Guest with a life of anti-fascist and anti-war activism in their rear-view mirror, alarmingly finds at fifty that they are staring at the green shoots of fascism in their headlights.This is not where any progressive expected to be. But for the left, there is also no discounting fascist action by offering up the reasoning of the aggressor.
Colin James and Councillor Tamatha Paul will discuss Colin’s paper “Beyond Jacinda” on Monday 7 December at 5:30pm at Baptist Church, 46-48 Boulcott Street Wellington. It will also be shown on Zoom and available on YouTube. Registration links below. All Welcome.
The election year donation returns have been released and show a surge of donations for Labour but National still well ahead.
Jim Anderton’s funeral is at 2pm today, and will be livestreamed from youtube.
Jim Anderton has passed away. A politician of passion and principle.
For the sake of reference – Nye Bevan was a Labour mp and the architect of the British NHS. Michael Sheen’s speech was a defense of that institution, but the underpinning message is, well…
To the Herald the Fourth Estate must be a greenfield development on the outer margins of Auckland: a Dickensian space, hiding the poor from the upper middle-classes. The Herald lacks critical balance & equal weighting for diverse views: it scaremongers about the Akl Unitary Plan & undermines public transport.
Odds are good Jim Anderton is standing for mayor of Christchurch. By-election will be a chance to rev up the Labour machine again. Safe seat: Labour+Progressive had over 20,000 candidate votes. Also gives Progressives and Labour time to combine their assets, activists, and systems well before the general election. But it looks like Labour isn’t the only one seeing an opportunity:
How dumb was John Carter to use his speech at the Grey Power National Conference to have a cry because Grey Power’s participating in an inquiry into aged care by Labour, the Greens, and the Progressives? You don’t try to bully Grey Power with its 100,000 members. The grey voters will be leaving National in droves.
Have you still not decided who you’ll vote for? The final poll shows the race between a National/ACT/United Future or a Labour/Green/Progressive/Maori government […]
Last election, 7,000 people gave their votes to very small left-wing parties that never had any chance of winning a seat in Parliament. […]
If you vote National, United Future, or ACT, you will be voting for the ACC system to be privatised. Consequences of this include: […]
So, we can all make up dumb pictures and say ‘beware of many-headed monsters’. Let’s, instead, ask if National’s attack makes sense. First, […]
Vote smart is a series of posts on tactical voting for people who support certain parties or live in certain electorates to help […]
The unions want the minimum wage lifted to $15 an hour, two thirds of the average hourly rate, restoring the historic ratio. The […]
Some people don’t seem to understand that being of the Left does not mean being soley allied to Labour or the Greens or […]
It is time for the Left to take back the language of freedom. At its heart freedom, power for the ordinary person, is what […]
Today we’re posting the first of our “Interview the leaders” segments – where you get to ask the leaders the questions you want […]
Well, we’ve made our decision on the two questions you wanted asked of Jim Anderton and one of the decisions we made was […]
We’re going to interview the leader of each party but we’d like to give you the chance to ask the questions. Starting next […]
