Sideshow Bob Parker and his council supporters, including Councillor's Sue Wells and Barry Corbett, have approved a timetable for offer...
MORE FAILED NEOLIBERALISM
National may of not cut welfare benefits or the pension and it might not have touched Working For Families, but ordinary people are still pa...
HENDO FACING MORE COURT ACTION
Embattled property developer Dave Henderson is facing more court action in the coming days. Creditors are seeking to wind up his company Pro...
LANE WALKER RUDKIN COLLAPSE: SIDESHOW BOB SIDESTEPS THE ISSUE
Mayor Sideshow Bob Parker hasn't had much to say about the loss of some 186 workers at Lane Walker Rudkin. In fact, a scan through his m...
REPEATING THE SAME OLD MISTAKES
I was going through a few old books the other day and I came across a little number called Alternatives: Socialist Essays for the 1980's...
KAWARAU FALLS: ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST
The crisis of global capitalism has hit New Zealand's largest construction project with an almighty bang. The $1 billion Kawarau Falls S...
HAVE A LAMINGTON!
John Bowscawen's Simple Lamington Recipe 3 eggs 1/2 cup castor sugar 3/4 cup self-raising flour 1/4 cup cornflour 15g (1/2oz) butter 3 t...
HENDO AND 'THE MASTER PLAN'
Last week the Christchurch City Council released a 'Master Plan' which outlines the council's proposals for the south side of ce...
NEW BLACKBALL BLOG
Sandra from the great Letters From Wetville blog sent me an email regarding a new blog she has set up. Actually, she sent it to me around t...
RADIO GA GA
I used to occasionally listen to Radio Live's Sunday morning show with Andrew Patterson and Finlay MacDonald. It was a little too comfor...
NDU FAILS SACKED WORKERS
The National Distribution Union's cake stall for the 186 Lane Walker Rudkin workers who have lost their jobs raised some $1300 - which c...
THE CURE FOR LAYOFFS: FIRE THE BOSS!
With the National Distribution Union failing to adequately respond to the closure of Lane Walker Rudkin, its worth taking a look at what'...
COLIN KAY GETS AWAY WITH IT - AGAIN
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries officials were never going to find anything wrong with Colin Kay's barbaric piggery because the ...
COLIN KAY: PIG FARMERS MUST BE 'ANIMAL LOVERS'
The owner of the Levin pig farm under scrutiny for the poor treatment of its animals is Colin Kay. Kay is a former director of the New Zeala...
DAVID CARTER IS PLAYING POLITICAL GAMES
Agriculture Minister David Carter is playing political games when he says he that he wants to see if the intensive pig farming operation exp...
THE NDU'S HOPELESS RESPONSE TO MASS REDUNDANCIES AT LWR - A CAKE STALL
In Europe and elsewhere workers are occupying factories threatened with closure. Here in New Zealand, the National Distribution Union's ...
THE TRAIN WRECK CALLED ECONOMIC LIBERALISM
Some neoliberal commentators claim the global economic meltdown is just a blip on the radar. It's just more ideological delusion from T...
THE GREEN'S 'SAME OLD DEAL'
Echoing US President Barack Obama's so-called 'New Deal', the Green Party have called for a 'Green New Deal'. But rather...
186 JOBS GONE AT LANE WALKER RUDKIN
The first wave of redundancies have been announced at Lane Walker Rudkin. The Pahiatua and Greytown factories have been closed entirely wit...
CHRIS TROTTER'S COUNSEL OF DESPAIR
A week or so ago Chris Trotter accused me of having a problem. The specific political problem he is accusing me of is that I have to work at...
FIRE SALE AT LWR: SUBSTANTIAL JOB LOSSES ON THE WAY
BDO Spicers, the receivers for Lane Walker Rudkin, are putting up the business for sale. The business will be broken up for sale with the ho...
WHAT HAVE TVNZ's 'SUNDAY' AND DAVID BRENT GOT IN COMMON?
Over the years I think I've fired a fair number of critical salvoes at New Zealand television and its relentless dumbing down. But it re...
DEMOCRACY NOW!
I'm not going to comment on the Napier shootings but I thought it telling that, suddenly, both TV1 and TV3 found the resources to send a...
LWR: RECEIVERS PLAN TO SELL BRISBANE FACTORY, 60 JOBS TO GO
Across the Tasman, the bad news for Lane Walker Rudkin workers has come early. The Courier-Mail in Sydney has reported that sixty workers a...
WESTPAC: THE WORLD'S MOST PROFITABLE BANK-BUT IT STILL CALLS IN THE RECEIVERS AT LWR
Westpac, the bank that placed Lane Walker Rudkin in receivership, is the world's most profitable bank. The Canterbury clothing manufactu...
PROSPECTS DON'T LOOK GOOD FOR LWR WORKERS
The prospects of LWR workers keeping their jobs don't look good in the light of Mayor Sideshow Bob Parker's most recent comments. Af...
LWR: SUPPORT FROM CALIFORNIA
Here's another comment I thought worth highlighting given the dire situation at Lane Walker Rudkin: My small business in California has ...
PATHETIC RESPONSE FROM COUNCIL OF TRADE UNIONS TO RISING JOBLESS FIGURES
The 'official unemployment figure has risen from 4.7 percent to 5 percent of the population or 115,000 people. While the media has high...
THE LWR COLLAPSE: NO ANSWERS FROM POLITICIANS AND UNION OFFICIALS
Is there any hope for local Canterbury manufacturer Lane Walker Rudkin and the nearly five hundred jobs that are on the line? Today Mayor S...
DEAN PARKER REPLIES
Dean Parker has responded to the post 'We Will Not Cease' (April 26) and I thought it was worth highlighting. Here it is: I'm a ...
LEFT IS RIGHT AND RIGHT IS LEFT
Chris Trotter has been crying into his computer again. Chris can't understand why National lead Labour by the proverbial country mile in...
EMPTY WORDS FROM SIDESHOW BOB
Mayor Sideshow Bob Parker has expressed his concern about the collapse of Lane Walker Rudkin and the real probability that nearly 500 jobs w...
ROSA LUXEMBURG: THE ORIGINS OF MAY DAY
The happy idea of using a proletarian holiday celebration as a means to attain the eight-hour day was first born in Australia. The workers t...