tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-249420912012-01-18T02:19:32.171-08:00COMMUNIST WORKERSdavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.comBlogger212125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-20293634867046612572012-01-10T01:41:00.000-08:002012-01-10T01:41:29.837-08:002012-01-10T01:41:29.837-08:00How to defend the gains of Cuban revolutionOn 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 revolution?davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-19232541989643858542012-01-10T01:30:00.000-08:002012-01-10T01:30:31.163-08:002012-01-10T01:30:31.163-08:00Lebanon: a new front in the Imperialist-Zionist war for oilLeninist 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 workersdavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-37670489138686930692012-01-10T01:18:00.000-08:002012-01-10T01:18:25.083-08:002012-01-10T01:18:25.083-08:00Islamic 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? davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-48971306027605995342012-01-10T01:10:00.000-08:002012-01-10T01:10:11.916-08:002012-01-10T01:10:11.916-08:00UN/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 and davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-80354400607573942812012-01-10T01:01:00.000-08:002012-01-10T01:01:54.225-08:002012-01-10T01:01:54.225-08:009-11: 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 davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-4908396357723624922012-01-10T00:43:00.000-08:002012-01-10T00:43:00.642-08:002012-01-10T00:43:00.642-08:00Venezuela: 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 davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-32399807702643806812012-01-10T00:26:00.000-08:002012-01-10T00:26:35.762-08:002012-01-10T00:26:35.762-08:00Bolivia: 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 davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-74369997487606705602012-01-10T00:11:00.000-08:002012-01-10T00:11:58.153-08:002012-01-10T00:11:58.153-08:00Stop 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-halfdavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-83582229025809076862012-01-10T00:00:00.000-08:002012-01-10T00:00:34.850-08:002012-01-10T00:00:34.850-08:00Is 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 thedavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-8477247231607315492012-01-09T23:54:00.000-08:002012-01-09T23:54:11.249-08:002012-01-09T23:54:11.249-08:00Labour 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 davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-38362821431186607962012-01-09T23:47:00.000-08:002012-01-09T23:47:47.083-08:002012-01-09T23:47:47.083-08:00Poverty 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 davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-32739429431185713312012-01-09T23:33:00.000-08:002012-01-09T23:33:03.255-08:002012-01-09T23:33:03.255-08:00Defeat 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 davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-89220651800552510922012-01-09T23:26:00.000-08:002012-01-09T23:26:36.249-08:002012-01-09T23:26:36.249-08:00Class 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)davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-49333866030619851232012-01-09T23:21:00.000-08:002012-01-09T23:21:07.566-08:002012-01-09T23:21:07.566-08:00Union 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 davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-59798848981592818572012-01-07T16:05:00.000-08:002012-01-07T16:05:25.031-08:002012-01-07T16:05:25.031-08:00France: Long live the Paris Commune!France, 4 April, 2006: Long live the struggle of the students, young people and the workers against the vicious attack of the government and the bosses! In order to defeat the CPE and labor flexibilisation, and end the slavery of the working class and its youth the workers and exploited people must send the imperialist Fifth Republic of Chirac-Villepin-Sarkozy, the imperialist state, and the davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-25447333677150008002012-01-07T15:40:00.000-08:002012-01-07T15:40:54.411-08:002012-01-07T15:40:54.411-08:00May 1! Solidarity with US Migrant Workers!On this May Day, 2006 we recognise and honour the struggles of oppressed people everywhere. We must take as our own the cause all those of the Iraqi resistance, the Palestinean people, the French youth, the Nepalese masses, the Bolivian workers and peasants, among many others. All of these struggles are fighting the same global capitalist system faced by the US migrant workers who are calling fordavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-58111400309080475682012-01-07T15:27:00.000-08:002012-01-07T15:27:11.011-08:002012-01-07T15:27:11.011-08:00Why nuke Iran?
