New Zealand
'Being treated like slaves': Migrant labour exploitation as an essential feature of late capitalism
Mike Treen — Working people must fight for a country where full employment and generous welfare systems for the unemployed are important protections for workers.
Elliot Crossan — For the Prime Minister to choose this moment to rule out both a wealth tax and a capital gains tax is a disgrace. Labour cannot claim to be the party of the working class while siding so clearly and openly with the wealthy few.
For a Green New Deal with people’s power
By Mike Tr
Why did New Zealand suffer the worst casualty rate in World War I?
As a participant in this lie of the “war to end all wars” New Zealand had achieved the unique result of suffering the highest military casualty rate of any nation involved in that war.
Confronting racism is key to realising working class unity and power
By Mike Treen
February 9, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Working people need to confront racism, sexism and anti-immigrant prejudice if we are to be successful in uniting our class sufficiently to take on the huge power of the one percent – the super-rich owners of most productive wealth in society.
February 9, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Working people need to confront racism, sexism and anti-immigrant prejudice if we are to be successful in uniting our class sufficiently to take on the huge power of the one percent – the super-rich owners of most productive wealth in society.
Mike Treen: SYRIZA victory in Greece a blow to austerity
Crowd at SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras' victory speech, January 25, 2015.