New Zealand

Hands off Ihumātao! No luxury homes for the elites!

Details: Published: Sunday, 08 September 2019 00:50; Written by Miles Lacey

Ihumātao is a place that most people had not heard of until recently due to the escalation in protests on this land. At present there are approximately 1,500 people on the site, which has been cordoned off by the police.

Why is this protest being undertaken?

Mega-strike in New Zealand as 50,000 teachers walk out

Details: Published: Thursday, 06 June 2019 22:47; Written by Miles Lacey

Strike action was taken by over 50,000 teachers throughout New Zealand on 29 May to demand a 16 percent pay increase and improved working conditions. Their strike is the result of a breakdown in pay talks between the New Zealand Educational Institute, the Post-Primary Teachers Association; and the government Ministry of Education.

Labour led coalition must break with big business

Details: Published: Thursday, 25 April 2019 02:55; Written by Editorial Board

(Article reprinted from Socialist Appeal newspaper Autumn 2019. To buy a copy send us an email for further details)

With the Labour Party riding high in the polls at approximately 45%, and the National Party leadership in meltdown and beginning to fall in the polls, Labour voters have (quite rightly) high expectations of the Labour Party to deliver. Jacinda Ardern has said that the second year of the Labour-led coalition government will be about delivery and made vague platitudes about this in the media.

Auckland Rail Maintenance Workers Locked Out. Support RMTU 13% Pay Rise Claim

Details: Published: Thursday, 06 June 2019 22:14; Written by Rufus Tyler

The maintenance workers responsible for safety checks on Auckland Transport passenger trains have been locked out for thirty days, from the 13 May, following industrial action. The dispute came about because of the difference in pay between the workers - contracted by spanish multinational CAF (Construcciones y Auxiliares de Ferrocarriles) - and Kiwirail workers. The technicians receive about $7000pa less than Kiwirail workers doing the same job.

Christchurch massacre – far-right terrorism and the growing barbarism of capitalist society

Details: Published: Sunday, 24 March 2019 01:15; Written by Fred Weston

The barbaric attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand by a far-right fascist terrorist – indiscriminately shooting men, women and children, killing 50 and injuring many more, live streaming his bloody actions as he carried them out – comes at a time of deepening economic crisis and heightened social and political tensions around the world. All decent human beings are rightly condemning the attack, but we have to ask ourselves: why are such acts of terrorism taking place, and what can be done to end this barbarism?

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