MUST READ: Banks have created the speculative bubble and should be nationalised
Probably only one number is needed to explain the current housing crisis.
Author: Mike Treen
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MUST READ: How to end race and class inequalities destroying working people’s lives
We have to take a long, hard look at why the system has failed Maori despite three decades of progress in certain areas. There has been a significant growth in professional and middle-class layers amongst Maori which is a good thing. There has been an expansion in Maori-run businesses and assets under Maori control that deliver services directly to Maori people.
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MEDIA WATCH: Why Chris Trotter is so wrong – It’s time for working people who are white to stop identifying with our enemies
The bosses who are usually white use that fact to encourage us to think of them as people who we should share a common bond with. When they are more successful in these endeavors – like in the US Southern states – all working people are worse off – white and black.
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Printing money to save the power and wealth of the 1% is just stupid
The problem with the current measures being taken by the Reserve Bank to rescue the economy from an economic collapse is that they are directed at rescuing the wealth of the owners of big business not meeting the needs of the big majority of working people.
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Temporary migration system is broken – time for a reset with a path to residency
Employers in the agriculture sector who are screaming for help to pick their crops deserve to suffer a bit of pain.
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Bernard Hickey says it all…
Bernard Hickey’s view, worth highlighting this quote…
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Thousands sign petition for a “Pathways to residency”
In just a few days thousands of Kiwis have signed a petition to give migrants stuck in New Zealand who had made New Zealand their home a pathway to residency.
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Unions launch a pathways to residency campaign for migrant workers
A “Pathways to Residency” petition has been launched on Action Station for “normally resident migrant workers who have made New Zealand their home and deserve a place of sanctuary in today’s post-Covid world.”
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The new government has a blank page to write on
By running a campaign almost devoid of policy the government has given its supporters a blank page upon which we need to write our concerns and needs, and those of the planet we live on, into a policy for our mutual survival.
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Government needs to stop the madness of “business as usual” in state and council bodies planning layoffs
An urgent priority of the new government is to end the madness of business as usual in state or local government controlled bodies.