Grid of posts 2×3

  • Film review: Waltz with Bashir

    On 27 December 2008 over 200 Palestinians were killed and 800 injured as Israel rained missiles on the highly populated Gaza strip. The aerial slaughter is the latest horror in Israel’s 60 year occupation of Palestine.  The sheer scale of Palestinian suffering relayed in the media has a numbing effect.  Art can sometimes speak more Read more

  • Communist Party of the Philippines’ 40th anniversary

    The Workers Party of New Zealand sends warm greetings to the Communist Party of the Philippines, on its 40th anniversary. The CPP has led the struggle against feudalism, capitalism and imperialism in the Philippines for four decades. Having withstood the Marcos dictatorship through to the current brutal regime of Arroyo, the CPP has been sustained Read more

  • A far left reply to Chris Trotter

    – Don Franks, Workers Party candidate for Wellington Central 2008 The Dominion Post warns of a malicious workers’ enemy currently lurking in New Zealand. What “it” supposedly “wants to see (on workers tables) are scraps of stale bread and cups of cold water.” Along with “the power and the phone cut off, holes in the Read more

  • Capitalist state just doing its job

    The sordid actions of police informant Rob Gilchrist infiltrating New Zealand activist groups is yet another case of the bourgeois state ‘just doing its job’. In this blog post John Moore argues that the left should strongly condemn the police for their actions, yet those that act with howls of surprise and shock show how Read more

  • Masport strike pays off

    Ten days of strike action has paid off for Masport Foundry workers who have won an improved pay offer as well as enhancements to overtime rates. As previously reported on this blog, the workers had rejected a 3% pay offer that excluded allowances. During their picket, they were supported by other unionists and activists from Read more

  • State snooping on activists

    Yesterday Rob Gilchrist, who had moved in activist circles for many years, was outed as a spy in a feature article in the Sunday Star Times. Ironically Gilchrist was sprung by his girlfriend who discovered suspicious emails while helping him sort out some computer issues. Gilchrist had spent a decade spying on an assortment of protest and Read more