My new book, “The Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the United States Congress,” will be launched at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on August 20th. Be one of the first to own this important work. You can place an order today! Never before, has an author comprehensively exposed the extensive communist [...]
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ACT MP Heather Roy is the Party’s spokesman for security issues. Consequently she spent part of her Xmas break out with the Porirua police. Heather’s comments on juvenile offending and police power (or lack of)to deal with the problem. Juvenile offending has become a serious and escalating problem. I was surprised by the extent of [...]
Thank you Mr Norman, for confirming your membership of the Socialist Workers Party/Democratic Socialist Party. Perhaps you would be good enough to answer these questions. Can you please confirm if you held any official positions in the SWP/DSP, or any of its auxiliary organisations ie Resistance, Environmental Youth Alliance, CISLAC etc? Did you ever travel [...]
Leading Green Party co-ieadership contender, Russell Norman has admitted to beginning his political career as a member of a Marxist-Leninist political party. In response to my post on Norman’s links to the Australian Democratic Socialist Party, Norman, today, posted a statement on the Green Party’s FrogBlog. Here is an excerpt. I joined the Democratic Socialist [...]
Rodney Hide delivered his Forward Thinking for New Zealand speech at the Crowne Plaza Auckland, this morning. It’s just the kind of speech that ACT needs to set the tone for the next three years. ACT’s principle’s are laid out in practical terms and there’s good advice for Don Brash, on how to keep his [...]
ACT is set to elect a new board, president and vice-president. This is do or die stuff. ACT either has to get on track fast, or next election will be our last. What heartens me most and gives me confidence is the role ACT on Campus activists will be playing in the Party’s future. David [...]
The NZ Green Party, for many years, has been closely linked to the Australian “Democratic Socialist Party”, (now Democratic Socialist Perspective). Party leader, Jeanette Fitzsimons, International Affairs spokesman and MP, Keith Locke and 2005 campaign manager and probable next co-leader, Russell Norman, all have close ties to the DSP. So what? The DSP, despite its [...]
The Green Party will choose a male co-leader at its national conference in June. In a speech to Green Party members Whangarei on the 28th of January, Greens’ co-leader, Jeanette Fitzsimons “sent a strong signal to the party’s grassroot members that they should consider looking outside the current crop of MPs for a new male [...]
The Communist Party USA sees great hope in Latin America and the Caribbean. Below are excerpts from an article from their “People’s Weekly World” reprinted in the Communist Party of Australia’s “Guardian” of 20th April, 2005. This was written before the socialist victories in Chile and Bolivia and of course, the possible socialist victories looming [...]
I believe Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez sees himself as the heir to Fidel Castro. I believe he will try to use his country’s oil wealth, to achieve Castro’s dream, socialism from Mexico to Argentina. Here are a few items on Chavez, taken from the Australian Communist Party’s “Guardian” and the Communist Party of India (Marxist)’s [...]
Jordan Carter of Just Left has has blogged on why he believes Labour can win a fourth term (shudder). The article is well worth a read by anyone who thinks the Centre/Right can coast to victory in 2008. Jordan Carter makes the point that; “Never again is there going to be the kind of confluence [...]
David Farrar at KiwiBlog has an excellent post on Google’s decision to set up a Google China service which will censor out terms unacceptable to the Chinese Government. Google’s motto is “Don’t Be Evil” so its fair to say that many, including myself are shocked and appalled by their decision. Says David “To put it [...]
In a recent post I wrote about the fact that Cuba is training East Timorese doctors. “Cameron” in a replying comment said “I don’t see what’s so wrong with this. East Timor can get a cheap boost to its poorly resourced health system” What Cameron misses is the fact that Castro does nothing for nothing. [...]
Anybody who attended Waikato Uni in the’90s would probably remember the subject of my third “Where Are You Now, Campus Radical?”, profile, Dale Frew. Frew was a “mature” student. He came to Waikato in ’92 after 10 years as a union official, first with the Butchers and grocers Union and then as Waikato Secretary of [...]
My latest Socialist Academic Profile is of Mike Law of Waikato University. Law has a BA from Auckland, a Diploma of Education Studies from Waikato and a masters of Education from Rutgers. He is chairman of the Department of Sociology and Social Policy and is Seniorr Lecturer (Labour and Trade Union Studies). Law has a [...]
Rob Good at Puntiki wants your suggestions on a new slogan for ACT. “What would be a better slogan for ACT, should ACT drop a slogan all together, or do you like “The Liberal Party” slogan?
