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Sep

2011

Socialist Alternative - Student resistance in New Zealand

"Scenes that have not been seen in New Zealand universities in a decade – these could well be the opening moves in a titanic shift in the power relations inside New Zealand universities. Yet whether the shift is in favour of students, lecturers and the community or in favour of the corporates and the neoliberals is still to be decided."

www.sa.org.au/index.php

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new_zealand students university education protests Neoliberalism

Rising fees, attacks on lecturers’ work rights, the passage of the VSM Bill [voluntary student membership – similar to the VSU bill introduced by the Howard government in Australia] in two weeks time, the closure of popular academic departments and the increasingly authoritarian style of university management make the situation on our campuses potentially inflammatory.

Mar

2010

AGAINST THE CURRENT: GREEK UNIONS SHOW HOW IT IS DONE

In Greece yesterday skirmishes broke out between riot police and protesters as unions and workers stepped up their resistance to the austerity measures that the Greek Government, under pressure from the European Union, is attempting to impose.

nzagainstthecurrent.blogspot.com/...nions-show-how-it-is-done.html

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greece workers unions protests strike austerity financial_crisis new_zealand Against_the_Current

There have been two general strikes this week involving hundreds of thousands of workers. Not surprisingly workers have no intention to accept the burden of an economic crisis they are not responsible for.