A curious contrast of perception grew up around Jacinda Ardern during the five years she spent as prime minister of New Zealand before her resignation in late January. Internationally she had been feted as a celebrity politician and liberal darling, the supposed “world’s anti-Trump” who capably steered New Zealand through...
‘Pink Tides’ & Popular Fronts
Latin America is in turmoil, buckling under the pressures of imperialist exploitation, the lingering impact of the Covid-19 crisis and rampant inflation fueled in part by the US/NATO-led war in Ukraine. An estimated 267 million people, or 40.6 percent, of the region’s population are “food insecure,” up 9 percent since...
Rearranging the Deckchairs
Every six to nine years, the small imperialist state of Aotearoa New Zealand replaces its centre-left governing coalition with a centre-right coalition, or vice-versa. The bell now tolls for the current Labour–Green government, an alliance between a party of the union bureaucracy that long ago traded in its social-democratic programme...
Marxism & Indigenous Peoples
Of the many lies promoted by the Canadian ruling class and its political representatives, one of the more perverse is the carefully crafted narrative of a “renewed relationship” between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. “Reconciliation” is a public-relations ploy designed to rehabilitate the image of the Canadian state and spare it...