From comments on ACT’s future posted on Rob Good’s Puntiki Dan King “ACT has never employed marketing effectively. Our liberal brand means nothing to the average Jo Schmo who might vote for us, if he actually knew us. We need to ditch this intellectual ‘liberal rubbish’ and go for grass roots branding. ‘The party for [...]
The kinder part of a comment posted on Rob Good’s Puntiki by former ACT Deputy Board member and current National Party member, Aaron Bhatnagar. “I am not interested in handing out specific free advice for ACT, other than to note that ACT has always searched for one single silver bullet to fix all its problems [...]
From the NBR 20.2.06 by Owen McShane’ Everyone knows we all want higher incomes and lower prices. Nobody likes to see headlines saying “oil prices rose 20% last year”… or “Price increases of 20% demonstrate continuing strong economic growth”.Yet headlines that read “House prices continue their strong upward trend” are cause for celebration by the [...]
This morning’s Press Release from Christchurch based property investor, Hugh Pavletich, is right on the button. “Recent comments by two Bank economists ( NZ Herald – “Low incomes blamed for affordability crisis” – by Anne Gibson – 25 January 2005 ) in response to the 2006 Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey, are seriously wide of [...]
Those of you at Otago Uni, in the early ’90s or Vic in the mid ’90s, might remember the subject of my second “Where Are You Now, Campus Radical?”, profile, Marinus La Rooij. La Rooij joined Jim Anerton’s New Labour Party in 1989, while still only 17 or 18. He stood for Parliament for the [...]
When Cindy Kiro was appointed as Children’s Commissioner in 2003, the Commission put this bio on their webste. “Dr Kiro has a PhD in Social Policy and has worked mainly in the area of public health and advocacy for children and young people. She is married and mother to two young men and is of [...]
From this morning’s Christchurch Press. “The Children’s Commissioner wants the Government to test every New Zealand child four times during childhood as part of a radical plan to keep tabs on child welfare. As part of the proposal, commissioner Cindy Kiro said she wanted children assessed at milestones in their life as part of an [...]
In December 2005, East Timorese Prime Minister, Bim Amude Mari Alkatiri, paid a state visit to Cuba at the invitation of the President of the Council of State and Ministers of Cuba, Fidel Castro. conforming to a familiar pattern, Castro announced that Cuba is prepared to send up to 300 doctors to East Timor, in [...]
On December 17, Guillermo Teillier, leader of the Chilean Communist Party, reminded Chile’s new Socialist president, Michelle Bachelet, that without the support of the left she would not have won. Said Teillier,“We now hope that Bachelet will fulfill the promises that she has made before the people and trade unionists. We are now going to [...]
From Prensa Latina “Bolivian President Evo Morales and Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage held talks at the governmental headquarters in La Paz on Monday, in an environment of friendship that marks historic relations between both nations. Lage, who heads the delegation that attended Morales´ swearing-in on Sunday, is accompanied by Foreign Investment and Economic Collaboration [...]
From Scoop Hat Tip Lindsay Mitchell “A diverse panel of community representatives is calling on all NZers to make “poverty wages history” in 2006 at a press conference this Wednesday January 25, 12 noon at the Mercure Hotel, 8 Customs St. The panel includes grassroots organisations, including health, student, ethnic and poverty groups, NGOs, unions [...]
Rob Good has come up with a great idea. He asks“If you were elected as the President of the ACT party, and if you had the power and ability to make some big changes within ACT what would that be and how would you implement it?” Link to Rob at Puntiki and give him your [...]
There’s been some scrapping over five blogs recently between some National supporters and some ACTivists. While there has been some personal stuff, I think the results have been positive. It’s got people thinking more about National/ACT relations and also what we need to do to improve our respective parties. Spiit of ’76 has come up [...]
Organisers of last weekend’s protest at Waihopai surveillance station are disappointed at the turnout and lack of local support. About a 100 protesters marched through Blenheim chanting “Waihopai spies, people die”, yet this inspired hardly a local to turn up in support. For all the publicity, it is actually a little bit woeful, how many [...]
Before even being inaugurated, Bolivia’s president-elect, Evo Morales of the Movemement Towards Socialism, paid a flying visit, just before new year, to Fidel Castro in Cuba. During the visit, Castro and Morales announced a 30-month plan to eliminate illiteracy in Bolivia, provide free eye operations to up to 50,000 Bolivians and provide 5,000 medical scholarships [...]
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