Mass killer of 51 Muslims gets Life in Jail
The sign of the alt-right – the OK symbol formed by thumb and index finger with the other fingers fanned into a K above the O – is inverted right there in the… Continue reading
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Aotearoa: a Covid Election in a Dying World in the Age of Rotten Capitalism
Yes, this is a Covid election in a dying world. A pandemic caused by capitalism in its old age destroying habitats and forcing species to jump. Made worse by the economic collapse after… Continue reading
80 years since the assassination of Trotsky by a Stalinist agent in Mexico
Trotsky in 1905. Police mugshot as the chairman of the St. Petersburg Soviet It is 80 years since Trotsky was assassinated by a Stalinist agent in Mexico. Today our task is to rebuild… Continue reading
Revolutionary lessons from the Pandemic
Growth has to stop. The pandemic proved that mass lockdown and economic shutdown was needed to stop it. It took a while for biological science to catch up with Covid 19 because it… Continue reading
Black Lives Matter, Capitalism, and European White Supremacy
Racism as it erupted into global consciousness in recent days to confront a growing mass movement, is the surface manifestation of a much deeper problem – capitalism. There is no aspect of… Continue reading
Who is going to pay for the ‘recovery’?
As stated in The Daily Blog repeatedly, the pandemic is not an isolated event, but a symptom of capitalism in its terminal crisis. The virus was released as a result of centuries… Continue reading
Budget whinging vs socialist planning
Tons of reaction to the Budget that confines itself to who got what and who missed out, and why that is a bad or good thing. Have you noticed that it’s all about… Continue reading
May Day 2020 and the fight for a socialist future!
May Day 2020 marks a critical time where humanity has to choose between keeping a dying capitalism on its feet at the expense of nature and humanity, or, rejecting this bleak future and… Continue reading
What’s behind our love-hate relationship with China?
Aotearoa/NZ is in an unbreakable love hate relationship with China. Like a child we are dependent on China for economic growth so long as we are locked into the capitalist world-economy. We may… Continue reading
After COVID-19: “Business as Usual”? No thanks!
The answer to “the new normal” is a Workers’ Action Plan People are using their lockdown time to speculate about what the ‘new normal’ will look like after the COVID-19 crisis is over. … Continue reading
From the Coronavirus to the Commune: how to rescue humanity from destruction
The response to the coronavirus pandemic cannot be read in isolation of capitalism in terminal decline. In a sentence it is another example of nature biting back against its destruction at the… Continue reading
Ihumātao: from Colony to Commune
Hikoi in support of the land occupation at Ihumātao, Auckland, Aotearoa/NZ Ihumātao began as Māori land used for gardening. After British colonisation in the 1840s it also supplied the settlers in Auckland.… Continue reading