Page 57 - Equality Group News Today

Defend Boğaziçi University students against police state repression! Sosyalist Eşitlik (Socialist Equality Group) strongly condemns the police attacks and detention of more than 150 students yesterday at the Boğaziçi University in İstanbul and in İzmir. Police attacks on students around Boğaziçi University and in İzmir began yesterday at noon. They continued as hundreds of police armed with rifles entered Boğaziçi University, responding to a call by its rector, Melih Bulu. They deta...

I have concerns about the enthusiasms of NZ police from time to time, but I wouldnt trade the worst of them for Russians. Herodotus 3 Great to read this, thank you to the the community and mana whenua, for some real action on our environment. I just hope that all abide by this and we dont see any going against this as it is viewed as "optional". Better to see the local body/govt formalise this. Better still enlarge such protection into other areas �� "Mana whenua on Wa...

By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group About 300 people gathered outside New Zealand’s parliament in Wellington on January 26 to demand government action to address catastrophic climate change. The rally was led by groups of high school students but also included ...

Scoop Community provides New Zealand Community news and views

Irish health system on brink of collapse as COVID-19 figures surge Micheál Martin (credit: Wikimedia Commons) On January 8, a record 8,248 COVID-19 infections and 20 deaths, were registered. Eight further deaths and 6,888 new cases were reported on Monday. In total, there have now been a staggering 135,884 infections and 2,237 people have died. In the last two weeks, more than 50,000 cases have been reported, accounting for 40 percent of all cases recorded since the outbreak of the pandemic la...

(Fixes reference to job interviews by video, paragraph 17) By Jane Wardell and Conway Gittens Jan 12 (Reuters) - The upheaval in global labour markets...

Tuesday, 12 January 2021, 3:27 pm Tom Peters The report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch terror attack, made public last month, asserts that there was no way any state agency could have detected fascist gunman Brenton Tarrant and prevented his massacre of 51 people on March 15, 2019. This finding is not supported by evidence. All the inquiry’s hearings were held in secret. Thousands of pages of submissions, and hundreds of interviews, have been permanently suppressed....

HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/FUTUREOFWORK (CORRECTED, UPDATE 1, PIX, TV):REFILE-REUTERS NEXT-For many, COVID-19 has changed the world of work for good

The upheaval in global labour markets triggered by the coronavirus pandemic will transform the working lives of millions of employees for good, policymakers and business leaders told a Reuters virtual forum on Tuesday.

millsy 2.2 Muldoon refused to devalue the NZ Dollar under the instructions of the incoming Labour government, instead proposing a joint statement ruling out devaluation. However he backed down after his cabinet or caucus threatened to, in the case of the former, resign en masse/ask the GovGen to sack him and in the case of the latter, remove him as leader of the National Party. There are conflicting rumours. He was fine with going, he just didnt want to devalue. Adrian ...