If the family home were excluded, and the tax applied to aggregate wealth in excess of, say $5million…..,,
If the family home were excluded, and the tax applied to aggregate wealth in excess of, say, $5 million……,
I too have used “working people” as a euphemism for class and as a signal about for whom and why the Labour Party was created. A return to class analysis is overdue as the globalisation of wealth differences requires that understanding. There remain within...
It strikes me that all ethnic groups divide on class lines, that is, ethnicity is a challenging basis upon which to argue for alternatives to Capitalism. Whilst post Modernism has wasted so much time and effort in renewing a tired pluralist understanding ...
I think the Clark government tried to adhere to traditional Labour values, but had to deal with consequences of a decade or more of neo-liberal groundwork and ideology. it was assailed for doing so e.g. the ERA fight. Thereafter, in the roiling process ...
Do you mean me? If so, go for it 😊
Indeed. And many others feel the same.
No decision on leadership of the Labour Party should be made today. Any decisions about leadership should follow a careful and comprehensive review of, first, the recent campaign, and. second, the broader settings in which Labour has chosen to work in ...
It is a sad moment when a principled stand on the fundamental platform for a fairer society is described by a competent journalist as petulant. Such was the gist of Claire Trevett’s recent Herald piece on David Parker’s exit from the Taxation portfolio. ...
My support for fundamental tax reform is long-established. The two most immediately-responsible and knowledgeable ministers (Robertson and Parker) also favour reform. The PM’s dismissal of tax reform begs the questions: when will it ever be the time for ...
The attacks in the “dangerous” Left in the UK LP have long roots going back to Harold Wilson and before (remember the "….tightly-knit group of politically-motivated men” about the dockers). Militant took on the role of whipping boy subsequently. Mr Starmer...
I think a few people see this as a serious idea, and not a stalking horse. There are currents of a pernicious ageism flowing, no doubt justified by previous reverse behaviours. Another current in contemporary pluralism’s hold on politics.
You know, I think, that to be the case. And the same person you took to task for partnership work later. Always consistently grounded in a class analysis.
A fair analysis, with perhaps one further point needed. Those of us grounded in what many see (wrongly, I suggest) as an outdated class perspective place some emphasis on the long-term drift of the Party and left politics away from that class perspective ...
The employer party in the ILO had been gearing up for some time to use the ILO as a weapon against organised labour. The ILO traditionally advocated both worker voice and collective bargaining (in 1919, as an antidote to Communism). Employers (one of the ...
And, as I think you understand, that's why I remain convinced that the only route forward for sustainable progressive economic and social policies is a Labour Party committed to a sustainable post capitalist (indeed, socialist) society, which, in turn, ...
Churls who do not recognise the achievements of this government in the face of extraordinary adversity are to be expected. In particular, the Left’s ability to praise or thank is striking. When we mount our high horse of rectitude we make Austen’s Mr ...
To be clear, my desire is precisely to rebuild a strong party base that is committed to socialist principles. That project is made easer by the recent rule change, but requires party members to decide if they see the party's future as a class based party ...
It’s a debate, but the important question is whether the simple change today is allowed to lead to that debate. If we don’t get this right now, we face very difficult times in the future as the electoral cycle plays out.
I’ve tried the “Render unto Caesar” shorthand explanation but it confused Mr Trotter. I see voting on The Leader as a limited exercise of power which brings with it a much greater threat - the loss of presidential and council authority to a unitary ...
Happily here because this is an issue of fundamental importance for the future of the Party. I can’t do the historical argument justice here, but the LP Constitution emerged as a clever way to balance the interests of the Party - long-term, through the ...
I strongly support: 1) the proposal to return the choice of parliamentary leader to the Caucus. I would have returned to the pre-2012 arrangement happily. The 2012 changes may have given party members a vote on the leadership but they simultaneously ...
Thank you.
It is true that Labour could have done better for the tertiary sector than they did. And to be fair to them, they made real efforts in a number of areas (interest free loans, increased numbers, increases in research funding, giving Auckland U.a big chunk ...
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