Workers and their unions must defend right to free speech
Unionists the world over have been victims of the lack of free speech in societies run by and for the wealthy 1%.
New Zealand Politics
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“…And That’s How You Get Nazis” – The Polish Example
What if these “anti-Nazi” measures are, in point of fact, at least occasionally “how you get Nazis”?
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This is how you respond to Don Brash: Willie Jackson’s 2017 Orewa Speech
In July 2017, Willie Jackson gave a speech at the very same Rotary Club Don Brash did his Orewa Speech, to respond directly to Brash’s speech 13 years earlier. Using the leaked emails in Nicky Hager’s ‘Hollow Men’, it remains one of the best take downs of the true Brash agenda.
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Better Health & Safety Laws Could Have Stopped The 1981 Tour!
The 1980s were such unenlightened times. The appalling events of that era could never happen in the Aotearoa-New Zealand of 2018. Our health and safety laws simply wouldn’t permit it!
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NZNO lose control of their nurse members and what it could mean for the entire NZ Union movement
There is a fascinating dynamic we are staring to see with increasingly militant members of Unions wanting far more than their Unions are able to negotiate.
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Is anyone from the Woke Left firebombing the University of Auckland for platforming Don Brash?
Please Allah, drain all the electric bikes of their battery power and food poison the tofu so the Woke Left are too ill or without transport to arrive and make this worse.
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The new Government are failing to stop the war on beneficiaries and the poor
We all know Jacinda is busy juggling motherhood and the country, but the poor are being failed.
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As the planet melts – The Greens decide to ‘reclaim’ the C-word
Look, I’m sure this type of feminist reclaiming of empowerment (#empowerment #girlpower) goes down well like a bag of strap-ons at an anti-heteronormative patriarchy coven kink munch meeting, but sweet Christ, you can’t seriously be considering reclaiming the word ‘cunt’ as a party political position can you?
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MUST READ: Trade for All is a lie
It has taken almost a year for the not-so-new Labour-led government to act on its promise of an inclusive and progressive new trade strategy. Only, ‘act’ a far too generous description. It’s too little, too late. The terms of reference signed off by the Cabinet are not going to explore the real reasons why Kiwis, among many others around the world, have turned their backs on these agreements.
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The new Government in NZ need to stop seeing the slump in business confidence as some snarky micro-aggression sub-tweet by Employers
The bosses will attempt to claim a living wage and slightly better Union protection for workers is what has spooked them, but that’s bullshit, the real reasons for a downturn in confidence however are worth looking at.