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UNITY: Summit in Venezuela opens 'new phase in history'
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Capitalism’s terminal crisis. Unions and economic strategy. Monday, 5 December 2011. Summit in Venezuela opens 'new phase in history'. From Green Left Weekly. A summit of huge importance was held in Venezuela on December 2-3. Two hundred years after Latin America’s independence fighters first raised the battle cry for a united Latin America, 33 heads of states from across the region came together to form the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). These include the Union of South Americ...
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UNITY: Introducing the Robin Hood Tax – Tax Justice in New Zealand
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Capitalism’s terminal crisis. Unions and economic strategy. Friday, 4 November 2011. Introducing the Robin Hood Tax – Tax Justice in New Zealand. Notes from a talk at Occupy Wellington on 29 October, 2011, to coincide with the #RobinHood Global March (http:/ www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/robinhood.html). By Tax Justice spokesperson and eco-socialist activist GRANT BROOKES. What has driven both developments is a realisation that the current world order is failing us - the 99% around the world - a...
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UNITY: Towards Ecosocialism
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Capitalism’s terminal crisis. Unions and economic strategy. Monday, 16 January 2012. A contribution to Socialist Worker's Pre-Conference Bulletin, January 2012]. 8220;The method of rising from the abstract to the concrete is only the way in which thought appropriates the concrete, reproduces it as the concrete in the mind.” So said Marx, in the Grundrisse of 1859. This is why discussion at Socialist Worker national conferences begins by considering the abstract totality, the global system as a whole.
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UNITY: Epsom debate: Banks attacks Brash
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Capitalism’s terminal crisis. Unions and economic strategy. Friday, 11 November 2011. Epsom debate: Banks attacks Brash. John Key has claimed that ACT is a “stable party”. But a picture paints a thousand words. Three photos from the Epsom meet the candidates debate. 1/ MANA candidate Pat O’Dea shows the people of Epsom who they are really voting for. 3/ Hell breaks loose! Fortunately, the Don Brash picture had been laminated against such attacks. But who knew John Banks would be the one to try? Click ima...
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UNITY: Unions and economic strategy
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Capitalism’s terminal crisis. Unions and economic strategy. Unions and economic strategy. CTU: Alternative Economic Strategy – final draft. People are the heart of the real economy. People work to produce the goods and services, innovate, save and invest. And it is for people that the economy should work to provide our needs. It should enable us to create better lives in terms of our welfare and happiness as individuals, community and wider society. New strategy from NZ union leaders. The land of 15% GST.
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UNITY: Join Socialist Worker
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Capitalism’s terminal crisis. Unions and economic strategy. Socialist Worker is a Marxist group with a wealth of experience of struggle in Aotearoa. We have provided leadership through ideas in this country and globally. We are pioneering a Marxist analysis of capitalism's terminal crisis, which will require a Global Uniting of broad left forces if humanity is to transition to an equitable, sustainable and democratic future. Or phone 021-0415 082. 1 Workers power, not bosses power. Published 2006 - 2010.
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UNITY: A new kind of paper (and a new kind of organisation?)
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Capitalism’s terminal crisis. Unions and economic strategy. Monday, 16 January 2012. A new kind of paper (and a new kind of organisation? A contribution to Socialist Worker's Pre-Conference Bulletin, January 2012]. Socialist Worker members have been advocating an Eco-Socialist Network for some time. Recently a network promoting the capitalistcollapse analysis has also been proposed. I support both networks, but I think there remains a need for a distinct revolutionary socialist / marxist voice. Beyond th...
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UNITY: Eco-Socialism
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Capitalism’s terminal crisis. Unions and economic strategy. Following the success of the Eco-Socialism Aotearoa Facebook group, which we set up in 2009, Socialist Worker has initiated an Eco-Socialist Network. As a first step we are collecting names and email addresses. The next step will be establishing a website and on-line forum for networking and discussion. To join the Eco-Socialist Network email vaughan(at)ecosocialist.net. Climate Change / Social Change conference. In New Zealand in early 2012.
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UNITY: Resolution of 2012 conference of Socialist Worker
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Capitalism’s terminal crisis. Unions and economic strategy. Sunday, 29 January 2012. Resolution of 2012 conference of Socialist Worker. The defining event of our times is world capitalism’s historic slide towards collapse under the chaotic, intersecting and escalating pressures of five terminal crises:. 8226; profitability,. 8226; ecology,. 8226; resources,. 8226; imperial leadership,. This is the context for this resolution of Socialist Worker’s 2012 conference:. 3 Wind up Socialist Worker:. 8226; (b) h...
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UNITY: Goodbye Lenin?
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Capitalism’s terminal crisis. Unions and economic strategy. Monday, 16 January 2012. A contribution to Socialist Worker's Pre-Conference Bulletin, January 2012]. 8220; we are each given the experiences we need and I do not regret the craziness of those initial years, even though I know now that much of my energy and actions was misplaced.”. This paper is an exploration of ten years experience as a member of a revolutionary socialist organisation, and a question about what happens next. Any serious ecosoc...