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		<title>Data 4 – The Minimum Wage, MPs salaries, wealth &#038; inequality</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2024 15:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Members of parliament are to get a 10.5% pay rise over the next three years. Backbench MPs go from $163,961...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Data 3: Prices are still rising &#8211; it&#8217;s a cost of living crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[New Zealand’s consumers price index increased 4 per cent in the 12 months to the March 2024 quarter, according to...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Understanding the data 2: Why we are officially in recession</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2024 21:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The economy of New Zealand is officially in recession. New Zealand’s gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 0.1 percent during...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Understanding the data &#8211; benefits are being cut in value in real terms &#8211; but why?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The real value of benefits is being cut by switching the calculation of annual changes from the movement of the average wage...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The need to end US-imposed austerity in Cuba</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 14:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the last few weeks, the Western news media has been full of stories of “unrest” in Cuba including protests...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Marx&#8217;s theory explains capitalism&#8217;s business cycle and the need for crises (Marx&#8217;s crisis theory 4 out of 4)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2023 16:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Part 1: Part 2: Part 3:  Marx&#8217;s theory explains the business cycle and the need for crises – no alternative...]]></description>
		
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		<title>What is money and how it can be controlled (Marx’s Crisis Theory Part 3 0f 4)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2023 18:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Part 1: Part 2: Part 4: Three types of money are in existence – Gold, credit money and token money...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The debt explosion to save world capitalism (Marx&#8217;s Crisis Theory Part 2 0f 4)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2023 16:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Part 1 here: Part 3 here: Part 4 here: World capitalism got out of the 2008 and 2020 crises with...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The inflation blame game and Marx&#8217;s crisis theory (Part 1 of 4)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 17:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Part two Party three Part four Inflation is back worldwide, and with it is the blame game. So what is...]]></description>
		
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		<title>How to end race and class inequalities destroying working people’s lives in NZ</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2023 15:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A recent study found that Maori had twice the mortality from various cancers than non-Maori. This statistic is not new....]]></description>
		
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