tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-249420912026-07-23T22:58:27.569-07:00COMMUNIST WORKER Archive of CWG Aotearoa/NZDave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.comBlogger223125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-50255228538241193442012-12-29T04:15:00.001-08:002013-03-03T19:50:10.197-08:00Blogging OutCommunist Worker is also at wordpress
On both this blog and wordpress blog CWG (NZ) online archive runs from 1978 to 2006
From beginning of 2006 all posts are found on redrave.blogspot Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-91160131262038229412012-05-27T23:07:00.000-07:002013-03-03T19:51:23.504-08:00Mexico: Long live the Oaxaca Commune!
Barricade of Radio Free Universidad, Oaxaca, November 2 2006
On the 2 of October, 38 years since the massacre of Tlatelolco in 1968,(1) the eyes of the proletarian vanguard of the Americas and the world are fixed on the workers and people of that Mexican city that have created their own Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) against the power of the bourgeois ruling class.
Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-37630644519995147102012-05-27T22:52:00.002-07:002013-03-03T19:52:19.051-08:00POR and LOR: The Role of the fake Trotskyists at Huanuni
Battle between state and privatised miners at Huanuni October 2006
The renegades –fake Trotskyists – (former Trotskyists who claim to still be Trotskyists) are a left leg of the treacherous class-collaborationist policy of the COB (Bolivian Workers Center) leaders that sells-out the workers struggle. Facing the Huanuni events, Lora’s POR (Revolutionary Workers' Party) again played the Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-66927877242619157352012-05-27T22:35:00.001-07:002013-03-03T19:52:48.729-08:00Bolivia: Long live the Huanuni miners!
State miners defend themselves from self-employed miners at Huanuni, October 2006
After two days of hard fighting to resist the attack of the counterrevolutionary forces of the small cooperativista bosses supported and armed by Walter Villarroel – then mining Minister in Morales` government and a cooperativista boss himself –the heroic Huanuni miners stopped their attackers taking of the Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-12596630012481231682012-05-27T22:21:00.000-07:002013-03-03T19:53:39.686-08:00LABOUR PARTY From ‘working class’ to ‘middle class’ Party?
The Socialist Workers Organisation now says the Labour Party has no roots in working class and that the ‘Workers’ Charter’ is the start of a new workers party. This ignores the many workers in unions who still have direct or indirect links to the Labour Party. It turns its back on these workers. It tells them not to vote for ‘middle class’ people. We say instead, "these people in the Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-80204420418955343072012-05-27T22:08:00.000-07:002013-03-03T19:55:59.598-08:00Occupy! Get union Green bans on the block! Take back stolen Maori Land!
Tuhoe blockade Rayonier forestry on disputed Maori Land
After a year of activity kicked off by the protest that met the Waitaingi Tribunal last year (1), a group of Tuhoe ‘confederation’ members set up two roadblocks on Thursday afternoon near Waimana. The protest is directed against the sale of 94,300 hectares of timberland last year. Rayonier, a Florida-based multi-national company Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-65006824046091663202012-05-27T21:57:00.000-07:002013-03-03T19:56:21.631-08:00Take Back Air New Zealand, no compensation, and under Workers’ Control!
The fourth Labour government of 1984-1990, privatised Telecom, NZ Rail and many other state assets. It also set up State Owned Enterprises, a health system based on contracts, boards of trustees running schools, competitive power companies, and put law in place for councils to privatize their services also, through Local Authority Trading Enterprises. All of these changes were based on Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-41697930459487450442012-05-27T21:44:00.000-07:002013-03-03T19:56:56.031-08:00Nationalise Feltex under Workers Control!
Abandoned carpet looms at Feltex mill in Riccarton, Christchurch
ANZ bank put Feltex into receivership and it is bought by Godfrey Hirst. ANZ gets its 160 m back but the shareholders (boo hoo) and workers get the shit end of the deal! What this proves is the rule of Aussie finance capital in NZ. ANZ and Hirst conspired to get the best deal for them both. ANZ came out of it with its Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-31531978041905965692012-05-27T21:27:00.002-07:002013-03-03T19:57:36.068-08:00NDU/Progressive settlement embeds class collaborationist partnership model
Supermarket workers during lockout in Auckland
A staunch struggle of the workers whose guts and loyalty to the union could have seen them take control of the dispute out of the hands of NDU leadership with its loyalty to the Labour Party and the legal partnership model of industrial relations where workers and bosses negotiate outcomes in the employment court, better known by Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-60914809982400501742012-05-27T21:13:00.002-07:002013-03-03T19:58:02.684-08:00Another Imperialist coup in Fiji?
