Photos of two disturbing posters ostensibly in support of Palestinians began circulating widely on X-Twitter in early March. It was claimed that the posters were distributed in Times Square in […]
Last week I was invited to speak as part of a panel discussion on the question ‘What is capitalism and why must we oppose it?’ organised by the Platypus Affiliated […]
How long will it last, this weak, divided, three-party, tail-wagging-the-dog government that was cobbled together after the October election in New Zealand? My guess is: not long, and almost certainly […]
The great military powers generally proceed on the assumption that war rests entirely on brute force: the side which is able to muster the greatest force will win. But wars […]
So this is where the ruling classes of Israel and Palestine have delivered the working people of the region and the world: to a point where both their Israeli and Palestinian components can offer only genocidal solutions. They would now like us to choose which of the two genocides is the more just and worthy of support.
The question of taxation has featured large in the vapid debates among the capitalist candidates in the general election in New Zealand. The National Party, which is likely to lead […]
End the superexploitation of immigrant workersFull union and residency rights for immigrant workers A statement from Don Franks and James Robb, Workers Now candidates for Wellington Central and Panmure-Ōtāhuhu. 31 […]
Defend the rights of freedom of assembly and freedom of speech for all Far from the vacuous slogans and salacious scandalmongering of the bourgeois parties in Parliament, a real and […]
Without the waiting lists, this entire profit-gouging business would wither and die – because why would anyone pay for an operation if you could get it free? That is why the capitalist parties, which put the profits of these businesses before the health needs of the population, will never move to abolish the waiting lists.
A policy statement from Don Franks and James Robb, Workers Now candidates in Wellington Central and Panmure-Ōtāhuhu. Workers’ housing is in a state of long-term crisis, and the situation is […]
A worker at large 