Arguments In Favour Of Raising Cigarette Prices Are A Costly Smokescreen For Revenue-Raising
Another year, another hike in the price of cigarettes.
New Zealand Politics
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Why we must occupy state houses in 2017
Activists from many campaign groups united pledging material and physical solidarity to stop the ethnic and social cleansing of working class Glen Innes, built on Maori land to provide “homes for heroes” after the suffering of two world wars and the Depression.
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Green-Labour Damage Control finally kicks in
The joint State of the Nation address is a very smart move by Labour and the Greens. The purpose of Unity and the symbolism of that Unity is what gives voters confidence to vote for them. No one wants to vote for a Party that looks like it’s going to rip itself to pieces 30 seconds after getting elected.
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Don’t Riot For A Better Society: Vote For One!
I learned that Rogernomics had unlocked something ugly and selfish in older and younger middle class New Zealanders alike. In the minds of those 10,000 students – the people we would come to know as “Generation X” – a free tertiary education was simply their entitlement.
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All that is wrong with NZ politics in one simple devastating chart – it’s time to riot
…when 2 NZers have more than the poorest 30% of the entire nation, the time for debate is over and the time to riot is upon us.
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Grotesqueness of NZ inequality – 2 richest own as much as bottom 30%
How grotesque a joke is our egalitarianism now?
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Q & A with Joe Carolan, Socialist candidate for the Auckland electorate of Mt Albert – beware eco-fascism & lovely liberals
What we’re actually asking people to do is get involved in movements. If you want to fight for rent control, then join the housing movement. If you’re concerned about low pay, join a union. We’ll come and show you how to organise your workplace, how to fight back, get a big pay increase. These things are possible without politicians but it IS politics. Working class politics.
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Clever politics by Winston at Pike River while Greens fight Labour in Mt Albert
While the Greens and Labour needlessly fight each other in a fortnight in Mt Albert, Winston is at Pike River telling those families that re-entering the mine will be a non-negotiable bottom line of any co-alition.
Christ that’s clever.
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St John management applies tourniquet to workers’ throats
Charitable organisation, St John, which operates ambulance services nationwide, as well as other medical services, has been engaging in anti-worker actions during recent industrial negotiations to conclude a collective agreement.
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Juliet Moses does NOT speak for ALL New Zealanders
The assertion by Juliet Moses on 6 January in the New Zealand Herald article, Israel vote was an affront to all New Zealanders, echoes the arrogance of Zionism’s unjustifiable claim to speak and act on behalf of all Jews.