Election ’17 Countdown: Joyce – let the lolly scramble begin!
You can tell it’s election year; the lolly-scramble (aka, hint of tax cuts) has begun;
Author: The Daily Blog
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Why I’d Be Voting For Joe Carolan In The Mt Albert By-Election
I want Labour to run ‘to the left’ of where they were in 2014 – both because I’m sick of quasi-center-right warmed-over neoliberalism masquerading as progressive economic policy … but also because I genuinely believe that moving to the left will help Labour’s prospects later this year in September.
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Political Caption Competition
When the mainstream media scream ‘fake news’
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Daily Blog Guerrilla Radio – Rage Against The Machine – Born of a Broken Man
Daily Blog Guerrilla Radio – Rage Against The Machine – Born of a Broken Man
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Monday 20th February 2017
5: Trump Kicks Off 2020 by Ripping into the Media
4: UN says civilians at extreme risk as west Mosul offensive begins
3: Images of new bleaching on Great Barrier Reef heighten fears of coral death
2: Samuel Ronan: Democrats ignored working class for years
1: AS CONSTRUCTION NEAR STANDING ROCK RESTARTS, PIPELINE FIGHTS FLARE ACROSS THE U.S. -
The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 20th February 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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GUEST BLOG: Paul (the bloke The Standard banned for 3 years) – Fake news
Do the mainstream media think we’ve forgotten the fake news about the Kuwaiti girl Nayirah who claimed to have seen Iraqi soldiers taking babies out of incubators during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait? You know, when they repeated the lies of Bush Senior get the US population to accept the invasion of Iraq.
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GUEST BLOG: Alex Birchall – Identity Politics is a Class Politics
Around the world, but very prominently in New Zealand, the turn away from class politics to identity politics as the principal organisational form of the Left occurred just as the social democratic compromise was undone and inequality began to rise again. Unlike class politics, which unites workers of all colours, genders, and sexualities to oppose capitalism, identity politics was not able to deal with this reconsolidation of power by the capitalist and new financial elite.
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GUEST BLOG: Tina Ngata – A Crook By Any Other Name: Celebrating Cook
Well there goes another February 14th. Evenings of whimsical sighs, chinking champagne glasses, and adoring compliments across the Pacific as indigenous folks send their thanks out to the Hawaiian cousins that took care of business, and finally put an end to the diseased, kidnapping, murderous, thieving invader called Captain James Cook.
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ALRANZ Poll Shows NZ is Pro-Choice
A majority of New Zealanders support abortion on request, proving our outdated laws need urgent reform, ALRANZ Abortion Rights Aotearoa…