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Who Is Laila Harre?

With the National Distribution Union going head to head with Supermarket owner, Progressive Enterprises, in the most acrimonious strike for some years, I thought a…

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Chavez Challenges U.S.

From the latest Green Left Weekly The official August 12 start of Venezuela’s presidential election campaign has opened a new phase in Washington’s plans to…

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Are Wellington Lefties Slack?

From today’s Indymedia Smush wrote; A note to Wellington lefties Where are you? There is a full-on industrial dispute going on in Palmerston North, Auckland…

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Cactus Kate Pricks Some Bubbles

Cactus Kate calls it like she sees it, in a very good post on the Business Roundtable’s PR problems. The way Kate sees it, the…

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"National Question" Part 7 "No Maoris, No Tour"

After chipping away at New Zealand public opinion in the ’50s, the Communist Party had a major success with their racial agenda in 1959/60 the…

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T.O.S.A.S. 1, Thabo Mbeki

President of South Africa since 1999 and President of the ruling African National Congress since 1997, Thabo Mbeki is the “respectable” face of the new…

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TOSAS Are Coming

One or two people have expressed doubts on my claim that South Africa is effectively governed by an African National Congress/South African Communist Party coalition….

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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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