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Uprising in Catalonia
Catalonia’s independence referendum – outlawed by the Spanish state – has been taking place today, Sunday. As voting closed, activist David Karvala spoke to Socialist Aotearoa from outside a polling...
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Bring Them Here
“In the West there was panic when the migrants multiplied on the highways. Men of property were terrified for their property. Men who had never been hungry saw the eyes of the hungry. Men who had never...
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Migrant Workers Fight Back.
Migrant workers are among the most vulnerable and exploited sections of the working class. The system and its laws conspire to put them in a position where they are easy targets, often too afraid to...
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History of the Russian Revolution
Just reading Trotsky’s the history of the Russian Revolution. A large book with huge detail and amazing insight into the psychology and treachery of the counter revolutionary forces, and of course...
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Can we save Capitalism or should we save the world?
Capitalism has a problem. This is rather universally believed, with the main dispute being what that problem is. For many capitalists, the problem is an image problem or perhaps a more substantial...
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Why is the Media Silent About This... Aotearoa Rallies for Justice in Palestine
"Why is the media silent about this"... The words of Palestinian refugee Billy Hania echoed through the town square as about 100 people rallied for justice in Palestine. That morning 10 people killed...
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A Return to Union Solidarity.
To attempt a gargantuan struggle alone is a mammoth task indeed. Just as we unite together to fight the bosses unions must band together in solidarity when the negotiations break down and the struggle...
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A couple of months back, PSA union leader Erin Polaczuk told the Listener magazine she was glad to be operating in a ‘mature era’, where battles are won in court rather than on testosterone-fuelled...
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A Return to the "Oppositional Behavior of Last Century"
A couple of months back, PSA union leader Erin Polaczuk told the Listener magazine she was glad to be operating in a ‘mature era’, where battles are won in court rather than on testosterone-fuelled...
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Rising in the North, South, and West Heath Sector Workers Reject 2%.
From Middlemore to Whangarei Base and in little old Waitakere hospital the health sector workers are making the voices heard. At Middlemore over 300 nurses and health sector workers rallied supported...
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Health sector workers pay dispute and Labour's "Independent" pay panel.
From Middlemore to Whangarei Base and in little old Waitakere hospital the health sector workers have been making their voices heard in recent weeks. At Middlemore over 300 nurses and health sector...
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May 68: The year that Paris erupted
It’s 50 years since Paris witnessed the incredible power of workers and students united, as millions took to the streets to challenge the reactionary French state, and shook the very class system to...
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It's time to call their bluff.
Workers are gaining confidence since the election of the new Govt. Now is the time to push forward.There is a pervasive myth on the left that while we may want to see significant, systemic change to...
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Solidarity With All Immigrants.
Just as you don’t have to be Palestinian to understand the brutality of Israeli policy in Gaza and the West Bank, or gay to feel the horror the cleansing in Chechnya, so you don’t have to be a parent...
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The Rank and File mobilize time to listen to the workers.
The nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants have been on a what is now turning out to be a long and windy road to getting their work rights. Long and windy to the detriment of the workers as the...
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A Perilous Position
The members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation working at the country's public hospitals and DHB provided services are in a perilous position since the union's leaders abruptly cancelled one of the...
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A wake up call: the Far Right in Aotearoa
Today around 80 supporters of the far right gathered in Aotea Square brandishing placards in support of Tommy Robinson. Robinson is a former member of the fascist British National Party, and founded...
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Strike Wave Continues
On a cold and windy day primary school teachers and principals hold a day of strike all over New Zealand.It was one of the biggest marches on Auckland's Queen Street. Some say 7000, others say 10,000...
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Democracy For Sale
Many adjectives have been used this week for the unfolding saga between Simon Bridges and Jamie Lee Ross in the National Party – racist, ugly, disgraceful, corrupt, jihadi Jami……..One Chinese, two...
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Where’s the Justice? MoJ Workers Fight For a Fair Deal
Staff at the Ministry of Justice have been amongst the tens of thousands of workers who have gone on strike this year. Read a report on the struggle so far, and what is coming next, as PSA members...
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Trade Unionists Support Our Teachers
Can We Afford to Pay Teachers and Nurses? This year has seen a remarkable upsurge in workers' struggle. Union members, largely but not exclusively in the public service, are demonstrating loud and...
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No Pride In the Police
Part “Hobson’s Pledge”, part “Blue Lives Matter”, with a thin rainbow veneer. Their rhetoric appears to be lifted straight from talkback radio. Intimidation, gas-lighting the victims of police...
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The Rainbow Rejects the Thin Blue Line
While the French are rising up against their government and being confronted with armed police and tanks, Auckland’s queer community are in the midst of a small battle of their own. Thursday December...
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Jacinda Ardern’s Resignation Is Anything But Simple - It’s Time For The Left...
Interview with Joe Carolan by Jennifer Pannell. The sudden resignation of Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand and Labour Party Leader, on the 19th January this year was a shock to many...
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