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New Zealand ‘support’ for Palestinian Statehood no step forward
It might seem like an advance for the cause of the Palestinians; Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully has announced that New Zealand will be supporting a vote in the United Nations recognising...
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Stop Imperialism! Stop The TPPA!
The TPPA began life as a proposal for a free-trade pact between four Pacific nations that are relatively insignificant on the world stage: Brunei, Chile, Singapore and New Zealand. The entry of the...
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The Labour leadership battle
From the outset of last year’s leadership contest Shearer was the choice of the capitalist class to take over from Phil Goff. There was a reason for that; Shearer was distinctly the right-wing...
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Treaty settlements, Maori workers, and the corporate model
The wealth of Maori business is estimated to be around $37 billion but with 60,000 Maori children living in poverty, Mana MP Hone Harawira has suggested to iwi leaders that “maybe it was time we turned...
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Marching against the TPPA: What really happened
Between 200 – 300 people marched in Auckland yesterday against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the latest ‘free’ trade agreement designed to give maximum gains to New Zealand business and pain...
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Forestry bosses have blood on their hands
13 forestry workers have died in work related accidents in the past 3 years, 30 in the last 6 years. Just to put this in perspective the death rate in the UK forestry industry is 10.4 per 100,000...
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MANA Feeds the Kids
This morning the Otara Leisure Centre reminded me of the photos I’ve seen of the Black Panther Party’s food parcel drive. Thousands of brown paper bags filled with sandwiches, fruit and juice packed...
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Marriage Equality: Aye, do!
We won. 77 – 44. The ayes have it. It feels wonderful. I’d shed a few tears even before the final vote came through. It was not the quality of the speeches in Parliament, necessarily, although some of...
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‘Pakeha Party’ page: Racist backlash against the Mana movement
A Facebook page – The Pakeha Party – has been launched in response to the Mana Movement’s Maori housing policy announcement during the Ikaroa-Rawhiti by election. This is the second racist backlash in...
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“Roastbusters”, rape, misogyny and the police
What an appalling set of stories. Each day it gets worse. Revelations of the abuse suffered by young women in Auckland over the last few years, and then further revelations of how their stories and...
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