Racism and race-baiting
Three weeks ago, the ‘Roastbusters’ revelations initiated a public outcry and an intense discussion of an issue of vital importance to the working class – the second-class status of women, […]
Monthly Archives: November 2013
“We have broken stronger wills than yours”
Some of the most impressive struggles by working people this year have been fights by those in the most difficult of circumstances, the workers behind bars. With few means for […]
Attacks on democratic rights – real and imaginary
After considerable public outcry over the misogynist comments on air by broadcasters Willie Jackson and John Tamihere, during the debate on the Roastbusters question, their show has been taken off […]
China, class collaboration, and the Indonesian killing fields
Third part of an investigation of the background to the 1965 massacre of up to a million Communist Party supporters in Indonesia, described but not explained in Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary […]
The colonial-settler labor movement: utopian and scientific socialism
In his celebrated pamphlet, “Socialism, utopian and scientific,” Friedrich Engels pays tribute to the utopian socialists who preceded the scientific socialism of Marx and himself. Among these pioneering critics of […]
Our demand: prosecute the ‘Roast Buster’ rapists!
By their own admission, a gang of young men in Auckland calling themselves the ‘Roast Busters’ has, over a period of several years, engaged in stupefying girls as young as […]
China 1927: precursor to the slaughter in Indonesia
Second part of a commentary on the catastrophic 1965 slaughter of the Indonesian workers and peasants described, but not explained, in Joshua Oppenheimer’s film ‘The Act of Killing.’ The histories […]
A worker at large 