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  • Armistice Day

    Armistice Day in 2004 saw the Return of the Unknown Soldier SQUIRE HELEN (From The Spark, November 2004) The Dominion Post (November 2004) reminded us that Prime Minister Helen Clark is also minister for arts, culture and heritage. Under that subhead, the paper carried an article by the multi-minister; “reflecting on our maturing sense of Read more

  • The Band’s Visit

    – Film review An Israeli film where most of the characters are Egyptian is something other than ordinary. When an Egyptian police band gets stuck in a small Israeli town there are all the ingredients for a comedy of errors. Stranded, with little money the eight men who are more musicans than police, spend a Read more

  • NZ Election: the morning after

    – Daphna Whitmore For the Workers Party – this was the first time a socialist party was on the party list. A red flag on the ballot paper was an achievement – and one that took a bit of work to get the numbers to satisfy the electoral commission that we qualified. We were the Read more

  • US Election: the struggle continues

    Racism is a product of class oppression; the two are fundamentally connected. The Workers Party acknowledges the history of African American struggle which has resulted in the election of Barack Obama. The vast majority of African Americans remain wage earners. Obama is considering Lawrence Summers as  head of Treasury. Former head of the World Bank, Read more

  • Celebrate anniversary of 7 Nov 1917

    Daphna Whitmore November 7, 1917 is the day the working class in the Soviet Union seized power. It marked a turning point in world history, and despite the reversals nothing can diminish the significance of that day. There are a number of people who identify as socialist but will tomorrow vote for capitalist parties because they see that as Read more

  • Greens co-leader fails to stand up for striking workers

    – Jared Phillips Yesterday after the march to the McDonald’s bosses conference at the Hyatt Hotel we returned to the Queen Street store. I was the last union official there with about 30 workers (the numbers had dropped-off by this stage). Workers were blocking-off the entrance. The strikers were fired-up. I noticed Russel Norman, Green Read more