AGAINST THE CURRENT

PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT 2020 : WHAT COMES AFTER CAPITALISM?

THE HORIZON of post-capitalism is coming into clearer focus — but it remains to be seen if the post-cap italist economy will be authoritari...

Waiting for the 'bounce back' at the food bank. The economy might be in a deep hole but, don't worry, its all about the 'bo...

The inaugural summit of the Progressive International happens online from September 18-20. THE INAUGURAL summit of the Progr...

James Shaw : The corporate sector thinks he's a pleasure to work with. Climate Change Minister James Shaw thinks that targeting ca...

J ournalist Andrea Vance says she won't be voting in November because ' choosing between the lesser of two evils isn’t really mu...

YESTERDAY APPROXIMATELY one thousand Aucklanders took to the streets to protest against the current level 2 restrictions and the w...

Carmel Sepuloni : Tinkering with welfare and the victims are beneficiaries. With little fanfare, Labour announces its welfare policy -...

LAST WEEK the progressive community around the world was left shocked and saddened by the news that David Graeber had died at the age ...

Grant Robertson : Further entrenching New Zealand's deepening inequality Jacinda Ardern and Grant Robertson are proving to be loya...

‘PALESTINE’S FREEDOM SONG’ was recorded, composed and filmed in the besieged Gaza Strip in occupied Pa lestin e. The s ingers are...

THIS WEEK on A World To Win , UK economist and commentator Grace Blakeley is joined by Walden Bello, academic, author and human rights cam...

'In the 2014 general election, nearly 730,000 of those enrolled to vote did not cast a ballot. For the first time in my life I was o...

Green MP Chloe Swarbrick has been tweeting about how 'change-let alone equality-is really hard to achieve with power stacked against...

Toby Manhire enjoying a laugh with Jacinda Ardern. Mildly liberal Toby Manhire of The Spinoff h as got all excited that the centrist ...

Max Rashbrooke :The Ardern-led government has entrenched the status quo. The unemployment figures are rapidly moving upwards at a...

Green Party co-leader James Shaw has been the target of flak because he backed the public funding of a private school, in breach of Gree...

ONE WEEK after the Democratic and Republican national conventions, Bernie 2020 National Co-Chair Sen. Nina Turner and Bernie 2020...

While Bernard Hickey of Newsroom writes that Covid-19 has seen the Labour-led Government deliver 'the biggest shot of cash and mon...

While COVID-19 has exposed the injustices and inequalities of our economic system, the danger remains of a return to the status quo, but...