What’s abhorrent? John Key, whaling, and racism
John Key is engaging in a bout of populist moralising, describing killing whales as ‘abhorrent’ in response to South Korea’s indication that they may resume whaling. The hypocrisy is staggering – this same week National has announced further concessions to New Zealand’s dirty and polluting farming industry. If the concept of killing whales is ‘abhorrent’, what about farming […]
What is Socialism?
The world today seems pretty messed up. Everywhere you look, there are wars going on, people are being ripped off by companies and governments the world over. Racism and sexism is as alive today as it was 20 or 50 or 100 years ago and your average person on the street has absolutely no control […]
ACT: a pre-emptive autopsy
Maori-bashing millionaire Louis Crimp is hammering the last nails into Act’s coffin; but his outburst will encourage Act’s heir apparent, the Conservative Party, as well as the growth of real fascist forces. In an extraordinary outburst, Crimp rehashed mainstream right wing views that blame Maori for being imprisoned and unemployed and lambasted funding of Maori […]
Free Taame Iti and Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara!
Free Taame Iti and Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara! Taame Iti and Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara have been sentenced to 2 and a-half years jail for possession of unlicensed firearms and Molotov cocktails. Urs Signer and Emily Bailey’s adjurned sentencing – and the suggestion of home detention – suggests further injustice to come. This is a shameful end to […]
Reflections on the Ports of Auckland dispute
The Ports of Auckland company (POAL) is wholly owned by Auckland Council, run by Labour Party member Mayor Len Brown and Labour-led City Vision ticket councilors. In base treachery these council leaders have been overseeing an attempted re-run of the 1951 defeat of the Auckland wharfies. Labour Party leader David Shearer first struck a pose […]
Low paid women in revolt: Nationalise Oceania!
Low paid aged care workers at Oceania homes have been driven to revolt. Members of the Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota and nurses in the NZNO first struck on 1st March, and again on 7th. Stopwork meetings took place on 14th March and strikes on the 19th and again on 5th April. […]
War to the knife: Meat workers fight back
Multi-millionaire Kiwi capitalists the Talley family have launched an attack on freezing workers they employ at AFFCO plants in the North Island. Talley’s control a huge chunk of New Zealand’s food production and make fat profits. The freezing workers they employ are willing to fight for the right to a union contract. And that’s why […]
AFFCO Workers Stand Strong in Te Puke
“We’re gonna march, march, march to victory! We’re gonna fight right to the end! For workers’ rights, and freedom! Aue! Ake, ake, kia kaha e!” A new take on the folk song dedicated to the Māori Battalion echoed through the streets of Te Puke on Saturday as over 500 locked-out meat workers, whānau and supporters made their […]
Wellington Queers the Night!
At least 200 people congregated in Waitangi Park, Wellington, and marched on Friday the 11th of May, 2012, as part of the second annual Queer the Night march against homophobia and transphobia. Why march? Here’s some of the reasons from the leaflet created and distributed by the Queer Avengers: “In 2011, after a series of […]
“Aotearoa is not for sale” – Auckland protests privatisation
[Cory Anderson was one of the thousands who joined the hikoi in Auckland last Saturday. Here is his report. On Friday the hikoi gathers at Wellington, marching from Te Papa from 10am. Students in We Are the University will be marching from VUW at 11.30 to join the main rally]Last Saturday, the movement against asset […]
