Can Labour resist the Prison Industrial Complex?
It takes far more money to heal human beings than punish them, but the results are far healthier for society as a whole.
New Zealand Politics
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“Inflamatory Remarks”
You know, it is a peculiar thing to wake up to various people demanding the expulsion of an Iranian diplomat for remarks he made at a private gathering about the state of Israel. I mean, correct me if I’m wrong about this … but it was not Iran which boldly threatened a state of war with our country only a few months ago, now, was it.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – FORESHORE AND SEABED
I was really pleased to see the response from all the Maori Party supporters over the last couple of days with my comments about the Foreshore and Seabed.
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Socialism and Populism: The Party is Just Beginning!
ZACH CASTLES is sitting, gutted, in a café overlooking the Thames. The former “National ministerial adviser”, no longer having any National ministers to advise, has clearly relocated himself to a more promising political marketplace. Even so, our brave young capitalist has taken the time to share his thoughts with The Spinoff. (Who else!) And, oh, comrades, what thoughts they are!
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New Government must burn MSD scum to the ground
The new Government must use napalm as a disinfectant to cleanse our public service and damn the squeals from the PSA – it’s time to take back our welfare system from the neoliberal scum who with sadistic glee hurt the most poor amongst us. There can be no negotiation with cancer.
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The Hobbit strikes back! Huge win for NZ Actors & workers
The Hobbit fight was nasty, needless and spiteful. Rectifying it isn’t just symbolic, it is righteous and will actually help the industry and strengthen it.
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Why the new Government is far more revolutionary than many suspect
The first hundred days is just a start, it won’t be revolution but it sure as hell will be a rapid evolution and those who put this Government together in the background understood the transformative possibility this all could bring about.
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Time for food made domestically to be subsidised for New Zealanders?
I believe it’s time NZers should be able to buy their own produce grown in this country at a price cheaper than can be sold offshore because as domestic consumers we have already paid the environmental and monopoly costs of that produce.
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The Minimum Wage decision is big win for workers and should be celebrated
It is a mistake to underestimate the importance of the decision to lift the minimum wage to $20 an hour by April 2021. This will involve a significant real increase in wages for hundreds of thousands of workers in this country.
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Strategies Of Right-Wing Resistance: It Can Happen here
CAN WE REALLY DO THIS? As the euphoria of victory wears off, and the sheer enormity of the challenge confronting…