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  • Why have women left the Occupy movement?

    Byron Clark, Coordinating editor of The Spark The Occupy movement began as a movement championing the “99%” united against the 1% of the world’s population that control a disproportionate amount the worlds wealth. A possible flaw in this is that oppression is not as simple as a 99:1 ratio and exists within the working class Read more

  • Green Left Weekly: Wharfies beat lockout

    This article by Workers Party member Joel Cosgrove originally appeared in Green Left Weekly. In what has been described as New Zealand’s most high-profile and bitter industrial dispute since the early 1990s, waterside workers went back to work, after a four-week strike. Auckland’s port company agreed to end its lockout of 235 workers on March Read more

  • Meat industry dispute reveals need to re-organise entire working class on militant basis

    By writers for The Spark The livelihoods of thousands of working class people in New Zealand are being attacked by Talleys Group Ltd, a New Zealand-based private company which owns AFFCO meat-processing plants and has locked out freezing workers throughout the North Island. Background As one of the largest meat operations in New Zealand, Talleys Read more

  • Green Left Weekly: New Zealand workers fight casualisation

    This article, by Workers Party member Joel Cosgrove, originally appeared in Green Left Weekly. A number of high-profile industrial struggles are unfolding in New Zealand. About 1500 aged care workers, members of the Service and Food Workers Union, are taking part in rolling strikes against a 1% pay rise offer. About 750 meat workers have Read more

  • Green Left Weekly: Atrocity in Afghanistan fuels opposition to occupation

    This article, by Tony Iltis, originally appeared on Green Left Weekly and will be republished in the April Spark. For the US military and the pro-war Western corporate media, the March 11 slaughter of 16 civilians, nine of them children, as they slept in their homes in the villages of Alkozai and Najeeban in Panjwai Read more

  • Zizek: What to make of the political Elvis (Wellington event)

    “[Zizek uses] a dizzying array of wildly entertaining and often quite maddening rhetorical strategies are deployed in order to beguile, browbeat, dumbfound, dazzle, confuse, mislead, overwhelm, and generally subdue the reader into acceptance.” Edward R. O’Neill Slavoj Zizek is one of the worlds most well-known and controversial philosophers. As a Marxist theoretical thinker, he refuses Read more