A Crashing Roof and Poor Foundations
By (Guest Contributor) Pink Panther A white man in his early twenties named Dylann Roof walked into a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and joined in with a Bible study group. At the end he pulled...
View ArticleWooly Thinking
by (Guest Contributor) Pink Panther Sheep. There are about thirty million of these animals in New Zealand. For almost a decade the number of sheep plummeted as farmers switched from them to dairy...
View ArticleSyrian People
by (Guest Contributor) Pink Panther The outbreak of the Syrian civil war during the Arab Spring of 2011 has created the biggest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War. Over 3 million have fled...
View ArticleMovie Review: 13 Minutes (2014)
What strategies are best when opposing a dictatorship? A co-ordinated mass reaction by the populace would be an ideal response. The trouble is, such an ideal sometimes doesn’t happen. In these cases it...
View ArticleDebunking the 9/11 Truthers
by (Guest Contributor) Pink Panther September 11th, 2015, marked the 14th Anniversary of the Twin Towers/Pentagon terrorist attacks. Unfortunately from very early on, conspiracy stories began...
View ArticleBombings in Ankara
On 10th of October, two bombs exploded in the Turkish capital Ankara at a peace rally. They caused dozens of deaths, creating the worst such attack in the country’s history. With the Turkish state...
View ArticleWorld Kobane Day: 1 November
On World Kobane Day the Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement wishes to join the many groups across the world who are expressing their support and solidarity to the people fighting for their freedoms...
View ArticleWhy Are Junior Doctors in the UK So Pissed Off?
Note: Below is an interview looking at the recent actions of Junior Doctors in the UK and the difficult work conditions they encounter. …………………………………………………………………………… After marching around the country...
View ArticleMeat workers’ struggles at Talley’s AFFCO
Since 7th September up to 150 New Zealand Meat Workers Union members at AFFCO’s Wairoa shed have been refusing to sign draconian new Individual Employment Agreements (IEAs) that AFFCO are making a...
View ArticleEritrea: National Liberation? National Disaster?
By (Guest Contributor) Pink Panther The world is divided into nation-states. These artificial constructs have either evolved over an extended period, through the actions of people within particular...
View ArticleAnti-TPPA Hikoi in Rotorua
Over a dozen governments in the Asia-Pacific region have been secretly working on a trade agreement called the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). They have finally released the nearly 6,000...
View ArticleSystem change, not climate change
The twenty-first meeting of the Conference of Participants (COP21) will take place at the end of this month in Paris. The purpose of the COP21, also known as the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, will be...
View ArticleLeft to Your Own Devices
Coltan. Sounds like the name of an evil king in a cheap sci-fi movie, doesn’t it? In fact, it is a mineral that has electricity conducting properties. Without it the Samsung device I am typing this on...
View ArticleA Good Century So Far?
In an editorial at the beginning of the year, the New Zealand Herald announced that as we enter the second half of the second decade of the 21st century, having enjoyed “a long period of comparative...
View ArticleThe ‘Deserving’ Poor
The Kapiti Coast is located approximately 40 kilometres north of Wellington. Like most places it has its fair share of problems. One of the biggest is the lack of low income and emergency housing....
View ArticleEaster Rising
This year people in Ireland are commemorating the centenary of what became known as the Easter Rising. In April 1916, a small mixed group of Republicans and Socialist-influenced revolutionaries took...
View ArticleTrumped: The Decline of the USA
By (Guest Contributor) Pink Panther On March 1st, 2016, was an event known as Super Tuesday in the United States. It’s when the delegates in the Democratic and Republican parties in eleven key states...
View ArticleTamaki Housing Action
On the 31st March 2,800 state houses in Glen Innes, Panmure and Point England are going to be transferred to the Tāmaki Housing Association (the social landlord component of the Tāmaki Redevelopment...
View ArticleThe Old Shell Game
By (Guest Contributor) Pink Panther When somebody named ‘John Doe’ accessed the computers of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca in early 2015 the hacker began to pass on the estimated 11.5 million...
View ArticleIntroduction to the Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement (AWSM 2009)
Download leaflet. The Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement (AWSM) is an organisation working towards a classless, stateless society: anarchist-communism. That society would be run by a federation of...
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