A strong marxist movement is a benefit for working class people. Look how RD Muldoon treated us commos and used the state forces against us…
It is historical, and goes back to the dissolution of the old FOL in 1987 and the tripartite approach of Ken Douglas and friends–they wanted to make nice with people that wanted nothing less than the destruction of organised labour in NZ–as illustrated by ...
Agree with almost all of your analysis here WEKA, the future has to be eco socialism–and no doubt there are hundreds of opinions on what that might mean…don’t worry about the maddies too much re Israel, they often turn out to be tiny militant minorities or...
Private Prison expansion seems one likely goal of Act re Three Strikes. Bump up the numbers, increase profits for capital–baked beans on paper plates with a side of brutality. Kelvin Davis and Labour actually got the numbers down by several thousand with ...
Agree. If Big Norm had a life trainer and proper medical care…have you read Margaret Hayward’s book “Dairy of the Kirk Years”? Got the Big Norm record off a friend and noticed his copy was signed on the back by…Roger Douglas and Michael Bassett among other...
Teachers did themselves proud during the Hekia Parata era National Standards & Charter School campaigns.
Yes, there are patsy interviews all over at the moment, including RNZ. The outrage and horror over 3 Waters…and diddly said about 3 Ministers seemingly being able to fast track whatever they want.
Call me old fashioned, but the PSA should be taking strategic industrial action right now on the thousands of public servant and contractor job slashings–and please don’t bother raising technicalities such as bargaining process agreements and “political ...
“Dracula’s Daughters”–Willis, van Velden & Stanford…borrowing for tax cuts has to be a double bind of the worst kind…public services slashed while the already well off get a nice top up…David Seymour should be trespassed from any child education facility ...
How about a Hundertwasser green NZ “MAGA” hat…“Make Aotearoa NZ Great Again”…with MAGA in tiny font…there are dangers in copying such filth I guess but it could also make a statement in some settings.
Robert Reich is correct here. Trump’s general sleazery makes little odds for most–it is expected of him. The Evangelicals look the other way because he delivers their agenda, while liberals view him as a dog turd on the footpath, best avoided. Nonetheless…...
Ms. Lee was a mediocre lifestyle presenter at best, and seems obviously under skilled for the machinations of Ministerial life–her main skill might just be crawling–to explain her rise in the ranks. She is also rather good at avoiding public scrutiny and ...
There are enough psychos in the Knesset, and butchers in the IDF, to not care as long as US Imperialism has their hideous backs and keeps the guns’n’money flow happening. The goal for these zionists is to raze Gaza, eliminate as many Palestinians as ...
Pat’s great, a hands on advocate and practitioner for years.
It is profoundly negative that in a sparsely occupied long narrow country (apart from the Tauranga, Hamilton, Auckland triangle) of barely 5 mill population that this type of crap can go down in 2024. Renters are approaching 50% of households now, so this ...
Re this COC Govt. once Winston has to hand over his Deputy PM possie to Atlas Dave he could well turn on them. Not suggesting it would involve principles! Pre the last election he had a letter prepared for the Governor General withdrawing support for PM ...
Call me old school, but the rule of thumb from a class left view is to unite all who can be united around certain things to build organisation and success. Mr Hipkins sunk NZ Labour with his Cap’n’s Call from afar on wealth tax and CGT and will be replaced...
The Bish’, one Mr Brian Scamaki.
Yep, effective comms people and deep pockets, it is almost seen as unpatriotic to criticise dairy. “They” grabbed the narrative on Three Waters also, which sees people the country over facing substantial rate rises, with still no clear solution to the ...
Heh, that ranks up there with the classic courtroom question “when did you stop beating your wife?” Not that it is anyone on The Standards business, I have been vegetarian most of my adult life, not an easy achievement in early days as an industrial worker...
His mincing pronunciation makes him difficult to listen to on any subject. He is a classic right opportunist and crawler, feigning reasonableness depending on his audience. I have not forgotten “Dirty Politics” and his Slateroil days.
For sure, have watched CC since a kid and still do. The funny thing is these days they include more new age farmers running on solar, horticulturists with interesting crops, more women involved in farmwork, organic growers–and they get complaints sometimes...
Meat remains murder–how ever much people like to be in denial when they get it in plastic trays or already cooked from where ever. I predict many more vegetarians if people had to kill and butcher their own meat supplies. The Far North where I live has a ...
Yes as per tWig’s link. Looks like the gun registry that Labour set up–an essential tool in tracking who has what–will be repealed. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/06/government-officially-establishes-gun-register-act-vows-to-repeal-it-if-...
It is, a pleasant surprise.
Well, well, well–a gun lobbyist Act MP misleads the public on the semi-automatic weapon issue…Mrs McKee has talked up there being over 6600 people licensed to possess semis, whereas there are only 1593 allowed to possess the banned weapons–presumably ...
Is this an Israeli Embassy handout or similar? It makes no odds if Israel finds a cure for cancer if they continue to run an Apartheid State–which they do with walls, cages, brutality, imprisonment of minors, attacks on religious services and funerals, and...
What a hilarious comment–do realise how many Palestinians have been “relocated” over the 75 years of occupation? No relocation needed for Jewish people that pull their heads in and are willing to live in harmony with the rest in one state. Right of return ...
I am not immune, just frustrated at what to do from our distance. The IDF are filthy butchers and the Knesset loaded to the gunwales with psychopaths seemingly determined to eradicate Palestinians in Gaza as much as the Nazis did jews in the WWII Warsaw ...
Suicide Prevention Office to be canned–what could be a likely result of that one might ask… Thousands of public servants & contractors to be slashed also…will they be on the pitiful “Job Seeker Allowance” subject to the sadistic maze that is WINZ/MSD, or ...
Whatever the political stripe if he is pointing out the obvious about Israel’s behaviour in public, good on Mr Duncan. Unlike our current Govt. Ministers, RNZ now seems to get important stories via OIAs because Natzo Ministers regularly refuse interviews.
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