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  • Sue Thompson’s Paper Tiger

    The Nevada girls’ big stomper from ‘64 (contributions from The Kasama Project and Ian Anderson.) “Now U.S. imperialism is quite powerful, but in reality it isn’t. It is very weak politically because it is divorced from the masses of the people and is disliked by everybody and by the American people too. In appearance it Read more

  • Safer Communities Together’ Blues (2009) Don Franks

    Reviewed by Marika Pratley   The Spark Dec 2009/ Jan 2010 In the album ‘Safer Communities Together’ Blues Don Franks has successfully interwoven politically revolutionary words with his compositional abilities. Recorded in a student flat in Aro Valley, Wellington, ‘Safer Communities’ is comprised – musically – of a wide range of instruments which Don plays, including Read more

  • Iraq Veteran Speaks Out

    Reposted from Kasama. Read more

  • Climate Camp day of action

    A group of activists from Aotearoa Climate Camp ’09 today blockaded the stock exchange in opposition to carbon trading, a scheme which allows finance capitalists to benefit from environmental degradation. Protestors chanted the slogan, “Resist! Resist! Fight the capitalists!” Activists were detained by the police force, then released without charges. Climate Change Leaflet attached. Read more

  • The Ballad of Bantam Billy

    The Ballad of Bantam Billy: The political life and times of Bill Perkins Jack Perkins Review by Don Franks The Spark Dec 2009  – Jan 2010 My most entertaining and memorable read this year has been a self published family account titled “The Ballad of Bantam Billy”. The author is Jack Perkins, Bill Perkins’ son. Read more

  • 70,000 celebrate 42 years of PFLP Resistance

      On December the 11th 1967, in the wake of the Arab defeat in the 6 day war, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) was founded with the catch cry “Resistance until Victory”. On the 42nd anniversary of its founding the PFLP released a statement calling for an official announcement from the Read more