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…
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…
"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…
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…
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…
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….
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Cuban Academic Says True Revolution Ongoing
Hamilton’s Wintec held its Spark 06-International Festival of Media, Arts and Design this week. There were some pretty political speakers there, like Bruce Connew, Dave…
Christchurch Press Gives Madeleine Flannagan a Cheque in Confidential Settlement
On 21.9.05 The Christchurch Press issued this statement. Colin Espiner’s campaign trail blog from September 6 referred to a demonstration during Prime Minister Helen Clark’s…
Revenge of the Square Dancers
From the latest
How Blatant Do They Have To Be?
A friend from Israel sent me this recent photo of a Hezbollah funeral march in Lebanon. Note the Lebanese Communist Party flags. Is there a…
Belgian Marxists March for Hezbollah and Hamas
From the Brussels Journal 7th August Some 8,000 people demonstrated in Brussels on Sunday against the war in Lebanon. There were slogans against the U.S….
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