A hell of a lot happened in 1968, so this year is the 50th anniversary of a lot of important events. Some very positive, some negative, some horrendous. One of the most horrendous was the US massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai on March 16, 1968. One...
Demystifying bitcoin, another of those weird products of late capitalism: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/bitcoin-what-it-is-how-it-works-and-why-its-not-the-future/
Very good review of Wolff's book on Trump's madhouse. https://rdln.wordpress.com/2018/01/14/in-review-fire-and-fury-inside-trumps-madhouse/
My parents were Andertonites. My dad was his election campaign manager in Sydenham (later Wigram) when Jim Anderton was a Labour MP and then when he established the NLP and Alliance and they followed him out of the Alliance into the Progressives, although ...
The message of the Iranian protesters is one we could all take to heart. No longer should we choose politically between bad and worse. https://rdln.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/no-longer-should-there-be-a-choice-between-bad-and-worse-mass-protests-break-out-in...
At some point in the next 12 months there is supposed to be a referendum in Kanaky/New Caledonia on self-determination. Whether the referendum will go ahead or not actually remains a bit of an open question. In either case, the French seem determined to ...
Sad to hear of the death of Christine Keeler, one of the victims in the Profumo Scandal, although at least she lived to tell the tale, whereas poor Stephen Ward ended up committing suicide. https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/12/the-profumo-affair-a-moral-...
This fight to preserve jobs and conditions at the Aquatic Centre in Rotorua is winnable, if people rally aorund behind the workers and put maximum pressure on the mayor, CEO and Council. https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/12/06/workers-resist-redundancies-...
As Te Ara records, the dawn raids were introduced by Labour. Clark didn't *propose* merely reconstruction forces. She sent members of the NZ armed forces - they were NZM Army engineers, but they were armed. Clark remained on very good terms with George ...
Micky Savage said this: "Note to Heather the dawn raids occurred under Robert Muldoon’s National government." But the article that Micky Savage linked to said this: "Dawn raids on the homes of alleged overstayers by police had occurred in 1974 but ...
The dawn raids began under Labour. The link the author makes to the NZ history site actually says this. It then says they *intensified* under National. Helen Clark also sent members of the NZ military to iraq - just before the bidding closed for ...
Today is the 7th anniversary of the first explosion at Pike River. https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/11/14/pike-river-tragedy-without-end/
You'd think it would be easy to simply scrap the Hobbit legislation and the 90-day legislation. But the backtracking has already begun. https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/11/14/what-the-90-days-and-hobbit-legislation-reforms-tell-us-about-the-labour-led-...
Mike, I think you mean Lionel Terry NOT John Terry. Good to see Sinophobia being rejected; we have far too much of it in this country. On the White New Zealand policy, check out: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/02/07/pieces-on-the-white-new-zealand-policy/
The % vote is almost exactly the same as the actual referendum on same-sex marriage rights in the south of Ireland a couple of years ago - there it was 62% yes and 38% no. Every single constituency bar one voted Yes. The one that voted No was actually ...
Interesting thoughts on minimum wage, living wage and the workers of the world: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/10/31/a-living-wage-time-to-shift-the-boundaries-and-think-global/
One of the Labour-NZF articles of agreement is rather strange. It says this: "Record a Cabinet minute regarding the lack of process followed prior to the National-led government’s sponsorship of UNSC2334." That was a resolution, co-sponsored by NZ at the ...
The past week marks the 40th and 50th anniversaries of the killings of two of the 20th century's outstanding socialist figures, Che Guevara (executed without trial in Bolivia on October 9, 1967) and Seamus Costello (assassinated in Dublin on October 5, ...
And Steve, if the poor don't have kids, where will the next generation of workers come from - y'know the people that create the wealth that will pay for your old age.
Today marks the anniversary of the first use of nuclear weapons - the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima by the United States, the only country in the world to ever use nuclear weapons (and on civilian targets). It's also no coincidence that the ...
Anne, this is the person who said paid maternity leave would be introduced "over my dead body" and who gave us the October 2007 police state-like 'terror' raids and who, despite years of budget surpluses, wouldn't raise welfare benefits. https://rdln....
During Boris Johnson's mayoralty, ten London fire stations were closed down; three of them within the vicinity of Grenfell Tower, something which would inevitably affect response time. Paul Embery, London organiser of the Fire Brigades Union, warned in ...
Immigration is a question of workers' solidarity: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/workers-rights-internationalism-and-open-borders/
Good to scrutinise the parties and why they are up to. Just don't vote for any of them. Redline blog puts an interesting case for positive abstentionism: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/04/09/for-a-campaign-of-positive-abstention-in-the-2017-elections/
And, of course, anyone here - including 'TRP' and Lynn Prentice could at any time have clicked onto the url thoughtfully provided by Weka. Canterbury University library digitalised my PhD, so it is available on-line. Weka provided the url, I thanked him/...
..., "unsubstantial". 2. TRP says below, "Philip commented 3 or four times...
I did already supply this. I posted the link to Ann Trotter's book. The phrase used by Savage was 'piebald New Zealand'. Weka posted a link to my PhD; I pointed out that the relevant material is in chapter nine. Anyway can click on the link and see it. on ...
Cheers Weka. I deal with the period after WW1, including Labour anti-Chinese racism, in chapter 9. At present the first seven chapters are up on Redline; go to: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/02/07/pieces-on-the-white-new-zealand-policy/ I'm in Australia ...
Who was in power then Anne?
Oops, sorry Stephanie. I did actually forget this was a discussion under your article. When there are so many comments it is quite easy to forget it's not Open Mike.
That's a hoot. 'Kiwi Keith' was corrupt. He was such a sanctimonious moralist! On the other hand, in terms of economic policy, he was well to the left of where Labour is today. Phil
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