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By Fred Weston
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Tuesday, 04 December 2007 |
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The Australian Labor Party won a landslide
victory in the recent elections. At the centre of the election campaign was
Howard’s hated anti-trade union legislation. The workers of Australia voted
massively against this. But as the new Labor leader, Rudd, is no different from
Blair, what are the tasks facing genuine socialists in Australia?
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By Graham Day in New Zealand
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Wednesday, 17 October 2007 |
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Earlier this month there was a very militant 48-hour strike of the New Zealand dockworkers over pay and conditions. As usual, the bosses, while getting fat salaries themselves, claim the dockworkers are already well paid!
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By Simon Williams - www.marxist.org.au
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Tuesday, 16 October 2007 |
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Piero Barrachi was
a pioneering Australian Communist, who threw himself into the struggle for a
revolutionary party in Australia after the Russian revolution. Initially he did
not understand the Stalinist degeneration but eventually he saw through it and
joined the Trotskyists. Simon Williams reviews a book about his life.
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By Simon Williams in Australia
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Monday, 13 August 2007 |
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Australian Capital Reserve recently went bust
leaving thousands of small investors at risk of impoverishment, among them
pensioners who were convinced to sink their life savings into their various
speculative schemes. It has already been made clear that the small investors
will be the last to receive any compensation, an example of what we may see
elsewhere.
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By Graham Day in New Zealand
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Monday, 06 August 2007 |
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Locked out SFWU
workers say 'We Beat the boss'!
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By Simon Williams
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
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The forthcoming federal election in Australia is shaping up to be an
almighty contest between the classes in spite of the moderate stance of the
Labour leaders. The Australian workers are fed up with anti-trade union
legislation and are turning to Labour on the electoral front as a way of
combating these.
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By Graham Day in New Zealand
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 |
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An Auckland woman, Folole Muliaga, recently died in New Zealand
because she could no longer run her oxygen machine which kept her alive, the
reason being the electricity company Mighty River Power cut off her supply
because of a NZ$168.40 arrears. A clear example that services run for profit
kill!
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By Graham Day in New Zealand
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Wednesday, 30 May 2007 |
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On the
surface New Zealand
is “booming” but it is doing so at the expense of the working class. It is not
surprising that under such conditions trade union membership has significantly
increased and strikes over collective agreements and pay have broken out.
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By Martyn Rogers in Sydney
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Thursday, 30 November 2006 |
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One year since the massive
mobilisations against the introduction of draconian anti-trade union laws, the
workers of Australia today showed their determination to keep the struggle
alive. Over 250,000 turned out across Australia in rallies to protest.
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By Graham Day in New Zealand
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Wednesday, 27 September 2006 |
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After 28 days of being locked out workers belonging
to the National Distribution Union (NDU) and the Engineering, Printing &
Manufacturing Union (EMPU) at the 3 Progressive Enterprises supermarkets depots
have won pay parity across all depots within the next 18 months in one of the bitterest dispute seen in New Zealand in
a generation.
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By Stuart Gorman in Australia
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Tuesday, 12 September 2006 |
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The recent Queensland
election was called against a backdrop of crisis in the public health system
and problems with water and electricity supply. The choice was between between
a right-wing Labor party and the avowedly anti-worker policies of the
Coalition.
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By Graham Day in New Zealand
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Friday, 01 September 2006 |
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Wages are abysmally low for supermarket workers in New Zealand.
Recently the National Distribution
Union organised a 48-hour stoppage. The bosses reacted with a lock-out. This
has only served to strengthen the resolve of the striking workers. Send
messages of solidarity and protest.
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By Simon Blake in Western Australia
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Monday, 28 August 2006 |
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Construction workers in Western Australia are in the front line of a
vicious attack under the Coalition government's anti-union laws. This Tuesday,
one hundred and seven workers will be in court where they face ruinous fines of
up to AU$28,600. The fines are for a strike which was called to protect safety
at work and to defend a sacked union representative.
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By Hal Roberts, NTEU Murdoch Branch, Perth (Personal Capacity)
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Friday, 18 November 2005 |
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On Tuesday over 500,000 Australian workers came out on demonstrations across the country to protest against the latest draconian anti-trade union laws, with 200,000 at the Melbourne rally. The mood on the rallies was very militant. The Australian working class is returning to its best traditions of struggle, and this is only the beginning. |
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By Mike Newman
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Friday, 21 March 2003 |
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There was a massive demonstration on
the day the war started. The write-up in the Sydney Morning Herald made things
clear... |
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By Simon O'Rorke, Wellington, New Zealand
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Tuesday, 30 October 2001 |
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Simon O'Rorke explains the mood towards the war in Afghanistan
among workers in New Zealand and also explains a little of what is happening in the political an
d economic scene in the country. There have been demonstrations against the war, in fairly modest
numbers so far, but starting before the first bombs were dropped on Afghanistan. |
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By Simon O'Rorke from Wellington
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Sunday, 11 February 2001 |
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Simon O'Rorke from Wellington looks at the real record of the Labour Alliance Government in New Zealand
which has been presented by some as a 'left' government as opposed to socialdemocratic
governments in Europe. |
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Friday, 10 November 2000 |
Tomorrow, November 11, 2000, marks the 25th anniversary of the dramatic dismissal of the
Whitlam Labor government in Australia. For the generation entering the ranks of the Labour
movement today, 25 years on, the experience of the Whitlam Labor government
holds many valuable lessons besides the clear demonstration of how the ruling
establishment is prepared to act in defence of its interests against a properly elected
Labor government.
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By Simon ORorke from Wellington
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Tuesday, 14 December 1999 |
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We received the following report on the recent elections in New Zealand. We are
reproducing it here because of the interesting information and analysis of these
developments which, as far as we know, have not been covered seriously from a Marxist
point of view elsewhere. The final count of the New Zealand election results, incorporating the Special votes,
did not come out till 9th December, just after the article was posted on the web, so
there is also an update attached as a postscript. |
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