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Boys (and Dads) Will Be Boys

My wife and I went to pick the kids up from creche this afternoon. The assistant supervisor broached a subject she was clearly uncomfortable with….

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Hizbullah Getting Ready for Next Round

From Ynet News Hat Tip Jihad Watch Hizbullah representative in Iran Muhammad Abdullah Sif al-Din, said Wednesday that Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah has a new…

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Debating Don Franks on Communism and South Africa

This exchange between Scott Hamilton of the Communist Workers Group and Don Franks (ex Workers Communist League, ex Socialist Workers Organisation) of the Workers Party…

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Global Cooling?… Don’t Tell the Greens

Maksimovich at Outsidethecube has an interesting post on global…..cooling. “Global cooling could develop on Earth in 50 years and have serious consequences before it is…

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Queensland Worker's "Great Red Hope"

Matt McCarten and his pal, Grant Morgan’s are best mates with the Aussie . Queensland Labor Premier Peter Beattie has called a snap election for…

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Chavez Calls Israelis "Fascists"-Again

From Zaman Online Hat Tip Phil at Whoar Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, paying a visit to China, slammed Israel on Friday condemning Israel’s strikes in…

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Pair of P.R.A.T.T.s

Like many socialists, writer Dick Scott demonstrated against the 1981 Springbok Tour of NZ. He and son Mark, certainly qualified as Pinkoes and Reds Against…

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"National Question" Part 6, Dick Scott and Parihaka

Of the three young pakeha communists active on Maori issues in the late 40s, early’50s, Noel Hilliard, Harry Evison and Dick Scott, the latter has…

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Venezuelan Communist’s Oil Threat

Luis Tascon is a leading Venezuelan parliamentarian and a founding member of the Movement for the Fifth Republic (MVR). The MVR is the main parliamentary…

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Police Stories

A friend emailed these stories this morning. I don’t know how true they are, but her brother is a policeman and she does drive through…

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Ruling Sets Precedent Against Property Rights?

From this morning’s Christchurch Press A judge’s ruling has virtually cleared the way for peaceful property occupations as a form of protest, an activist says….

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Roy on Boosting Police Manpower

Good staff seem to be leaving the police faster than the government can recruit them. In her latest “Diary“, ACT MP and national security spokesman,…

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China To Train Mugabe’s Thugs

From South African Blog, Disaster Africa 2nd August 06. Zimbabwe’s ruling party is to set up a political school to train cadres along the lines…

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Union Idiocy On the Rise?

From Indymedia. By Simon Oosterman Five hundred distribution workers who supply the 165 Countdown, Foodtown and Woolworths supermarkets across New Zealand began a 48 hour…

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Socialist SuperSizer Sets up SOLIDARITY?

Socialist Worker, UNITE and SupersizeMyPay campaigner, Workers Charter Movement activist, Anticapitaliste blogger, frequent flyer and working class hero, Joe Carolan, seems to have yet another…

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