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  • Crucified on Christmas Island

    The death of 30 asylum seekers, whose overloaded wooden boat crashed on the rocks of Christmas Island and sank, speaks volumes about immigration controls. This 21st century barbarism needs to be abolished, just as the slave trade was. In the past year 5000 people made their way to Australia in flimsy boats via Indonesia. Most Read more

  • Book Review: For the Win

    Cory Doctorow, Tor and craphound.com, 2010 The Spark December 2010 – January 2011 Byron Clark ‘For The Win’ is possibly one of 2010’s best works of fiction, at least for those readers who enjoy books that deal with big issues. Paraphrasing other writers in the genre, author Cory Doctorow has said that “good science fiction Read more

  • NZ Council of Trade Unions on Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement / A worker’s comment

    “Trade is only a small part of these negotiations”, said Bill Rosenberg, CTU Policy Director and Economist, who will be the CTU observer. “In fact most of the proposed agreement covers areas like foreign investment rules, empowering foreign companies to sue our government, opening our services to more international competition, our right to regulate, pharmaceutical Read more

  • Voluntary Student Membership (VSM) – A socialist perspective

    The Spark December 2010 – January 2011 Joel Cosgrove (Wellington Workers Party branch organiser and former president of Victoria University Students’ Association). The Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill is making its way through parliament to make student union membership voluntary. Most people will be totally unaware of the bill and what it means, and Read more

  • What the Workers Party is about

    All the registered parties got the following email a few weeks ago: Dear Parties, I am an 18 year old female. I would really like to be interested in politics, but I don’t know anything about it! I graduated high school 1 year ago, and for a few years political representitives have making sure I Read more

  • 43rd anniversary of the PFLP’s founding

      Tens of thousands of members and  supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine gathered on December 11, 2010, in Gaza City’s Palestine Stadium, marking the forty-third anniversary of the PFLP’s founding in a mass rally. Palestinians from all sectors – men and women, elderly and children, workers and farmers, attended the Read more