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  • March industrial news roundup

    In this month’s roundup: Brackenridge workers step up their action ASTE members to strike again  AA workers reject offer  Read more

  • Could the Maori Party and National do a deal?

    Most on the left struggle to see how the Maori and National parties could ever coalesce, or even how the Maori Party could help National into power. Surely the two parties are mortal enemies? In this article political science lecturer and blogger Bryce Edwards argues that this view fails to understand the political nature of Read more

  • Another brick in the wall: cops in schools

    Don Franks Police officers are being stationed inside ten South Auckland schools. From March, five officers will each spend 30 hours a week in the secondary schools, and another five staff will join them later. Manukau City Councilor Daniel Newman says the aim is to cut crime outside of school, to draw children away from Read more

  • Different kinds of money

     Editorial from this month’s issue of The Spark: Labour’s biggest donor, billionaire Owen Glenn, recently embarrassed Prime Minister Helen Clark by skiting that she wanted him in cabinet, and by angling for a diplomatic post in Monaco. Then, more strife came when Labour “forgot” to mention a $100,000 interest-free loan that Glen had given Labour Read more

  • Whatever happened to Women’s Lib?

    Auckland Workers Party forum Tuesday 4 March 6pm VENUE Upstairs meeting room, Trades Hall, 147 Great North Rd Auckland This year is the 100th anniversary of International Working Women’s Day. Daphna Whitmore examines the origins of women’s oppression and looks at the current status of women in New Zealand as well as the present state Read more

  • Christchurch Workers’ Forum

    This month’s Christchurch Workers Forum is on the Electoral Finance Act and the 2008 elections. Come along and hear and discuss: ● why the EFA is not in the interests of workers and open political debate ● the similarities between the policies of National and Labour ● what we can do to build an alternative Read more