Stats confirm growing housing shortfall – Labour Party
National’s failure to fix the housing shortage has been starkly illustrated by new statistics, says Labour Housing spokesperson Phil Twyford….
National’s failure to fix the housing shortage has been starkly illustrated by new statistics, says Labour Housing spokesperson Phil Twyford….
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TWO BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS TODAY. The first came from the New Zealand Initiative and purported to be about improving our education system. The second came from the Supreme Court of New Zealand and had the effect of stopping the Ruataniwha Dam in its tracks. On the face of it these two announcements have nothing whatsoever in common. What links them, however, is the way in which both demonstrate how dramatically Kiwi neoliberalism’s room for manoeuvre has shrunk.
A new campaign designed to challenge the compulsory hijab law in Iran is encouraging women to show their support by wearing white headscarves in public every Wednesday.
Election fever is on the rise. Paraphrasing Lenin, elections are those things when every few years we rise up as alienated subjects and entrust our lives to a bunch of the paid servants of capital. That makes us slaves of capital. Bourgeois parliament is a fig-leaf for bourgeois class rule in a state that is the “organising committee of the capitalist class”. Elections therefore only legitimate capitalist class rule in the name of democracy, which, when examined, turns out to be a fraud.
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OKAY, so the game is rigged. Well spotted. Now, what should be done about it? That’s the $64,000 question. Because understanding that one lives inside a corrupt system does not automatically lead to political action. Indeed, it’s as likely to lead to resignation and despair as it is to anger and revolt.
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