Should socialists support the Internet-Mana alliance? A Reply
[The ISO recently published an article ‘Should Socialists Support the Internet-Mana Alliance?‘, the product of discussion within our organisation. This is a response and a contribution to the debate from Martin Gregory, a member of our Poneke branch.] The publication of ‘Should socialists support the Internet-Mana alliance?’ on 18 June on this website marks, in […]
Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis
Gayaal Iddamalgoda reviews Max Rashbrooke (ed.), Inequality: a New Zealand Crisis (Bridget Williams Books, 2013). You can find out more about Inequality here. The title of this book is a compelling challenge of one of the great myths of New Zealand capitalism; that being, that real poverty and inequality exists elsewhere. It is an honest, […]
Bitter fruit of the Iraq war
The Sunni rebellion sweeping Iraq is the latest chapter in the spiral of death and chaos caused by the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation. The military gains made by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have been possible only because of the turmoil and ruin inflicted by the US and its allies. The […]
Should socialists support the Internet-Mana alliance?
Sue Bradford has walked, reportedly describing the Mana-Internet alliance as a “sugar hit” of mass media publicity and cash – which, she predicts, will be followed by a crash. A sugar hit is not a bad way of describing the deal. But a sugar hit isn’t necessarily fatal if you don’t make it a habit, […]
Radical employment law reform needed, says reader
New Zealand workers and unions were hammered by a Bolger National Government king hit in 1991 in the form of the Employment Contracts Act. In 2000 they were provided with some cautious relief in the form of the Clark Government’s Employment Relations Act. Since 2008, the Key Government, aware of the ultimate unpopularity of the […]
New Zealand Today: Man Sleeps in Car after Heart Op
The Dominion Post reports that a Porirua man had a heart operation and shortly afterwards, with no housing available, had to sleep in his car for a several days. This is part of the newspaper article: Rodwell Ama, 42, was born and bred in Porirua. He had worked in the same job at Moore Wilson’s […]
Labour try to outdo National from the right
Labour has once again tried to out-do the National Party from the right – this time with calls for tighter immigration restrictions. Labour’s recent attacks on immigration should be worrying to people on the left. It seems a strange perversion of the ideals of equality that people should want to put up walls and prevent […]
The Easy Rider Tragedy and Capitalist Justice
Harry Johnson, a Socialist Review reader, writes on the very different outcomes of the Easy Rider tragedy and the Pike River disaster in the courts. The Easy Rider sank in the Foveaux Strait in 2012 after being hit by a rogue wave. One child and seven men, including the skipper, Rewai Karetai, drowned. Faced with this […]
Modi: Behind the Mask
Sajeev Kumar, a Socialist Review reader, offers his thoughts on the recent elections in India: Saffron is the colour of hindutva, but for quite some time, it is also the colour of death or shivering fear for the religious minorities of India. For some of them, it is the colour that made their life colourless, it […]
A triumph for the right in India
WITH A substantial victory in India’s national elections, the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People’s Party) and its crown prince, Narendra Modi, are set to form a national government without the need for any coalition partners. Winning a total of 282 seats in the Lok Sabha (the lower house of India’s parliament), the BJP soundly […]
