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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.

Solidarity With All Immigrants

Solidarity With All Immigrants

Just as you don’t have to be Palestinian to understand the brutality of Israeli policy in Gaza and the West Bank, or gay to feel the horror the cleansing in Chechnya, so you don’t have to be a parent to be outraged at what is happening on the US border. But it helps.

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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Bring Them Here

Bring Them Here

By Maria Hoyle — Socialist Aotearoa “In the West there was panic when the migrants multiplied on the highways. Men of property were terrified for their property. Men who had never been hungry saw the eyes of the hungry. Men who had never wanted anything very much saw the flare of want in the eyes of the migrants. And the mean of the towns and of the soft suburban country gathered to defend themselves; and they reassured themselves that they…

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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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