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  1. More Herald journalists sacked

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 3:39 pm, September 18th, 2015 -  67 comments
    Categories: business, journalism, newspapers
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    Very bad news for all those losing their jobs, commiserations to you. It’s a pretty heartless economy out there, and pretty soon there won’t be anyone left to comment on it. Consumers of celebrity gossip will still have it good though, so I guess that’s something.

  2. Andrew Little – Our values and interests on the world stage

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:50 pm, September 10th, 2015 -  54 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, labour, Politics
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    Text of a speech delivered today by Andrew Little to Whanganui Grey Power where he talks about New Zealand’s tradition of standing up for our values and interests on the world stage.

  3. Stewart on our rubbish media

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 12:27 pm, September 2nd, 2015 -  30 comments
    Categories: journalism, Media
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    Rachel Stewart has had some time out with the flu (sorry to hear it). It has left her with time to reflect on our media…

  4. Serco – the company that fails at providing public services

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 11:55 am, August 30th, 2015 -  34 comments
    Categories: Kelvin Davis, national
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    They were, until a few months ago, the biggest company you’d never heard of.  They failed in the UK, they failed in Australia and they’ve failed here in our prisons. But they are still making good profits here. They’re a company dedicated, it seems, to making a profit while failing to deliver lots of different public services. We don’t need or want them here.

  5. Watkins on health and safety mess

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 10:02 am, August 27th, 2015 -  17 comments
    Categories: accountability, health and safety, national
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    “John Key’s increasingly lacklustre defence of the shambles consists of answers that sound more like satire by the day.”

  6. Guest post: How the left should respond to financial crises

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 8:00 am, August 27th, 2015 -  136 comments
    Categories: capitalism, class war, Politics
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    In a guest post Ad suggests that in this time of crisis the left should set out a plan for handling the crisis, rather than hoping that a new order will emerge.

  7. NRT: We can no longer trust Bill English’s OIA responses

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 12:38 pm, August 26th, 2015 -  8 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, bill english
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    I/S at No Right Turn writes on the latest abuse of the OIA process.

  8. “Wall St braces for a brutal open after China rout”

    Written By:  Colonial Viper -  Date published: 10:12 pm, August 24th, 2015 -  121 comments
    Categories: capitalism, Economy, Financial markets
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    Wall St opens for trading in a few hours. When websites like MarketWatch start headlining using words like “brutal”, “rout”, “panics” and “carnage” you know it’s time to grab the popcorn and buckle in for what might potentially (and finally) be the start of GFC 2 proper.

  9. Hard left Corbyn receives public backing from 41 leading economists

    Written By:  Colonial Viper -  Date published: 7:56 am, August 24th, 2015 -  118 comments
    Categories: capitalism, class war, Economy, Globalisation, manufacturing, Privatisation, uk politics
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    Jeremy Corbyn announces the potential renationalisation of privatised state assets, with minimal compensation. While 41 leading economists back his anti-austerity stance. This is what left wing leadership and courage looks like.

  10. Zero integrity on zero hours

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 2:53 pm, August 21st, 2015 -  4 comments
    Categories: accountability, class war, human rights, national, same old national, Unions
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    If you thought the Nats promising to sort out zero hours contracts was too good to be true — you were right.

  11. John Key’s brighter future is not for everyone

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 1:43 pm, August 20th, 2015 -  46 comments
    Categories: class, john key, national, same old national
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    While beneficiary numbers decrease the incidence of beneficiaries being trespassed and the numbers of pregnant women living homeless is increasing. Are we really seeing things improve or are more and more people falling through the cracks?

  12. Parsing John Key on TPPA

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 1:32 pm, August 17th, 2015 -  72 comments
    Categories: john key, making shit up, Media, slippery, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, winston peters, you couldn't make this shit up
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    John Key made some outlandish claims about TPPA opponents this morning on the Paul Henry show.  And in response, as usual, he was not pulled up on his claims by his interviewer.

  13. Radicals, Reformists or Revolutionaries? Ideologies of the Left.

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 7:19 am, August 14th, 2015 -  62 comments
    Categories: admin, notices, The Standard
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    James Gluck is doing an academic study of the ideologies that exist on the left. He is asking for those interested to participate in a anonymous online survey.

  14. Corbyn and the Overton Window

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 4:09 am, August 13th, 2015 -  100 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    A recent YouGov poll in the Times predicts Jeremy Corbyn will win the UK Labour leadership on first preferences alone.  If he does win, Corbyn will shift the “Overton Window” of acceptable ideas leftward in the face of formidable opposition.

