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  • Marxism 2008: check out some of the talks

    Hear John Edmundson at Marxism 2008 on Afghanistan’s long-running resistance New Zealand has been at war in Afghanistan since the beginning of that war, but people could be excused for not realising this. While the war in Iraq has made the news, Afghanistan is more or less ignored and New Zealand’s involvement is even less Read more

  • A Teacher for Peter Conway?

    – Don Franks NZ Council of Trade Unions economist Peter Conway’s reponse to the Budget included a request for the minimum wage to be $15 an hour. However, the bulk of his statement was fulsome praise for Labour’s “timely” “positive initiatives”. Peter summed up the government’s record: ” In other words it has been a Read more

  • Labour’s brightest and best?

    – Don Franks As Labour sinks deeper in the polls, political commentators speculate about the party’s future in opposition. Are there any bright spots shining among the ruins? One very promising ‘new talent’, who, according to columnist Matthew Hooton “should go straight to Labour’s front bench”, is Wellington Central candidate Grant Robertson. You can form Read more

  • Workers Party message on the death of Ka Bel

    The death of the Filipino workers’ leader Crispin “Ka Bel” Beltran is a sad occasion for the many New Zealanders he inspired. Ka Bel visited New Zealand on several occasions and maintained links with activists here.In his teens Ka Bel joined the guerrilla movement against the Japanese occupation. After the war he became a militant Read more

  • Lies and truth about food prices

    – John Edmundson Nobody trying to pay their bills recently could have failed to notice the way basic foods have increased in price. In New Zealand, we’ve suffered massive increases in the price of staple items like bread, milk and other dairy products. Turn on the news and it is immediately obvious that this is Read more

  • WP Seminar and Documentary Screening: 1968 – The Year of Revolutions

    Saturday May 24, Christchurch WEA (59 Gloucester St) Beginning 1pm with a session on * The Tet Offensive  – this session will also look at protests within the US in 1968 Followed by sessions on: * The May-June worker-student strikes and occupations in France * The rebellion in Yugoslavia and the ‘Prague Spring’ in Czechoslovakia Read more