The reformist left is alarmed at Bush and his threat to nuke Iran. They think that Bush is crazy and the alternative is a return to ‘sanity’. Juan Cole says a war with Iran might “alarm” the US public and “could cost the Republican Party its majority in Congress”. Wow, maybe good old US democracy in the form of the Democrats will come to the rescue at home. This would be an interesting twist to davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-16511293540191221242012-01-07T15:21:00.000-08:002012-01-07T15:21:38.579-08:002012-01-07T15:21:38.579-08:00Aotearoa: Spilt coming in Maori Party?At the rank and file level within the Maori Party, there has been disquiet and concern expressed at some of the actions of its co-leader Tariana Turia. In March, she accepted an invitation to the ACT Party’s annual conference in Wellington. The only dissent among the 4 Maori Party MP’s against her going to the conference came from Tai Tokerau member, Hone Harawira. This was consistent with his davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-40801150311987238012012-01-07T15:15:00.000-08:002012-01-07T15:15:00.231-08:002012-01-07T15:15:00.231-08:00Aotearoa: Workers Unite for What?Matt McCarten’s Unite Workers’ union sacrifices rank and file democracy for deals with bosses and parliamentary careers. McCarten is trying to enlist ‘his’ union as part of the World Social Forum reformist left bloc that tries to make deals between workers and ‘democratic’ bosses as the road to parliamentary socialism.
"My Union"
Unite Workers Association won a good wage increase from davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-34142204520883296142012-01-07T15:05:00.000-08:002012-01-07T15:05:06.267-08:002012-01-07T15:05:06.267-08:00Louise Nicholas: Support Rape VictimsThe Louise Nicholas case of rape against a senior serving police officer and two former police officers failed to get a conviction. Outraged by the result, supporters of Louise Nicholas claimed that two of those acquitted were already serving a jail sentence for rape, a fact that was suppressed under NZ’s penal law. Should such information be made known at trials or are their other ways of davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-67045107725691469372012-01-07T14:55:00.000-08:002012-01-07T14:55:19.386-08:002012-01-07T14:55:19.386-08:00Hands off the Solomons!
Most of the media coverage of recent events in the Solomon Islands has focused on the sensational details of riot and disorder: burning buildings, beaten-up cops, and looted shops have all been paraded across our screens. Explanations of the reasons for the riots in Honiara have been hard to find. Some commentators like Russell Brown have resorted to racist stereotypes of an uncontrollable 'davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-39667518290507137602012-01-07T14:38:00.000-08:002012-01-07T14:38:50.763-08:002012-01-07T14:38:50.763-08:00Aotearoa: 'Clean Start' campaignCWG members were at the Methodist City Mission Hall, for the Auckland launch of the Clean Start - Fair Deal for Cleaners campaign, which is being waged in New Zealand by the Service and Food Workers Union and in Australia by the SFWU's sister union, the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union. About one hundred and twenty people - union organisers, delegates, rank and file members, davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-52766929372717464272012-01-07T14:32:00.000-08:002012-01-07T14:32:17.077-08:002012-01-07T14:32:17.077-08:00International MayDay, One Class! One Fight! Occupy, it’s our right!On this day ever since the hanging of four workers in Chicago in 1886, arising out of a strike for the 8 hour day, workers around the world have come together in marches, rallies and strikes, to celebrate their common membership of an international working class that continues to struggle against all its class enemies for its emancipation from the chains of capitalism. The struggle continues davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-53441175350256871242012-01-07T14:25:00.000-08:002012-01-07T14:25:03.254-08:002012-01-07T14:25:03.254-08:00Civil War threatens in East Timor, Australian and New Zealand troops out of East Timor!East Timor is on the brink of civil war, after a revolt by rank and file soldiers and a series of bloody attacks on protesters by police. This is the direct result of US imperialism’s role, backed by its local sheriffs, Australia and New Zealand, in suppressing East Timor’s struggle for independence since it conspired in the Indonesian coup of General Suhato in 1965. Police kill rebels and davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24942091.post-64771419952213640842012-01-07T04:03:00.000-08:002012-01-07T04:03:03.132-08:002012-01-07T04:03:03.132-08:00Film Review: Brokeback Mountain
Directed by Ang Lee Starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal 134 Minutes Brokeback Mountain has been getting a lot of press in the US and elsewhere as a breakthrough movie from Hollywood that’s deals openly with gay issues. The Hollywood movie moguls have not been known for their willingness to embrace these issues and very few mainstream movies have dealt with them in a positive manner. davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12873621971212067467noreply@blogger.com0