A crisis of the system that no amount of spending can fix
In the words of Rosa Luxemburg, it is “Socialism or Barbarism”
Setting the Agenda
Political analysis and commentary shaping the progressive debate in Aotearoa New Zealand, focused on power, policy, and accountability.
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The future starts here!
Below is the final report of the Alternative Aotearoa Seminar held in Wellington on 25 July 2020
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Dr Liz Gordon: The virus is back
In my last blog I speculated that a breakout of community infection of the Covid virus was the one thing that could harm Labour’s chances at the election.
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The “Childish Brutality” Of The National Party
IF YOU’RE THINKING that, lately, something strange has happened to the National Party, then, clearly, you don’t know the Nats! Just read the following passage from Bill Sutch’s incomparable history, The Quest For Security In New Zealand 1840 to 1966:
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Dr Liz Gordon: The Covid election
So it has come to pass that this election has been anointed, by our great leader, the Covid election.
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National Debacle Over Stripper Allegations Shows Trajectory Party Is On
There are bad news cycles, there are poor news weeks lacking in cut-through – and then there’s whatever’s happening with the Opposition. Wherein they’ve transcended mere mediocrity to start showing their true colours in the most inadvertent and unintentional of ways, splashed across our headlines.
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Droning mercilessly on . . . and on – Israeli surveillance and terror
For Palestinians in Gaza, living with an almost non-stop air raid atmosphere, life is never peaceful or normal.
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Reefer Madness follows criticism of cannabis referendum bill
What is driving two academics to criticise the Government’s information campaign for the cannabis referendum?
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75 plus 35 years – the Hiroshima and Rainbow Warrior nuclear rewinds
While the globe struggles to cope with the deadly onslaught of the covid-19 pandemic, communicators, historians, journalists and activists have been deploying innovative ways of marking three nuclear-related anniversaries in barely a month.
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Does the Left know how to fix Capitalism?
Young New Zealanders who have grown up in the neoliberal era of low inflation, small and weak private sector unions, and low-to-stagnant income growth will find it difficult to imagine an annual inflation rate of 14 percent with wage rises to match