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  • Spark Audio: The Electoral Finance Act

    The following talks from a Workers Party forum in Christchurch are now available for download. John Edmundson – Background to the Electoral Finance Act Tim Bowron – Left Opposition to the Electoral Finance Act Read more

  • Tibet protests grab the headlines

    – Daphna Whitmore Recent protests in Tibet have thrown the spotlight on one of the world’s most remote regions. Led by Tibetan monks, protesters attacked Han Chinese and Hui Muslim immigrants. Tibetans say the Chinese authorities favour the new migrants while treating the locals as second-class citizens. As the government clamped down on demonstrators. reports… Read more

  • What future for peace in Palestine?

    John Edmundson Despite the victory of the radical Hamas movement in the 2006 elections to the Palestinian Authority, Israel still refuses recognise the Hamas government in Gaza, which it labels a “terrorist organisation”. Instead, it will only deal the United States-backed regime of Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah Party, which despite losing the election continues… Read more

  • Modern New Zealand unions – “fighting blindfold”?

    Philip Ferguson It’s not often that leading trade union officials in New Zealand speak openly about the exploitation of the working class, let alone about the surplus-value created by workers and expropriated by employers. Therefore, when such speeches are made, it’s useful to analyse what is being said, why, and what the political implications are… Read more

  • Redundancy – how do unions measure up?

    Don Franks The article “Who moved my job?” in the April issue of The Spark eloquently voices a worker’s experience of redundancy threats. How can workers fight back against this blight on their lives? Organised workers threatened with redundancy look to the union they belong to. It would make sense for all the unions in… Read more

  • Who moved my job?

    Rachel Tay 2007 did not get off to an auspicious start at Dynamic Controls. Fraud and subsequent law changes in America and the high Kiwi dollar led to low sales. This in turn led to low orders, leaving most of the factory staff in Christchurch with little to do for the first three months. Staff… Read more