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  • “Guilt by accusation” law stalled

    Byron Clark The Spark March 2009 The government has stalled a controversial change to copyright law that would have seen Internet Service Providers removing Internet access from anyone accused (not convicted) of violating intellectual property laws though downloading pirated music or video. The controversial clause was removed by a parliamentary select committee last year, but Read more

  • DVD Review: The Counterfeiters

    The Counterfeiters is a fictionalised account of an astonishing true story: Nazi Germany’s Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting undertaking in history. The operation forced Jewish concentration camp prisoners to produce forged banknotes, passports and even postage stamps for the benefit of the Third Reich. The movie is based on the memoirs of one of the Read more

  • For a real summit

    Don Franks The worth of the recent Jobs Summit can be summed up in one word – Sealord. The first major employment incident after the government sponsored summit was an announcement of imminent job losses from the aptly feudally titled company. Sealord, owned jointly by Nippon Suisan Kaisha of Japan and Maori tribes via Aotearoa Read more

  • Film review: MILK

    Gus Vant Sant’s new film “Milk”, is a biopic of the 1970s gay rights activist Harvey Milk, played by Sean Penn. Penn gives one of his best performances to date as the charismatic and outspoken gay leader, portraying him from his very few last days as a Republican-voting, Wall Street bureaucrat in the late 60s Read more

  • Workers rights from day 1

    Around 30 people picketed outside National MP Nicky Wagner’s office on Friday 27 February in protest at the government’s 90 day sacking law. The picket was called by the Workers Rights Campaign, a joint WP-Alliance initiative which has broadened out to involve class-struggle anarchists, Socialist Workers and anyone who wants to oppose the 90-day legislation Read more

  • Picket against new “Fire-at-Will” law in Christchurch

    Press Release: Workers Rights Campaign Canterbury’s newly-formed Workers Rights Campaign is planning a symbolic picket at the offices of Government M.P. Nicola Wagner to protest at the new “fire-at-will” provisions of New Zealand’s industrial law. Campaign spokesman Paul Piesse said today that the justification for the new law, which allows employers to sack workers within Read more