The sacking of Rob Campbell from Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand is a blow to working class political rights.
What the state demands of its senior civil servants is loyalty to the capitalist class.
The forestry companies must be held accountable
“Send them the bill for cleaning up the slash and for repairing the destruction it caused. If they can’t pay, confiscate their land to pay the costs.”
Problems of the soil – Marx, Malthus, and George Monbiot
Large-scale industry and industrially pursued large-scale agriculture have the same effect. If they are originally distinguished by the fact that the former lays waste and ruins labour-power and thus the […]
How workers can fight the rising cost of living
But even the best wage increases achieved today are rapidly eroded by inflation. We need to demand regular, annual government-mandated wage increases that match the rise in the cost of living. When there is a labour shortage, as there is now, conditions are favourable for such a fight.
There’s a storm brewing
What the local elections foretell I am one of the large majority who did not vote in the recent mayoral and local elections in New Zealand – not because I […]
Antony Beevor re-re-re-re-re-resurrects the old slanders against the Bolsheviks
First of two posts on the Russian Civil War of 1918-21 Antony Beevor is probably the world’s best-known contemporary writer on twentieth-century military history. His books have sold in excess […]
Name and prosecute the cops who killed Shargin Stephens!
It is now six years since the police tormented Rotorua man Shargin Stephens day and night for more than a month with incessant and utterly unjustified ‘bail checks,’ and then, […]
Notes on the life of my brother: Andrew Robb, 1955-2022
When we were very young, my mother was in the habit of dressing my brother and me in identical clothes, which often led people to ask us if we were […]
How not to conduct a scientific debate: Royal Society, university split over matauranga Maori and science
A long-running and tetchy argument over science education in New Zealand has polarised academics at Auckland University and shattered one of the central institutions of science, the Royal Society. International […]
Two wars over Ukraine
Pacifists and liberals are fond of repeating the old adage that ‘the first casualty of war is the truth.’ In fact, the exact contrary is far closer to the truth: […]
A worker at large 