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Keep kicking the Nats
It's gone from bad to worse for John Key's shaky coalition government. The ministerial resignation of John Banks this week, triggered by Graham McCready's private prosecution is a blow to the Nats....
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The million dollar blockade at Auckland University
"There is a million dollars of student debt sitting on the road!" a student reminded the protest blockade yesterday at Auckland University.The remark was in reference to the around 100 students from...
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Top 5 more realistic Auckland Monopoly games
According to the Council of Trade Unions around half of the wealthiest 184 New Zealanders do not pay the top tax rate. Victoria University estimates the value of tax evasion at $1 billion per year.40%...
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Aotearoa solidarity with Mi'kmaq warriors
On Saturday the 19th October 2013, around 25 people gathered outside the Canadian consulate in Auckland to show solidarity with the Mi'kmaq warriors under attack from RCMP state forces in Canada.Those...
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David Dallas - Falling Into Papatoetoe
Auckland's favourite hiphop artist David Dallas has just released a new album - Falling Into Pieces, a well produced and tightly crafted set of songs that elaborate on the core principles of Dallas'...
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The art of revolution - Learning from Sun Tsu
Lessons for socialists, from The Art of WarThe Art of War is frequently quoted by activists, but many on the Left shy away from actively grappling with the deeper lessons of this ancient text. Written...
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Stop the victimisation of union activists
Saturday's protest at Queen Street McDonald's was instigated because McDonald's sacked a union delegate for whistleblowing. In New Zealand we call it Utu, or "revenge"; the purge of delegates and...
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Coal Action from Mangatawhiri to Kanaky
On a warm Labour weekend Monday, Coal Action Auckland staged a roadside protest near the Waikato town of Mangatawhiri along State Highway 2 to draw people’s attention to the looming threat of a new...
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Red Feds and the Great Strike of 1913
Exactly 100 years ago New Zealand was experiencing its largest ever industrial dispute.The Great Strike of 1913. In the end the 16,000 strikers and their United Federation of Labour were defeated, the...
View ArticleSpeeches from the Socialism 2013 Conference
Lisa Gibson, SA and Chair of Mana Tamaki Rohe John Minto, Mana Mayoral Candidate for Auckland Shane Timmermanns, SA and Mana on Campus at Auckland University Mike Treen on the Socialist Action...
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McStrike - A Delegate's Tale
Taylor M. is a seventeen year old west Auckland McDonald's worker, Unite Union delegate and Socialist Aotearoa member. This is her account of the McStrike campaign.On April 29th, negotiations between...
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Generation of Anger - Looking for answers and change
In this talk given at Socialism 2013, Bevan M. discusses the global 'Generation of Anger', the challenges it faces and the possibilities of the moment in which it comes to age.I have been asked to talk...
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Roastbusters - The creation of a sexist society
Many people have been rightly horrified by the news that has come out in the past week of young girls being raped and the failure by authorities to act to prevent further harm. Particularly disgusting...
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A Century of Resistance- Auckland Wharfie speaks
“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction”. Eric Fromm.Modern society is plagued with workplace pressures unseen...
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Raising the Retirement Age?
There are now more people retiring than ever and less people working, so there are not enough people to pay taxes to cover the cost of the retirement pension. We are all living longer say the...
View ArticleHone Harawira Urges Workers to Fight Back
The Mana Movement MP speaks to the Unite Union 2013 National Conference.
View ArticleWorking Class Heroes of the 1913 Great Strike
Socialist Historian and Playwright Dean Parker tells Unite Union's 2013 National Conference about some of the working class men, women and childen who lived through the revolutionary moment of 1913...
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Weak, Feral, Scabs.
by Dave Phillips, Socialist Wharfie The past three years have been one of the worst industrial climates created by greed that many of us will ever see. The expectation of massive returns and a...
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