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.
The virus and capitalist society, Part 4: a note on the dialectic of cause and effect The cause of the economic slump that has brought the world economy crashing down […]
In late January, the Labour Party mayor of Auckland, Phil Goff, made a bizarre, shocking proposal: Given that there is a housing crisis in the city, with thousands of people […]
Guest post by Terry Coggan, a New Zealand Marxist and trade unionist. Part two of a two-part article entitled A Complete Theory of Capitalist Economic Crises? An Appreciation of the Work […]
Guest post by Terry Coggan, a New Zealand Marxist and trade unionist. Part One (of two parts): The implications of Marx’s theory of commodity money Few of us will ever make […]
A worker at large 