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    1. Mike, it happens. I know someone who joined the English Labour party (with many others) to thwart Corbyn.

  1. Israel is an extension of the West. The West (Western governments) are rotten…growing censorship needed to mask what the West has become is the result. If we Westerners do not wake up to what our governments have become, then we too, will fall prey to their rottenness. Gaza is our future too, if we stay asleep.

  2. Note that the ‘Free Speech Union’ have publicly cheered on their parent organization, the NZ Jewish Council, for calling for the suppression of anti-genocide speech as long as it’s done by government organizations and non-profits (you know… like InternetNZ).

  3. May be a lot of real unionists need to join the FSU and vote themselves onto the executive. It looks like well paid work.

    1. They wouldn’t be being funded by the Astor Foundation to back their activities if they supported human rights.

  4. I’ve just voted on this, ranking every candidate except Jonathan Ayling and Douglas Brown. 1 to 11 of the 13 running. To maximise the effect my voting can have for everyone except those two.

  5. If the left are no longer champions of free speech though, who can we expect to show up? If the Pōneke Anti-fascist Coalition doesn’t like you, that not exactly a concern.

    1. They are not here to protect free speech, they are here to weaponise it for the Right. Here was the back ground on their recent imported speaker…

      ACT Party Hosts White Genocide Conspiracy Theorist As 2025 Party Rally Keynote Speaker – Poneke Antifascist Coalition