Commander 'Frank' Bainimarama
The Fijian military has renewed its threat to depose the Government unless it drops its intentions to pardon those involved in the 2000 coup, and to put coastal property into the hands of tribal chiefs. The Australian government concerned to protect its economic interests in Fiji is pushing for the sacking of the Army chief for sedition. The head of the Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-13489217100166908162012-05-27T21:01:00.000-07:002013-03-03T19:58:30.252-08:00NZ Troops out of Tonga! For a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government!
Revolutionary graffiti from the political riot in Tonga
The long fight for democracy in Tonga has recently exploded into mass protest and the burning down of 80% of the capital Nuku’alofa. The cause was a rejection of the latest proposals for democratic reform agreed to by the King and Prime Minister, being rejected at the last minute. Responding to the government’s calls, Australia andDave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-20293634867046612572012-01-10T01:41:00.000-08:002013-03-03T20:01:01.742-08:00How to defend the gains of Cuban revolution
On August 1, we learned that Fidel Castro had to undergo abdominal surgery due to a serious illness. His brother, vice-president and minister of defence Raul Castro, was to take charge temporarily of the presidency of Cuba. Fidel's serious illness and his old age – he has just celebrated his 80th birthday – has put Cuba’s future centre stage again. Capitalist restoration or socialist Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-19232541989643858542012-01-10T01:30:00.000-08:002013-03-03T20:02:29.834-08:00Lebanon: a new front in the Imperialist-Zionist war for oil
Leninist Trotskyist Fraction statement A pact between the UN, Zionism, Siniora and the Hizbollah leadership tries to do what the Israeli army could not do, impose disarmament and surrender on the Hizbollah and Palestinian resistance. Out with the new troops of occupation of the imperialistic butchers of the UN! Turn the civil wars in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq into the beginning of the Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-37670489138686930692012-01-10T01:18:00.000-08:002012-01-10T01:18:25.083-08:00Islamic Fascism, or Zionist Fascism?The label ‘Islamic fascism’ has been thrown around by the far right for a long time. Now Bush has labelled Hizbollah ‘Islamic Fascists. Why has Bush gone all the way to demonise Islam? This can only be to deflect attention from the sheer barbarism of the US and Israel exporting democracy via missile launches onto the poor people of Gaza and Lebanon. Who really deserves the label ‘fascist’ today? Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-48971306027605995342012-01-10T01:10:00.000-08:002012-01-10T01:10:11.916-08:00UN/Zionist secret war against the ‘dirt eaters’Conspiracy
When US Senator Hiram W. Johnson said in 1917 ‘the first casualty when war comes is the truth’, he was speaking about Capitalist Imperialist war; though he didn’t know it at the time. Lies, deceit, distortions, omissions and fabrications are permanent fixtures in the capitalist arsenal in its relentless pursuit of ‘Permanent War.’ The military slaughter by the Israelis in Gaza Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-80354400607573942812012-01-10T01:01:00.000-08:002012-01-10T01:01:54.225-08:009-11: NZ ‘Locks on’ to US imperialism 9-11 five years ago was the excuse the US needed to launch the ‘war on terror’. This was a front for its imperialist oil wars to re-conquer the world. It opened up a new period of competition between the rival imperialist powers. 9-11 then, proved that we are still living in the epoch of imperialism. Here we explain how NZ’s role as a semi-colony supporting US imperialism’s War on Terror in Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-4908396357723624922012-01-10T00:43:00.000-08:002012-01-10T00:43:00.642-08:00Venezuela: Congress of the Nation Workers’ Union (UNT)We reproduce here an edited version of the FLT statement on the recent UNT(1) 2nd Congress held in May.