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  • Nepal votes for radical change

    – Daphna Whitmore Some walked for miles to cast their vote. It was soon clear millions had voted for radical change in Nepal. The Maoists are by far the largest party in the Constituent Assembly and have promised to end the feudal-monarchy and to mobilise against poverty and repression. The groundswell began in 1996 with Read more

  • Anzac Day: what are we celebrating?

    Australian soldiers in East Timor: the Anzac myth plays a major role in legitimising this sort of imperialist military intervention Every year we are told that the young men whose lives were snuffed out at Gallipoli died gloriously for our freedom. We are told that the “liberties” we supposedly enjoy in New Zealand today exist Read more

  • 60th anniversary of Deir Yassin

    April marks the 60th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre when up to 250 Palestinians, mainly old men, women and children, were massacred by Israeli forces during the establishment of the modern state of Israel. Come along to this month’s Christchurch Workers’ Forum and hear how and why the Israeli state was set up through Read more

  • Job losses continue, union fightback urgently needed

    – Tim Bowron and Don Franks On April 17 manufacturer Fisher & Paykel announced that it would be closing its Mosgiel plant near Dunedin and shifting production to Mexico, Thailand and Italy with the loss of some 430 jobs. Hard on the heels of this announcement came the news that Dunedin textile firm Tamahine Knitwear Read more

  • Recent job losses latest in a trend

    The announcement of over 1000 job losses yesterday is certainly bad news for New Zealand workers, yet while various commentators have blamed the latest round of redundancies on the high dollar or the free trade agreement with China, this disappearance of jobs is nothing new, in 2007 job losses made the news almost every other Read more

  • Workers Party welcomes Maoist electoral success in Nepal

    Press Release The Workers Party (NZ) welcomes the victory of the Maoists in the Nepalese elections. Jared Phillips, a Workers Party activist who spent four weeks in the Red Zones of Nepal in 2003, meeting with activists and leaders of the Maoist movement and witnessing first- hand the progressive reforms being implemented in the rural Read more