The tale of the anti-Semitic Santa
A few days ago a graphic was posted on ‘The Daily Blog’ entitled ‘Don’t forget to feed Christmas.’ Beside a grotesque Santa Claus image the text read, “Remember to support […]
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Prisoners in the US assert their humanity
Workers wanting to fight back find ways and means no matter what situation they face. In 2013 the leading role in the international workers movement was taken by workers in some […]
Greatest hypocrite of them all
Among the bourgeois politicians who lined up to eulogise Nelson Mandela over the past week, the competition for Awards in the categories Most Convenient Amnesia and Greatest Hypocrite Of All was fierce. […]
Their Mandela and ours
Their Mandela was a saintly figure, whom they first recognised in the early 1990s. His chief characteristic was the ability to forgive unspeakable crimes – their crimes. He was prepared to […]
How the ruling class sees us
The capitalist crisis runs especially deep in the United States, and has many ramifications. Sometimes a news story appears which demonstrates this better than a thousand graphs and statistics. In […]
“All Black” fatuousness and death in the forests
My first and best lesson in industrial safety happened in 1978, a few weeks after I started work on the production line at the Ford car assembly plant in Wellington […]
A communist at large 