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this week we have some important major articles new on Redline. Malcolm Deans, secretary of Unions Otago and an activist in the Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement, writing in a personal capacity, looks at the attack by Talleys on its workers, which is turning into a very important industrial dispute. Talley has been mobilising the courts, iwi leaders and whatever forces it can against meat workers. Malcolm provides an in-depth account of this dispute here: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/meatworkers-battle-with-talleys-important-for-all-workers/ In "'Respect for diversity': modern NZ capitalism's necessary ideology", Philip Ferguson looks at how changes in NZ capitalism, class relations and demography have given birth to new, dominant forms of ideology which have been dominant for several decades in NZ now, while much the left remains stuck in the 1970s/1980s, acting as if the old conservative traditionalism that was obsolete by the 1980s was still dominant: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/10/31/respect-for-diversity-modern-nz-capitalisms-necessaryby-ideology/ Much of the left, most particularly the dominant liberal left, also lives on a diet of scaremongering about particular individuals, with the fears about them usually being misplaced. Today we've out up a couple of articles from 2005 and 2006 looking at how so much of the left misinterpreted what Don Brash was about when he became leader of the National Party, leading up to the 2005 election: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/from-the-vaults-two-articles-on-don-brash-the-left-and-21st-century-nz-bourgeois-ideology/ This month marks the 4th anniversary of the Pike River disaster in which 29 mine workers were, in effect, killed by the bosses' pursuit for profit at the expense of workers' safety. We've collected our set of articles on the Pike River disaster and who was responsible here: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/never-forget-pike-river-the-lessons-we-need-to-draw/ And Don Franks has penned a poem in solidarity with the workers at New World: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/10/30/new-world-nightmare/ We've also put up again our piece from some years ago on the origins of Labour Day in New Zealand: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/labour-days-origins-in-new-zealand/ Don't forget to pass on the urls to anyone you think might be interested in any of these pieces and please think about writing something in the comments section under any of the above articles. All the best, Philip Ferguson for the Redline blog collective _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
