous slogan from a banner carried by striking miners at Waihi in 1912, “If blood be the price of your cursed wealth, good god we have bought it fair”. The slogan brings up images of early twentieth century industrialism; gruelingly hard work in
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éirígí 01/12/10 As the clock counts down to what many believe will be the harshest budget in the history of the Twenty-Six County state, resistance appears to be gathering momentum. éirígí has long argued that the savage assault being waged against the working class by the neo-liberal establishment in Dublin can be overturned through a
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Note that this article does not necessarily represent the views of the whole party. Don Franks Below the big beaming blue and red billboards it was vacuous capitalist personality politics as usual. Labour’s candidate claiming to be “working for Mana’ was Labour Party leader Phil Goff’s press secretary. The best National’s Hekia Parata could produce
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Daphna Whitmore While the Pike River mining disaster was unfolding the National Government passed new laws to curb workers’ rights. International mining experts say that the mass deaths in Pike River should not have happened in a modern mine in a developed country. Perhaps they were unaware of the marginalised status of unions in New
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The following report was drawn up by the Irish Marxist group, Socialist Democracy 10 November 2010 I Introduction The Irish State is one of the most globalised in the world and for nearly two decades was held up as a model of economic development across Europe and further afield. Now it is in severe crisis
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The following article is by the Irish socialist-republican group, éirígí 20/11/10 ICTU Protest, Saturday November 27th, 12pm, Wood Quay, Dublin Budget Night Protest, March to Leinster House. Assemble 5.30pm, Tues December 7th, Wolfe Tone Monument, Stephen’s Green, Dublin Introducing the catastrophic €400 billion [£340 billion] blanket bank guarantee scheme in September 2008, Twenty-Six County finance
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As we learned this afternoon, the rescue we hoped for will not take place. Because of a second major explosion the miners at the Pike river site are all almost certainly dead. Hard questions remain to be answered and there will be a struggle for the truth to see the light. As that inevitable struggle
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In advance of Ronald Trifero Nelson’s theatrical adaptation of Mates and Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand, Spark correspondent Ian Anderson reviews the original book. The Spark November 2010 Chris Brickell’s Mates and Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand is an essential book for anyone interested in local social history. The first book
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