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.
Mike Treen
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There is no alternative – We need a Green New Deal Now
“There is no alternative” or TINA was the famous cry associated with the former Prime Minister Of the UK Margaret Thatcher and the introduction of free-market fundamentalism into government policy.
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I agree with Arundhati Roy: We have a “portal” to break with the past and imagine a world anew
It is obvious that there will be a Labour-Greens government after the election given their 20 point advantage over National…
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The battle over time under late capitalism – time for a four day week
I want to celebrate the promise from Labour and the Greens that we will get another public holiday to celebrate Matarike – the star cluster that Maori use to mark the new year’s arrival.
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Emergency steps towards a Green New Deal in the 21st Century
The government should develop a national strategy to transition beyond the current system of commodity production for profit to a system based on the needs of working people and the planet.
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Thank you Michael Morrah – the state is not our friend.
Nevertheless, what has become clear is that large parts of the government bureaucracy is simply incapable of doing a job to protect working people. They appear institutionally paralyzed when it comes to seeing workers as anything other than an expense to manage rather than a power to enhance to get things done effectively.
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A crisis of the system that no amount of spending can fix
In the words of Rosa Luxemburg, it is “Socialism or Barbarism”
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Mike Treen’s speech to Alternative Aotearoa conference
I want to address a sort of big question because clearly the system is breaking down. What is that system that is breaking down? Can we do a system reset by tinkering with that system or is a more fundamental change necessary? What is the nature of that change and how do we get there? All in ten minutes of course.
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To stop exploitation “ordinarily resident” New Zealanders need permanent residence
This is a chance in a generation to do the right thing to those who have been so cruelly exploited and abused by the state as well as private employers.
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It’s time for a jobs guarantee in New Zealand
In the current crisis we have the absurd situation of the government-owned companies continuing to behave like profit-maximising private companies and sacking as many workers as they think will help achieve that goal.