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  • The 90-day bill – us and them

    -Jared Phillips Continuing with the New Zealand employers’ labour-flexibilisation drive, Prime Minister John Key has announced the introduction of a 90-day probationary employment bill that will allow new workers to be sacked without appeal, and it will come into force in March 2009. What it means for workers Those whose conditions will be directly attacked Read more

  • Australian socialist gives firsthand account of revolutionary Venezuela

    Peter Boyle from the Australian radical paper Green Left Weekly spoke in Auckland 9 December on his impressions of the revolutionary transformation of Venezuela. The meeting was hosted by RAM. Peter arrived in Auckland straight from Venezuela where he has spent the past three weeks. Read more

  • Declare your job a 90-day free zone!

      National plans to introduce a sacking bill before Christmas. That would mean that employers with fewer than 20 staff could sack in the first 90 days of employment without legal recrimination. National has its 90-day sacking bill on a list of legislation it wants passed in the next 100 days. This bill is an Read more

  • Imperialism after Lenin

    Philip Ferguson in a talk given in 2004 looks at the underlying forces driving world capitalism today. In Capital, Marx notes that at a certain point of development the capitalist system itself, in particular the property form, becomes an obstacle to the further development of the production forces and even to the further development of Read more

  • What can we expect from National?

    The Spark December 2008 – January 2009 – Philip Ferguson With National back in power, albeit as a minority government, what can workers expect? Is this going to be a repeat of the first term of the last National government (1990-1993), the one that produced the “mother of all budgets” (cutting the dole, the DPB Read more

  • Building an alternative movement in Ireland

    The Spark December  2008 – January 2009 A new revolutionary political organisation has emerged in Ireland in the past two years to take on British occupation in the north and social inequality throughout the whole country. The organisation is called éirígí; its chairperson, Brian Leeson, was interviewed by Philip Ferguson late last year for The Read more