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  • Fiji Election: Crooks in Suits

    Byron Clark (Fightback/MANA Otautahi). On September 17 Fiji held its first election since Voreqe “Frank” Bainimarama  seized power in a 2006 coup. With his Fiji First party receiving 59.2% of the vote, Bainimarama will remain in power. Aman Ravindra-Singh, a candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party took so social media in the following days to Read more

  • Marshall Island poet speaks at UN climate summit

    The people of Micronesia are some of the most at risk from climate change, yet some of the least responsible. Following this speech, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner is supporting the direction action taking place in Australia tomorrow.  From 350.org “The fossil fuel industry is the biggest threat to our very existence as Pacific Islanders. We stand to Read more

  • Why workers need our own “foreign policy” based on solidarity

    Article by Mike Treen, UNITE Union General Secretary (but the views expressed are his own and not necessarily those of UNITE). Reprinted from UNITE and the Daily Blog. Working people in the advanced capitalist world should reject appeals by the rulers of their countries to support the foreign policy of “their” country. Inevitably that foreign Read more

  • 10,000 Workers Strike in Support of Hong Kong’s Protests

    Article by Michelle Chen, reprinted from The Nation. The umbrella is a perfect icon for Hong Kong’s uprising: inclusive, aloof, a bit Anglophile and pragmatically defiant of the elements (and according to cinematic lore, readily convertible to a lethal kung fu weapon). It embodies the central plea of the protesters amassed in “Democracy Square”: a Read more

  • ANZ workers strike

    ANZ workers across Aotearoa/NZ (members of FIRST Union) went on strike today, for secure hours and better wages. ANZ indebts customers and undermines staff, while CEO David Hisco makes over $2000/hr. With more attacks on unions, workers and beneficiaries on the way, collective action like this is exactly what we need. Kia kaha! See also Employment relations bill Read more

  • Hone Harawira’s farewell speech

    Ten years ago I led 50,000 Maori on the historic FORESHORE AND SEABED MARCH from Te Rerenga Wairua to the very steps of this parliament, in a march against the greatest land grab in the history of this country – Labour’s theft of the foreshore and seabed – a watershed moment for Maori because it Read more