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  • SANTA’S SONG (tune: Feliz Navidad)

    Every year it’s the same – a fucking big pain For no personal gain, giving millions of things away It gives me the blues – squeezing down dirty flues An obese old guy shouldn’t have to be slaving this way So – thank god for the atheists The muslims and buddists The jews and the Read more

  • Nepal and India – Storm clouds on the horizon

    The Spark December 2010 – January 2011 In Nepal and India, the people are rising up in revolution. Millions of people are arguing, marching in the streets and burning down police stations as they struggle to imagine and bring into existence a whole new world. Nepal is a country where the government has almost no Read more

  • Fighting back in Europe

    The Spark December 2010 – January 2011 In the aftermath of the Greek bailout there was a lot of talk about the other vulnerable European economies that could have followed the collapse into bankruptcy of the Greek economy. Top of the list of vulnerable Euro zone economies were Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain. Of these, Read more

  • Danny the Red

    Don Franks Because he once stood against Tom Skinner for FoL president, Danny Nichols will always rate at least  a footnote in bourgeois labour movement history. Which is more than most other shop floor militants get, because so much of our working class history never makes the scholarly pages. But it’s a simple fact that Read more

  • Palestinian Organisations added to the New Zealand ‘Terrorist List’

    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 Read more

  • Unite Union’s first national conference

    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 Read more