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  • “Cast Lead” – A Proportionate Response in Palestine?

    Mike Walker On September the 29th of this year Richard Goldstone, a Jewish South African, presented the findings of a UN Fact Finding mission to the Council of Human Rights in Geneva. The Mission’s Mandate was to investigate; “all violations of International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law” during the December/January Israeli offensive in Read more

  • Wgtn upcoming event: album release gig

    7:30pm Wednesday, 16th December Paramount, 25 Courtenay Place Read more

  • Challenge international “terror” legislation

    Reprinted from an article by Rebellion (Danish language site.) The court case against Rebellion (Denmark) for support to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) is now approaching. The demand is imprisonment. The court case takes place at Copenhagen City 6. Court, December 3 and December 7, 2009 and January 8, January 15, 2010. The Read more

  • Solidarity picket with Joe Glenton and the people of Afghanistan

    British Lance Corporal Joe Glenton faces charges for refusing to return to Afghanistan, instead joining the anti-war movement. Activists in Wellington held a solidarity demo outside the British High Commission, opposing imperialist war. Send messages of solidarity to: joeisinnocent@hotmail.co.uk Read more

  • Bad banks or bad capitalism?

    The Spark November 2009 Philip Ferguson One of the issues that has arisen with the current recession is the responsibility of banks for the partial meltdown in the financial sphere.  Sections of both the left and the right had traditionally targeted banks, a practice that has become more pronounced with the new recession.  For instance, Read more

  • Doing the “drains up” on a tragedy

    The Spark November 2009 Mike Kay  The disappearance of two year old Aisling Symes in the west Auckland suburb of Henderson on 5 October dominated the headlines over the next few days. There was mounting speculation that the toddler had been abducted. TVNZ sent their Sensing Murder “medium” Deb Webber to “assist” the Symes, a Read more