The biggest lesson for NZ Left from Corbyn’s defeat – go truly radical in 2023
There is one graph that illustrates the biggest lesson for the NZ Left from Corbyn’s defeat, it’s this one…
New Zealand Politics
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TDB 2019 Politics Awards
It’s the end of the year and it’s been a frenetic one politically. Jacinda promised transformation and clearly didn’t know…
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The Trick Of Winning Power Under Capitalism
CORBYN’S DEFEAT, and the defeat of the Labour Party his leadership made possible, is a defeat for the Left everywhere.
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Dr Liz Gordon: National gets excited
The National Party must be feeling emboldened by Boris’s win. That win was predicated, to a great extent, on the notion that if you say things over and over, people will begin to believe you. This is the only way I can understand the profligate and wasteful two page spread in this morning’s paper. The navy blue ink was not quite dry – it stained my hand a little.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Opposite reactions
It is an axiom of Newtonian science that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. This is, of course, an expression about force in the physical world. But to a great extent in recent times it seems to be about politics, and about the opposites which are simultaneously in the public view in this complex world.
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Is Winston’s Sudden Enthusiasm For Foreign-Owned Media A Case Of Enlightened Self Interest?
What if the New Zealand First sudden out-of-the-blue announcement of support for journalism and ‘traditional media’ in general, as well as two significant media companies that’re looking to merge in particular …
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The Daily Blog 7 NZ Heroes of 2019
2019 was year of pain and suffering with only tiny infant steps of progress but there were amongst us people who led fearlessly and with courage. If we are to seek meaning from the last 12 months around our Sun, let’s do that by saluting those of us who led by example and hope we can attempt to emulate their strength.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – J’ACCUSE…!
Why the silence, WHY NO OUTCRY OF ANGER, from our mainstream media?
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Labouring Under A False Narrative – On The UK’s 2019 Election Outcome And What It Means For ‘Left’ Parties Elsewhere
In many ways, this should have been UK Labour’s election to lose. Or, at least, do a helluvalot better on with the Cons on the back, flat, bear-trapped-and-mangled foot.
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Dalziel’s election expenses return is a sick joke on Christchurch citizens
Christchurch City Mayor Lianne Dalziel’s election expenses return, filed on the last day today, makes a mockery of her claims to have “high expectations of openness and transparency”.