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Month: August 2017

Capitalism as Pratfall

Capitalism as Pratfall

By Christine Rose — Socialist Aotearoa supporter Capitalism, that great and efficient distributor of goods and services. It has brought us, with its compatriots, colonization and Christianity, oppression and extinction of indigenous cultures, the creation and exploitation of the working class, systematic domination over nature and non-human animals, and other travesties. It’s given us over-consumption and species collapse, destruction of ecosystems and then biospheric conditions. It’s given us a plastic filled planet, more nurdles than fish. Fukushima. It’s given us…

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The Mettle of Metiria

The Mettle of Metiria

By Joe Carolan — co-founder of Socialist Aotearoa Metiria stood with the Indian Students fighting exploitation and deportation in the sanctuary of the Unitarian Church. Metiria stood in solidarity with Unite Union workers who took strike action to defeat zero hours contracts. She has been subjected to a vicious avalanche of manufactured outrage from media pundits, vilified by the rabid right wing and betrayed by opportunists within the left. Her crime: to fight for the unemployed, beneficiaries and the poor….

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Beyond Jacindamania: Interview with Joe Carolan

Beyond Jacindamania: Interview with Joe Carolan

In light of Jacinda Ardern’s sudden, last minute ascent to the Labour leadership, Maria Hoyle interviews Unite Union organiser and 2017 Mt. Albert byelection candidate Joe Carolan about the prospects of the leadership change. Maria: With Jacinda Ardern taking over, there is a feeling of hope and expectation, that it will invigorate the campaign, that young people will go to the ballot box for a change… what’s your view on what Jacinda might offer? Joe: We’re in the early throes…

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