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Hi folks, while NZ workers remain almost perversely passive in the face of stagnant living standards, workers in other countries are fighting for better. We've put up some stories about some of these fights. Workers have defeated an anti-working class and anti-union bill brought forward by the Spanish government: https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2017/04/13/spanish-lessons-for-nz-workers-use-class- struggle-methods-to-defeat-government-attacks/ At the start of this month, workers in Argentina staged a general strike: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/04/08/argentinian- lessons-the-april-6-general-strike-shows-us-how-to-fight/ In France, a working class candidate has made a big impression challenging the parties of the right (including the French Labourites): https://rdln. wordpress.com/2017/04/13/working-class-candidate- upsets-the-establishment-in-french-presidential-election-debate/ In New Zealand, however, all the parliamentary parties stand for essentially the same thing: managing the system based on the exploitation of workers. In this situation, maybe what we need is a campaign for positive abstention in the September elections: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/04/09/for-a-campaign-of- positive-abstention-in-the-2017-elections/ Meanwhile, in the other obscenities of capitalism pile, Trump's missile attack in Syria has sent the stock values of weapons manufacturers up by % billion US dollars, the chief beneficiary being Raytheon, a company in which Trump held (possibly still does) shares: https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2017/04/10/bombing-syria-a-nice-little-earner-for-trumps- favourite-manufacturer-of-weapons-of-mass-destruction/ And in the scapegoating department, Labour is at it again: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/04/10/twyford-is-at-it-again/ Lastly, in new stuff, we have a review of an important new book about how the state of Israel was founded on the use of terrorism: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/04/14/in-review-state-of- terror-how-terrorism-created-modern-israel/ Good reading (and please do think about leaving comments in the comments sections underneath articles). And anyone interested in writing stuff, do contact us. Phil 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
