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		<title>The 1951 Lockout of port workers lasted 151 days</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 1951 Waterfront Lockout and class struggle The 1951 Lockout is one of the most important labour disputes in NZ history. It lasted 151 days and ended in defeat of the wharfies and their allies in the labour movement. But at the same time it is a struggle that represents the best traditions of working [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=situationsvacant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2591744&amp;post=170&amp;subd=situationsvacant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disaster Capitalism Downunder</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capitalist disasters The common broad left response to disasters such as the recent Christchurch 6.3 &#8216;quake&#8217; that has wrecked many buildings and will probably have a death toll of over 200 people, is that of &#8216;Disaster Capitalism&#8217; as popularised by Naomi Klein in The Shock Doctrine. This argues that today capitalism survives by using shocks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=situationsvacant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2591744&amp;post=150&amp;subd=situationsvacant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RIP,  SHIT, BUST: 29 Pike River miners find their Wealth in Heaven</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Runanga Miners Hall has emblazoned on its frontage 1908 The &#8220;World’s Wealth for the World’s Workers”. And below it “United we Stand, Divided we Fall&#8221;; but that was a century ago. Now it’s the bosses’ banner, “world’s wealth to the world’s wealthy”. And the C21st global capitalist motto &#8220;Divided we Stand, United we Fall&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=situationsvacant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2591744&amp;post=133&amp;subd=situationsvacant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Talking about Suicide</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tyranny of Silence When my son Bruno killed himself in January 2007 my first impulse was to talk about it. I, my partner, and the rest of my family, came up immediately against the press guidelines that do not allow mention of suicide as a cause of death in the mainstream media. Naively we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=situationsvacant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2591744&amp;post=52&amp;subd=situationsvacant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How the &#8216;Labour left&#8217; sold out NZ workers in the 1990s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 10:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book Review No Left Turn: The Distortion of NZ’s history by Greed, Bigotry and Right-wing politics By Chris Trotter. Random House, NZ, 2007 Part One: Keeping the social democratic torch alight Chris Trotter’s new book is an attempt to revive the flagging hopes of the social democratic left in New Zealand. He sees NZ history [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=situationsvacant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2591744&amp;post=38&amp;subd=situationsvacant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Jacques: Derrida and the Ghost of Marxism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction For the bourgeoisie, the collapse of &#8220;communism&#8221; made the world-historic victory of capitalism seem certain. Yet the contradictions of capitalism immediately called the new world order into question as globalisation brought with it what Jacques Derrida calls the &#8220;10 plagues&#8221;. Apologists for capitalism are now fearful of the return of Marx&#8217;s ghost. George Soros [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=situationsvacant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2591744&amp;post=31&amp;subd=situationsvacant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Antipodean Marxism meets Indigenous Peoples&#8217; Struggles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hone Tuwhare and Poster of Karl Marx as Construction Worker Introduction Today the struggle of indigenous peoples in Australasia is becoming institutionalised in international law and the post-modern politics of multi-cultural &#8216;difference&#8217;. When Derrida can visit Australia and NZ and be hailed as a partisan of indigeneity (Bedggood, 1999); when Lyotard can be invoked to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=situationsvacant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2591744&amp;post=29&amp;subd=situationsvacant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lost in the Crowd? Hardt and Negri&#8217;s Empire and Multitude in Argentina</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction In their book Empire Hardt and Negri argue that today world capitalism has entered a new stage of development. ‘Empire’ is different from imperialism and is bigger than any particular country including the US. ‘Empire&#8217; is opposed by the &#8216;multitude&#8217; that is different from, and yet has greater potential for resistance, than pre-existing conceptions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=situationsvacant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2591744&amp;post=28&amp;subd=situationsvacant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Modern Greek Tragedy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review of Vincent O’Sullivan’s Long Journey to the Border: A Life of John Mulgan Penguin Books 2003 Introduction John Mulgan has a big name in New Zealand. He is portrayed in the literary culture and even the popular culture as a national hero. His reputation is larger than life because of the ‘mystery’ of his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=situationsvacant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2591744&amp;post=23&amp;subd=situationsvacant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Situations Vacant</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marx and Engels looking forward This is a session on ‘Social Critics’ and ‘Public Intellectuals’. But what do these terms mean in the current context? What ‘Society’? What ‘criticism’? What ‘Public’? What ‘intellectuals’? I do not accept the adequacy of these terms as a basis for discussing the public role of sociologists. What sociologists practice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=situationsvacant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2591744&amp;post=1&amp;subd=situationsvacant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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