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Ghosts of Christmas Present: Macron’s Ongoing Yellow Vest Nightmare

Ghosts of Christmas Present: Macron’s Ongoing Yellow Vest Nightmare

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December 15th was Act Five for the popular Yellow Vest revolt against poverty in France, but it was not the finale. The movement remains vibrant and determined, especially in the big Southern towns such as Toulouse and Bordeaux, and its effects are considerable, with pre-Christmas commerce heavily hit, privatized motorway companies losing tens of millions of euros, and images of burning cars and smashed bank windows on the Champs Elysées tarnishing President Emmanuel Macron’s image as 21st Century European capitalism’s blue-eyed boy.

Stop the False Compromise

Stop the False Compromise

There is a pervasive myth on the left that while we may want to see significant, systemic change to society, we have to constantly tone down the demands we make and the reforms we argue for, because doing so will win support from business and the media and neutralise the arguments that National and their outriders try to make. This argument has been disproven time and time again

1968: The Year Paris Erupted

1968: The Year Paris Erupted

By Doug Robertson — Socialist Aotearoa It’s 50 years since Paris witnessed the incredible power of workers and students united, as millions took to the streets to challenge the reactionary French state, and shook the very class system to its core.  We look at how events unfolded, and why the demands and action at their heart remain relevant today. On the 22nd of March 1968, 150 students, far left groups, poets and musicians occupied the administration building of Nanterre University…

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Can We Save Capitalism? Or Should We Save the World?

Can We Save Capitalism? Or Should We Save the World?

By Lavinia — Socialist Aotearoa Capitalism has a problem. This is rather universally believed, with the main dispute being what that problem is. For many capitalists, the problem is an image problem or perhaps a more substantial problem to do with endless restructuring & staff reductions, outsourcing, commoditisation, price competition driving down wages, declining innovation and slow profit growth. Others think capitalism is under siege – with social problems de-legitimising business i.e. businesses have lost their ‘social contract to operate’…

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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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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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Five Fingers for a Fist: Founding Principles of Socialist Aotearoa

Five Fingers for a Fist: Founding Principles of Socialist Aotearoa

1. One Solution, Revolution! Socialist Aotearoa is a revolutionary, socialist, anti capitalist group. We fight for socialism from below, system change not climate change, and Rosa Luxemburg’s battle cry that “Revolutionaries are those who fight the hardest for reforms in the here and now!”. 2. Workers of the World, Unite. Socialist Aotearoa is an international socialist group. We oppose all imperialist wars and occupations, and support all genuine national liberation struggles for independence. We demand the immediate withdrawal of New…

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