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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
Capitalist economic and social relations had been slowly developing and strengthening within the Chinese workers’ state as far back as the aftermath of the Great Leap Forward fiasco, when the […]
The New Zealand government announced 1 December that over the coming weeks it will be deploying a force of about 65 ‘peace-keeping’ troops and police to the Solomon Islands, at […]
A worker at large 