THE CTU WON'T DEFEND BENEFICIARIES
According to the media reports, which read suspiciously like they have come via the Beehive, the Welfare Working Group is proposing that ...
BOB GOES BONKERS!
It's been a while since I reported on the adventures of Christchurch Mayor Sideshow Bob. I think I've been suffering Bob burnout. I...
BLAMING THE POOR FOR BEING POOR
‘…anyone on a benefit actually has a lifestyle choice. If one budgets properly, one can pay one’s bills. And that is true because the bulk o...
EGYPT'S REVOLUTION IS OUR REVOLUTION TOO
In Egypt the people have toppled the US-backed Mubarak regime. Throughout the Middle East the people are rising up against authoritarian r...
THE RINGING OF REVOLUTION
'A comrade in Chicago even heard someone in the unemployment line say, "We need some of that Egypt shit over here." The Egypti...
JUST THE BEGINNING
The mainstream media have been eager to portray the Egyptian revolution as 'a job done' but the reality on the streets of Cairo a...
NO 'RECOVERY' AND NO JOBS
Last week John Key vowed to create more jobs this year. This from a Prime Minister whose Government is intending to take the axe again to t...
VICTORY TO THE REVOLUTION!
I spent a lot of last night watching the final demise of Hosni Mubarak, flicking between BBC World and Al Jazeera. It was dramatic and ins...
MCCULLY TOES THE OBAMA LINE ON EGYPT
In Parliament today the Minister of Foreign Affairs refused to call for the immediate resignation of the Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. I...
'BLOATED AND INEFFICIENT'
Did anyone notice Gerry Brownlee looking uncomfortable in Parliament yesterday when John Key started talking abut things that are 'bloa...
JULIE KEEPS HER FABULOUS BURGER KING JOB!
27 year old Julie Tyler was suspended by her boss, Burger King, for speaking out about its low wages and poor working conditions. BK is the...
MONEY'S TOO TIGHT TO MENTION
I've lost count of the number of news reports I've read about the increasing demand being experienced by the country's food ban...
NO JOBS, GRIM FUTURE
Last week's alarming unemployment figures, you might of reasonably thought, should of triggered the alarm bells in the Beehive offices ...
NZ POLITICIANS OPPOSE EGYPT'S REVOLUTION
The Egyptian revolution is in progress. The Egyptian people have taken their destiny into their own hands and are writing history as we spe...
PARTY RUMOURS
The rumours about the formation of a new left party have been circulating in the mainstream media for weeks now. Generally the stories hav...
SCRAMBLED BEANS
Watching the great events unfolding in Egypt, I was reminded of a story that Leon Trotsky recounts in his autobiography My Life . It's ...
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