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NATIONAL HURTS WOMEN TO HOLD ON TO POWER
Many people don’t vote for National because they don’t like their economic policies, which favour the rich and hurt the poor. But it’s also important to understand that National creates policies and a...
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Dirty Politics and Capital
Nicky Hager's latest political expose "Dirty Politics" has exposed attitudes towards power which could be called "entitled", as well as the toxic interpersonal relationships which drive the people at...
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Transgender politics
Representation in the bourgeois parliament can be important to any liberation struggle that is still in its infancy. Yet 15 years after the first transgender person was elected to the New Zealand...
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By our works, Earth shall succeed
Brother and sister comrades, the end is nigh! We have given our consent through inaction for the interests of capitalism to take what they please, to rape the earth we were born on, and pillage the...
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2014 Elections and the Revolutionary left.
The latest round of New Zealand parliamentary elections (2014) have smashed all hopes of a centre left government in New Zealand, with Labour polling it's lowest result in nearly 100 years. Worse,...
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Privatisation of HNZ housing
I'm not opposed to house owners wanting to sell their homes, but I do oppose any sale of state owned houses, being sold against the support of the majority. These are assets that have been built up...
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TPPA, bad for your health?
Is the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) the biggest threat to our democracy in a generation, or is it really going to be everything the government says it will be? As a nurse working in the...
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A Critique of Crisis Theory- a Socialist day school with Mike Treen
The following is based on talks given by Mike Treen, national director of the New Zealand Unite Union, at the annual conference of the socialist organisation Fightback, held in Wellington, May 31 -...
View ArticleThe Time has Come for Rent Control
By any measure, the housing market in Auckland is overheated. Thousands of Kiwi first home buyers are being forced out by Speculators looking for a way to trade printed money for physical assets....
View ArticleA return to street politics with nationwide demonstratons against the tppa
A return to street politics with tppa demos throughout Aotearoa.Thousands of peeople took to the streets of Auckland and many more in other centres throught Aotearoa to protest the tppa. Socialist...
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Solidarity with and for meat workers more important than ever
originally published on the Daily Blog. published here with the permission of the author.Solidarity with and for meat workers more important than everMore than 70% of AFFCO’s meat workers are Maori, in...
View ArticleNot My Stonewall.
Erasure of people of colour in a Hollywood feature is nothing new. Nor is the tired practice of casting a cisgender man in the role of a Transgender Female character. Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall movie...
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British Imperialism and the Nz flag.
As an Irish Kiwi, I could never be represented by a flag with that Butcher's Apron in the corner. It flew over Ireland when British imperialism put our people through a Late Victorian Holocaust, a...
View ArticleInternational Socialist Tendency statement on the European refugee crisis
By The Coordination of the International Socialist Tendency1. Europe is facing what has been called its “greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War”. Global levels of displacement due to war...
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This is a 21st Century EXODUS
can’t share that picture of the drowned toddler on the beach of Fortress Europe. He was the age of my daughter Aoibheann. But things need to change. The boy’s name was Aylan. He was 3, and came from...
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No troubles in Godzone?
by Emir Hodzic, artist and social justice activistBeing in New Zealand now, while the Middle East burns and Europe is overwhelmed with refugees, is like being on the other side of the planet. Well, New...
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THE HIKOI FOR HOMES
The shout of ‘Whose streets? Our streets!’ never sounded better than on yesterday’s Hikoi for Homes from Glenn Innes to Orakei. It was a bleak day but even the vicious rain couldn’t dampen spirits or...
View ArticleThe FIght for Migrant Workers in Auckland- Workers Voice Radio
FIGHTING FOR MIGRANT WORKERS RIGHTS IN AUCKLAND- Listen to Mexican refugee Diego Compa, Anu Kaloti from the Migrant Workers Association of Aotearoa and Sunny Sehgal , organiser for E tū talking about...
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