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LABOUR DISINTEGRATES

National's victory marked a disastrous defeat for Labour. We have to look beyond electoral politics for real political and economic chan...

The state-owned power companies that Labour are championing are the same power companies that keep putting their prices up. So a Labour Gov...

Labour's demise is not just Phil Goff's fault. In its first year, Phil Goff explained away the National Government's popularity...

The Labour Party is different from the National Party in the same way that Marmite is different from Vegemite. I see that everyone in the me...

The CTU bureaucrats are going to support Labour's threat to raise the retirement age to 67. What's 'a point of difference' b...

If an opinion poll is to be believed then most of the country and over half of Labour's own supporters have given up on Phil Goff-and ...

I don't care who is on the Labour Party list. I just don't care. The overall consensus from the media commentators, having examined...

You may have noticed that this blog has been a 'Darren Hughes Free Zone'. There's a reason for that. The whole affair has bored ...

The rumours about the formation of a new left party have been circulating in the mainstream media for weeks now. Generally the stories hav...

Phil Goff's Labour Party are offering no alternative to the National-led Government's austerity policies. Of course we've known ...

The candidacy of Kris Fa'afoi is a big fat clue to the future direction of the Labour Party under Phil Goff. Despite all the hype abou...

For over thirty years Labour leader Phil Goff has been a loyal and committed supporter of neoliberalism and the free market. And he hasn...

Friday October 1, of course, marks the day when there will be a massive transfer of wealth from the New Zealand working class to the wealth...

Some of you might have seen Leigh Hart's Mysterious Planet which TV1 have slotted away in an unattractive 9.30pm slot on a Friday night...

While I have no love for the Labour Party, it would be nice to think - if just for the sake of meaningful political discussion generally - t...

In Britain last month a socialist electoral alliance was launched to fight this year's general election. It's called the Trade Union...

The present 'vigorous discussion' occurring within the Labour Party is not so much about two principled political currents disagreei...

With unemployment continuing to rise and more heavy downward pressure being applied on wage levels, you would think Labour would be actual...

Whatever way you look at them, the figures look bad. Even that eternal optimist, TV1's business reporter Corin Dann, couldn't find...