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  • Campaigning for living wage reform – ground reports

    Unite union has launched a campaign in workplaces and communities for a national referendum on the issue of a $15 minimum wage. In this early stage of the campaign, Workers Party activists and other leftists are hitting the streets and public events to help gather the signatures to force the referendum. Here are some interesting Read more

  • Christchurch Forum: Honduras – Democracy Under Attack

    7:00pm, Monday July 27 Workers Educational Association 59 Gloucester St (map) Read more

  • Spark Audio: Interview with Matt McCarten

    The Joel Cosgrove Variety Hour interviews Matt McCarten, ex-New Labour Party President and Unite general secretary. Topics discussed include the split within the Labour Party, the Unite $15 minimum wage campaign as well as more general discussion about Union and its direction. Download here. Read more

  • Working class resistance and the economy

    John Edmundson The  Spark July 2009 The sub-prime crisis and credit crisis have finally brought an end to the “good times”. As trade has slowed down, unemployment has begun to rise and in some countries, large scale demonstrations have occurred in anger against the collapse of the economy and the attacks on workers that have Read more

  • Pacer Plus:New Zealand and Australian exploitation in the Pacific

    Byron Clark The Spark July 2009 New Zealand and Australian trade ministers met with their Pacific counterparts in Samoa to negotiate an “enhanced version” of the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) dubbed “PACER Plus”. The negotiations have been controversial for two reasons, one is the exclusion of Fiji, which New Zealand and Australia Read more

  • Free Ahmad Sa’adat

    Workers Party-PFLP solidarity blog Campaign to free Ahmad Sa’adat “This is your court and you possess the force to celebrate the trial and convict me on the basis of your lists of accusations, the public one and the secret one, and you can dictate a sentence prepared by the political and security apparatuses that are Read more