Last weekend’s Indymedia conference was held in the new Unite offices, on the top floor of the Queen St. ASB Building. The view from the top is quite impressive: you can see all the worker minions — potential Unte members — going about their daily business far down on the street below. There are plans [...]
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New Pamphlet: Industrial Unionism in Aotearoa
1st February 2007 – 7:37 pm
Just finished working on a pamphlet as part of Rebel Press and got them printed today. Yay!
Industrial Unionism (available for download) is a pamphlet with two local articles on the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) in New Zealand. The History of the the I.W.W. in New Zealand, written by Peter Steiner, details [...]
Unite and its Class Collaboration
19th January 2007 – 2:47 pm
If it was any other union I probably wouldn’t bother with this. The rest are so obviously class collaborationist and generally seem to follow the CTU’s line around productivity and skills-based economy. But the Unite Union (my union), for some reason, manages to shake off this reputation amongst radical circles despite it also being quite [...]
The Bolivarian Farce and the Anarchist Opposition
11th January 2007 – 5:31 pm
It seems many Socialists are getting very wet at the recent news of Venezuela being renamed and the apparent shift left by Chavez. Indeed, Socialist Worker in their last issue of Unity devoted their entire issue to the “Bolivarian Revolution”, waxing lyrical over the messianic figure of Chavez.
Since Chavez was re-elected once again for another [...]
Bad Tactics, Fuckarse Cops
I think I could be the most youngest cynical old man, but here’s another rant against a protest action.
This time it’s the Howard demo that happened tonight in Wellington, which saw three of my friends get arrested, and quite a few others hurt. I didn’t think the demo was a very good idea: I said [...]