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By Tom Peters More than 1,000 medical laboratory workers in New Zealand held 24-hour strikes on November 17 and 20, with workers in different parts of the country striking on different days. The workers, including scientists, technicians, and phlebotomists, ...

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Laboratory workers, employed by private company Awanui, play a vital role in the health system but are paid poverty wages barely above the minimum wage.

After backing Israel’s genocidal bombing of Gaza for six weeks, the deeply discredited Labour Party issued a mealy-mouthed call for a ceasefire, as large protests continued across New Zealand.

Since her association with Leon Trotsky’s assassin, Ramón Mercader, Sylvia Ageloff has been demonised and vilified, pushed to the margins of history or simply ignored. What has been all too frequently lacking is any sense of respect, sympathy or understanding of her as a human being, a political activist and someone thrust into a situation not of her making. This short essay attempts to set the record straight.

Since her association with Leon Trotsky’s assassin, Ramón Mercader, Sylvia Ageloff has been demonised and vilified, pushed to the margins of history or simply ignored. What has been all too frequently lacking is any sense of respect, sympathy or understanding of her as a human being, a political activist and someone thrust into a situation not of her making. This short essay attempts to set the record straight.

The meeting, hosted by the Socialist Equality Group and International Youth and Students for Social Equality, discussed the genocide unfolding in Gaza and the way forward for the mass international protests to stop Israel’s slaughter and the developing Third World War.

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The Socialist Equality Group and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality in New Zealand is holding a public meeting calling for an end to the genocidal war being unleashed on the Palestinian population in Gaza. Important update: This ...

The Socialist Equality Group and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality will hold a public meeting on November 13 to oppose the genocidal war against the people of Gaza.