The Liberal Agenda – Please sign this GPJA letter for a “Hands Off Venezuela” day of action March 16
Global Peace and Justice Auckland is asking for individuals and organisations to endorse the following appeal:
Mike Treen
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The Liberal Agenda – Hands Off Venezuela day of action March 16
Global Peace and Justice Auckland is asking for individuals and organisations to endorse the following appeal:
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Much has been made of the number of people “fleeing” Venezuela.
It probably doesn’t matter what type of government existed in Venezuela but a price decline of that magnitude in a country that gets 90% of its foreign exchange from oil would have been a disaster.
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A tale of two elections
We cannot allow the US empire to create another graveyard of popular hopes for freedom and independence in Venezuela today.
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Both Labour and National responsible for growth of homelessness and poverty
Basic benefit values were cut from 40% to 30 percent of the average wage in the early-1990s. Those cuts were dubbed Ruthenasia in recognition of the role of the then Minister of Finance of the newly-elected National Party Ruth Richardson who delivered the budget with the cuts.
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Facts refute critics of minimum wage increases – make the minimum wage a living wage
Many Employers and their paid servants in the so-called economics “profession” are already screaming about the proposed minimum wage hike in New Zealand to $20 an hour by April 2021.
Most of their objections amount to the repetition of dogma which they want us to believe is some sort of science. Usually, very few facts are ever advanced to support their views.
I want to look at what actually happened in New Zealand when we had a similar percentage minimum wage rise over a similar period, from 2004 to 2008.
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Labour’s declining share of national income
The economist for the Council of Trade Unions Bill Rosenberg has produced some revealing data about the resumption of the declining share of labour income in the New Zealand economy in the most recent CTU economic Bulletin.
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My position on Trans Rights
There have been some questions raised about my support for Trans rights in New Zealand that I would like to clarify.
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EXCLUSIVE: Government accounting fraud, NZ Super and austerity
The government commits a form of accounting fraud when it refuses to include the $41 billion in the NZ Super Fund as part of the government’s assets.
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Why did New Zealand suffer the worst casualty rate in World War One?
New Zealand casualty rate in that war, killed or wounded, was 58%. That is equal to one-quarter of the adult male population aged between 20 and 45 and eligible to serve. Our death rate of those who served at 16.6% was higher than that suffered by Germany!