  15. #Sheepgate – Key’s cheerleaders are sent in

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:06 am, August 7th, 2015 -  62 comments
    Categories: john key, national, national/act government, same old national, trade, you couldn't make this shit up
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    John Armstrong thinks that National has bested Labour over #sheepgate because Key keeps saying it is all Labour’s fault.  And Hosking thinks the payment has a good business case despite the payment having not achieved the result that was being sought,

  16. Let’s Lynch the Landlord

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 9:45 am, August 3rd, 2015 -  53 comments
    Categories: accountability, class war, health, human rights, same old national, tenants' rights
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    As The Standard said at the time, the Government’s decision to destroy Relationships Aotearoa could be a colossal stuff up. And this morning we learn that a Canterbury landlord has allowed access to the sensitive files left behind when RA closed. Anne Tolley must act or Anne Tolley must go.

  17. Weekend reading for the Nats

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 9:02 am, August 3rd, 2015 -  14 comments
    Categories: accountability, class war, economy, journalism, national
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    There were some good opinion pieces published over the weekend. Not comfortable reading for the Nats.

  18. Absurdistan

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 7:09 am, August 2nd, 2015 -  39 comments
    Categories: accountability, class war, journalism
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    An excellent piece by Graham Adams – well worth reading the whole thing in Metro, but here are some extracts “on the slow unravelling of a small democracy”.

  19. National’s lightweight conference

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 6:30 am, July 27th, 2015 -  25 comments
    Categories: national
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    National had a conference in the weekend. They used it to re-announce some Labour policy, but otherwise if you noticed it was probably because of the protest outside.

  20. Signposts and weathercocks

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:09 pm, July 19th, 2015 -  18 comments
    Categories: crosby textor, Politics, uk politics
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    In Mhairi Black’s maiden speech she talked about signpost politicians whose principles are clear and weathercock politicians whose principles shift with the breeze.

  21. Doledrums

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 10:08 am, July 18th, 2015 -  33 comments
    Categories: benefits, Economy, exports, jobs, welfare
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    C’mon people, sing along!

    ‘The benefit arrives and life goes on, the benefit arrives and life goes on …’

    National have failed and they have no idea what to do about it. But I do.

    Election now, please.

  22. #ThisIsACoup

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:08 am, July 14th, 2015 -  137 comments
    Categories: class war, Europe, International
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    Twitter has responded to the savage terms of the deal that Greece has signed with other EU countries by the mass use of the hashtag #ThisIsACoup.

  23. “Labour values” are more than a talking point

    Written By:  Stephanie Rodgers -  Date published: 8:30 am, July 10th, 2015 -  164 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, labour
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    What does it actually mean when we say “my values are Labour’s values”?

  24. The Canterbury rebuild

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:58 am, July 9th, 2015 -  20 comments
    Categories: blogs, christchurch earthquake, democratic participation, disaster, Gerry Brownlee, national, same old national
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    The Canterbury Rebuild grinds on with news that CERA is to be replaced by a new entity dubbed Regenerate Canterbury.  But is a name change all that is required?

  25. Emissions targets an admission that we don’t care

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:02 am, July 8th, 2015 -  48 comments
    Categories: climate change, disaster, global warming
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    The emissions reduction target decided by the Nat government is an admission that we as a country don’t give a stuff about the future.

  26. Police using “sealed” Hager documents?

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:14 am, July 7th, 2015 -  48 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, law, police
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    Nicky Hager’s lawyer claims that the police are using supposedly “sealed” information taken in the raid of Hager’s home.

  27. Bill English’s groundhog decades

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 9:14 am, July 6th, 2015 -  45 comments
    Categories: bill english, exports, farming, national, same old national
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    Bill English is a strange denizen of National’s Wellington groundhog set. He keeps repeating the wet dreams that have been tried three times now and come up as failures each time. On Q&A yesterday he played with some silly numbers about dairy, ignoring the damage that it and National’s obsessive focus on the past has done on the resilience of our  export economy.

  28. School lunches – Key vs data

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:11 am, July 6th, 2015 -  29 comments
    Categories: act, class war, national, peter dunne, poverty, schools
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    Key claimed that the number of hungry kids in schools was limited to “the odd one or two”. Everyone knew it was nonsense. Now a survey by the New Zealand Principals’ Federation indicates the true extent of the problem.

  29. Bust up in New Zealand First?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:00 am, July 2nd, 2015 -  16 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    Radio New Zealand has reported on sources claiming that New Zealand First Deputy Leader Tracy Martin will this week be replaced as deputy by Ron Mark.

  30. Gender, Power and Culture

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 9:07 pm, June 24th, 2015 -  10 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    Catriona MacLennan and Prue Hyman will discuss this topic at Connolly Hall, Guildford Terrace, Wellington, Thursday June 25th at 5:30pm. All welcome. Read more…

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