(2) What could have been a major step towards working class independence from Chavez ended in a split between several factions, all competing to be the best Chavistas. Most significant, it is clear that the so-called Trotskyist groups in the UNT are not fighting for political independence Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-32399807702643806812012-01-10T00:26:00.000-08:002012-01-10T00:26:35.762-08:00Bolivia: Morales represses landless occupationsStatement of ORI (Workers Red International) We reprint a statement of the International Red October (ORI) of Bolivia against the repression of landless peasants’ occupations by Evo Morales Government. Those who say that Morales’ government is a progressive, popular, even revolutionary, government, must answer to these betrayals. The fact is that the ex-Trotskyists who are the left wing of the Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-74369997487606705602012-01-10T00:11:00.000-08:002012-01-10T00:11:58.153-08:00Stop Israel’s fascist attack on the Palestinian People!Leninist Trotskyist Fraction Statement From the 28 of June, the Zionist-Fascist state of Israel, has begun a new military offensive against the Palestinian workers and people. With the pretext of “freeing” an Israeli soldier who was captured by one of the Palestinian militias, it has surrounded and invaded the Gaza Strip –a territory of 400 square kilometers with a population of one-and-a-halfDave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-83582229025809076862012-01-10T00:00:00.000-08:002012-01-10T00:00:34.850-08:00Is Zionism Fascism?
We reprint below [in a separate post] the FLT statement in opposition to the Israeli attacks on Gaza. The FLT takes the view that the Israeli state is ‘Zionist-Fascist’. CWG has historically opposed the analysis of Israel as a ‘fascist’ regime as it is a form of democracy. We are opening this question up for debate in our group. Here a CWG member puts the outline of an argument in support of theDave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-8477247231607315492012-01-09T23:54:00.000-08:002012-01-09T23:54:11.249-08:00Labour Forum on Howard's 'Workchoices'The Labour Forum was held in the Auckland Trades Hall on Monday July 10 at 7-30. It was co-sponsored by Waitemata Unite! and the Rank-and-file group. 25 people turned up, rank and file members of 10 unions (possibly more I didnt see) and a few onside organisers. Political groups who had members there (not necessarily speaking for these groups) were Radical Youth, SWO and CWG. A useful step Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-38362821431186607962012-01-09T23:47:00.000-08:002012-01-09T23:47:47.083-08:00Poverty is the CrimeThe Governments Ministry of Social Development recently published its Report “New Zealand Living Standards 2004” revealed increased rates of poverty among solo parent families on benefits, especially Maori and Pacific Island families. A number of responses have all fixed upon poverty as the result of the wrong policy rather than the wrong social system. This is like reinventing the wheel and Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-32739429431185713312012-01-09T23:33:00.000-08:002012-01-09T23:33:03.255-08:00Defeat Mapp’s ‘Slave Labour’ BillUnion Campaign Mapp’s Bill is designed to remove workers rights in the first three months in any new job. It will open the gate to a more generalised attack on the unions and workers rights .Hone Harawira was right, it is a ‘slave labour’ Bill.The unions are geared up to get the Bill defeated in parliament. But defeating Mapp’s Bill in parliament is no guarantee that bigger and more severe Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-89220651800552510922012-01-09T23:26:00.000-08:002012-01-09T23:26:36.249-08:00Class Justice for the Kahui FamilyThe public outrage surrounding the deaths of the Kahui twins reveals a high level of racism toward poor Maori families in this country. Prominent Maori leaders joined the chorus to victimize the family. A member of the CWG who is also part of the larger Kahui whanau speaks of class justice as the only real justice for the Kahui twins. Kahui Bashing The 2006 launch of Matariki (Maori New Year)Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-49333866030619851232012-01-09T23:21:00.000-08:002012-01-09T23:21:07.566-08:00Union Busting : Real leadership for Postal WorkersNZ Posties in the Postal Workers Federation are engaged in industrial action to force NZ Post to negotiate a new collective with better pay and conditions. NZ Post is resisting a new Collective Agreement claiming the old one has expired and that PWF posties have to negotiate individual agreements or join a new union! 90% of PWF Posties have voted to take industrial action. This arrogant union Dave Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0