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  • Eyewitness to the revolution in Nepal: Interview with Ben Peterson

    By The Spark reporters In 2009, Ben Peterson, a young Australian member of Socialist Alliance, spent four and a half months in Nepal, spending much of his time there with the Maoist revolutionaries and speaking to them about the revolutionary process taking place there. He had been reading everything he could find on the Nepali Read more

  • Arundhati Roy on India’s revolutionaries

    In February 2010, unannounced, Arundhati Roy decided to visit the forbidding and forbidden precincts of Central India’s Dandakaranya Forests, home to a melange of tribespeople many of whom have taken up arms to protect their people against state-backed marauders and exploiters. She recorded in considerable detail the first face-to-face journalistic “encounter” with armed guerrillas, their Read more

  • Strike rights threatened

    Mike Kay A Private Member’s Bill introduced by the National Party MP Tau Henare has been drawn from the ballot to be debated in Parliament. The Bill proposes to amend the Employment Relations Act as follows: “A strike may not proceed under this Act, unless the question has been submitted to a secret ballot of Read more

  • PFLP Solidarity Campaign transfers funds to Palestinian Resistance

    Press release  Date: 18/03/2010 Due to the generosity and support of progressive people in New Zealand for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Palestinian cause, the PFLP solidarity campaign are happy to announce the first transfer of funds. One Thousand NZ Dollars raised by the campaign has been received by Read more

  • New WP pamphlet on Afghanistan

    New Zealand’s involvement in the occupation of Afghanistan has been commonly perceived as a humanitarian role. John Edmundson demolishes that myth and looks at what the occupation is really about. The Situation so far On 10 August 2009, Prime Minister John Key announced that the SAS (Special Air Service) would return to Afghanistan. This announcement Read more

  • Ben Peterson interviewed by Mikey Havoc on 95bFM

      Hear Ben’s interview where he talks about the revolutionary changes  in Nepal  http://www.95bfm.co.nz/assets/sm/195354/3/BenPeterson.mp3 Read more