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 | November Spark | 757 Tage her | |
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 The Spark November 2007http://www.workersparty.org.nz Terror tactics from Labour and police As The Spark goes to press the police are applying to lay charges under terrorism laws against a range of political activists. Labour - wanting to appear at arms-length - is delegating responsibility from the attorney-general, Michael Cullen, to the solicitor-general. Hands off Iran, freedom for the Kurds On October 25, the Bush regime implemented new sanctions on Iran. The measures, the harshest imposed on Iran since 1979, affect 20 major Iranian companies and involve seizing assets held in the US and banning Americans from doing business with the companies, including three Iranian state-owned banks. Pacific Forum 2007: imperialism, hypocrisy and lies On 16 and 17 October 2007, the leaders of 21 Pacific nations met in Tonga for the thirty-eighth annual Pacific Forum. Proceedings were dominated by the question of Fiji and its military regime, with Prime Minister Helen Clark launching a series of attacks on Commodore Bainimarama and his government, calling for the restoration of parliamentary democracy and for "free and open elections" to be held "by the end of 2009". Workers Party mayoral campaign reviewed The decision of the Auckland branch to only stand in Waitakere City was opposed by some people within the Workers Party who argued that the Auckland City mayoral race would have got more media publicity. However the decision of the branch to concentrate on Waitakere bore considerable results. Rebecca Broad's 2101 vote count was by far the most impressive number of votes a Workers' Party candidate has received in an election. The campaign has also had other positive results, such as Rebecca being offered a regular column in the local paper. Generally this campaign helped put forward socialist politics and drew a number of people, including organised workers, closer to the Workers' Party. Book review: No Left Turn by Chris Trotter A class-centred historical analysis is a rare thing in New Zealand today. The clash of classes that dominated much of this young nation’s 20th-century political landscape seems to have been discarded by most contemporary political commentators and academics to the dustbin of history. Chris Trotter is therefore to be commended for trying to do justice to the history of the working class movement in this country with his tome, No Left Turn. But he is also to be challenged for his defence of the new “distorters of history”. Events that shook the world “Besides the organised and peaceful demonstrations there were many of a different kind — tumultuous, ardent, violent, anarchical, drawing in hundreds of thousands, even millions of participants — the succession of these demonstrations marking the advance of the revolution. “Every street corner was a public tribune. In railway trains, street cars, always the spurting up of impromptu debate, everywhere ... What a marvellous sight to see the Putilov factory pour out its 40,000 to listen to Social Democrats, Socialist Revolutionaries, Anarchists, anybody, whatever they had to say, as long as they could talk.” This is how US socialist John Reed, the author of the famous eyewitness account Ten Days that Shook the World, described the excitement of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Student elections: Workers Party beats Labour and Act Workers Party member Joel Cosgrove has been elected president of the Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association (VUWSA) for 2008. Joel will be the second Workers Party member in this role, Nick Kelly being the first in 2006. | |||
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| Mobile Library destroyed by vandals | 779 Tage her | |
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| Press Release For Immediate release: 7.10.2007 The Wellington Mobile Library bus has been destroyed by vandals. These vandals were not graffiti artists, homeless people or P addicts. This act was committed by the worst vandals in town – the Wellington city council in the last triennium. “The mobile library was a way of bringing the library service to people in Wellington suburbs who found it hard to travel to the library” says Workers Party Wellington mayoral candidate Nick Kelly. “As always the council claimed there was no money for this service, yet council members continue to find the cash to take themselves on junkets or cut rates for their business friends in the city”. The Workers’ Party calls on people who want the Mobile Library brought back not only to give their 1st Preference to Nick Kelly, but to join the Workers’ Party. “By building a party and a movement of the Working class majority we can start to fight back against the council cutting services such as the Mobile Library”. ENDS Song Nick read out at Wednesday’s candidate forum in Karori: There’s something about the council And there’s something about the mayor And there’s something about this city of ours That’s damned unfair City Council you’re no friend of mine Nor are you Prendergast Putting the business sector first With us residents coming in Last (Lyrics written by Jim Delahunty; Candidate for the Capital Coast District Health Board) | |||
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| Access Radio Wellington - Nick Kelly's WP Mayoral talk: | 794 Tage her | |
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| Press Release: Time to get real about Green Politics | 805 Tage her | |
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| “This years Wellington council election forums are turning into a bad copy of ‘Live Earth’ without the music” Says Nick Kelly, Wellington Workers’ Party Mayoral candidate. “Unlike in previous elections suddenly every candidate talks about Green politics and how they have been environmentalists all their lives – which most candidates weren’t saying 3 years ago”. Many mayoral candidates have been quick to give examples of them helping to upgrade a council park, or taking their kids to the south coast of Wellington to clean up the beach. Even conservative Mayor Prendergast has talked of making Wellington the ‘first green capital’, explaining that this would be economically viable. “What these candidates are talking about is Green capitalism” says Nick. “This new found environmentalism is often coupled with support for increased user-pay charges such as water metering or similar attacks on people’s living standards.” The Workers Party see the real environmental problem being the fault of capitalism where capitalists produce commodities at a level which is most profitable, rather than at a level that equates with humans real need of that commodity or with the least negative impact on the environment. “Working people who struggle to live on low wages are told to consume less, whilst business is allowed to carry on destroying the environment and exploiting workers for profit” say Nick. The Workers Party is also critical the capitalist Green Party who is standing candidates in a number of council wards in Wellington this year. “Green Party candidates are coming out opposing the construction Transmission Gully to replace the dangerous and inadequate stretch of State Highway one from Wellington to the Kapiti Coast” says Nick. “All this party offers the people of Wellington instead is an empty slogan about ‘Fresh thinking’”. “What’s needed is a new political movement that fights to end capitalist destruction of the environment, not Green slogans from capitalist politicians” says Nick. Ends Contact Nick Kelly E-mail: socialist42@hotmail.com | |||
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| 1st preference - Nick Kelly Workers' Party Wellington Mayoral candidate | 807 Tage her | |
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| Nick Kelly is standing as the Workers' Party candidate in the Wellingon City Mayoral elections. His platform included: * Supporting Working class control of all council assests and operations. * Quality housing for all, opposing the current high rents and privatisation of council housing * Supporting the Socialist project in Venezuela by calling for a Sister City relationship with the Venezuelan capital Caracas and encouraging worker exchanges between the two cities * If elected Mayor only accepting the average workers wage, and using the left over money towards useful social projects So give your 1st preference vote to Nick Kelly, and join the Workers' Party. | |||
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