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Red Lops Dreadlocks

That was then This is now. Victoria University student prezzy and Workers Party radical, Nick Kelly has shorn his trademark dreads. Even worse he’s selling…

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Rodney Reborn?

From Rodney’s Blog Texts and emails have been flooding in concerned about me going soft: MPs wonder what’s happened to the old rough-and-tumble Rodney If…

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Curly Capitalist Question 14 Capitalism and War

Anonymous has a good question Trevor,you would accept that competition between firms and corporations is a fact of free market national capitalism. Many of these…

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Hard Left Beats Left for Union Post

According to IndymediaScenes of jubilation and tears of joy greeted the stunning victory by Jill Ovens in yesterday’s election for the new Northern Region Secretary…

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Kahui Twin’s Death is Capitalism’s Fault

Here’s Communist Workers Group member, Justin Taua on the death of the Kahui twins, quoted on his comrade Scott Hamilton’s blog, Reading the Maps. Taua…

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Hone Harawira on the Jews and the White Man

Maori Party MP Hone Harawira has a tactful way with words. According to Liberty Scott, Harawira, speaking in Maori, had this to say about the…

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The Middle East; ACT’s View vs Socialist Stance

I have some pretty mixed feelings on the Israel/Lebanon/Palestine tangle. I am certainly not blind to the plight of innocent Lebanese and Palestinians and do…

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Chavez; Just Another Dirty Dictator

Venezuela’s Marxist president, Hugo Chavez is the darling of the the young left. These are the people who laugh at the old pro Soviet left…

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P.R.A.T.T. Number 3, Simon Wilson

The subject of my third “Pinkos and Reds Against The Tour” profile is Simon Wilson. If you knew Simon Wilson 25 years ago, you wouldn’t…

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Lunatic Wants to Run the Asylum

From the latest Green Left Weekly Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez condemned Israel’s bombing of Lebanon, commenting that “They are bombing entire cities, it is…

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The Despair of a Moderate

Not all protestors are mindless Marxists. Here is Sophia from Red Confectionery giving her account of the Anti Israel march in Auckland on Saturday. Today…

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The Don’s Not For Turning

From Don Brash’s speech to the National Party conference in the weekend. Hat Tip David Farrar. There are always those who believe the only way…

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Minto; The Honesty and the Idiocy

Here’s some honesty and some idiocy from veteran Anti Apartheid activist, John Minto’s column in this morning’s Christchurch Press. First the honesty However in the…

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Simple Simon Met A P’liceman, Pulling Down a Flag

Guess who pulled down the US Consulate’s flag during an anti Israeli demo in Auckland yesterday? Fittingly for a halfwit, Simon (Bobo) Oosterman only pulled…

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P.R.A.T.T. Number 2, Dave MacPherson

Another Pious Radical (or Pinkos and Reds) Against The Tour was Hamilton City Councillor and anti gambling activist Dave MacPherson. Though Timaru born, MacPherson became…

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