Grid of posts 2×3

  • Drivers give it back to the boss

    – Nick Kelly Bruce Emson, CEO of NZ Bus, did his “travelling road show” at the Kilbirnie depot last Monday. His mission was to tell us drivers his vision for “our” company, but also to get feedback from the people who are on the ground. So midway through his bullshit company presentation Bruce goes, “Look, Read more

  • Violent crime in capitalist New Zealand

    – Byron Clark, Workers Party candidate for Christchurch Central Crime has become a hot issue in New Zealand this year. It’s an election issue largely because the major political parties are committed to maintaining the status quo on economic issues; instead they campaign on non-economic issues like “law and order” rather than wages, unemployment or Read more

  • Casualisation: real jobs and con jobs

    – Don Franks For those of us in the working class, few things are more important than having a real job. A real job produces stable predictable earnings. It pays enough for us to support ourselves and our dependants, with a bit left over for some luxuries, savings and fun. A real job is also Read more

  • UC Workers Party on Campus Events

    Student rebellion and state repression: the events of 1968 in México Continuing our series of retrospective talks on the events of 1968, this week’s WP on Campus meeting looks at the explosion of student militancy onto the streets of México City in the months leading up to the Summer Olympics of that year. Wednesday 6 Read more

  • Condoleezza says thank you

    – Daphna Whitmore Condoleezza Rice just called in to say thank you. Thanks for the “long history of partnership”. Thanks for New Zealand’s military participation in wars in Korea, the Pacific and more recently in Afghanistan. Hang on a minute, isn’t Helen Clark supposed to be a  peacenik camouflaged in a power suit? Read more

  • Christchurch WP election campaign launch

    7pm, Monday, July 28 WEA, 59 Gloucester St Meet local WP candidates Byron Clark (Christchurch Central) and Paul Hopkinson (Christchurch East). Food, drinks and revolutionary politics. Read more