Acting in the true Anzac spirit
On Anzac Day, militarism dresses up in the mask of pacifism. It honours the sacrifices made by the soldiers of the Great War, gives due recognition to the horrors they […]
Category Archives: police
Deaths in the coal mines and union-busting: 100 years ago in Huntly …and today
12 September marks the hundredth anniversary of the second-deadliest single mine disaster in New Zealand history. On that day in 1914, an explosion ripped through the Ralph coal mine in […]
Coerced confessions and fightbacks: the new norms of bourgeois ‘justice’
A few days ago the Central Park Five, a group of five young Black men who were framed up for the rape and assault of a jogger in New York’s […]
Abortion rights and a nasty little smear
Last Friday the New Zealand Herald reported that an unnamed rural GP (doctor) has had her practising certificate suspended for six months for the ‘crime’ of prescribing the drug Misoprostol […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
