The National Party convincingly won the general election on November 8th attracting 45.45% of the party vote giving them 18 list seats as well as winning 41 constituencies: 4 short of a majority in the House of Representatives. Therefore National will be able to form a government under the MMP system with the right wing […]
Read MoreThe "Manifesto of the International Marxist Tendency" explains the unfolding global crises of capitalism, as well as a socialist perspective and programme for workers to achieve socialism. This should be read in conjunction with recent economic and perspective articles on the Socialist Appeal NZ website.
Read MoreThe events of the melt down on the world stock markets and the ensuing economic crises have overtaken the general election in New Zealand. At present opinion polls vary enormously from giving National a 3% lead over Labour to 18% respectfully. Quite clearly volatility is building up within society.
Read MorePrime Minister Helen Clark has called the general election for November 8thhoping to win a fourth term . The general election date was of no real surprise as it was the much predicted date being the penultimate date with which the government could go to the country . The problem for the Labour Party is […]
Read MoreStatistics New Zealand (SNZ) confirmed what most of us have known for sometime that indeed we are at the beginning of a recession.
Read MoreThe Labour led government is to re-nationalise the railways after reaching an agreement to purchase Australian owned Toll Holdings rail and ferry operating business for $665 million, thus completing the wholesale re-nationalisation of all aspects of the rail and ferry network.
Read MorePrivatisation, the embrace of the free market and the New Right idealogy in New Zealand. These were the policies of sucessive New Zealand governments during the 1980's and 1990's. First under Labour's "Rogernomics", and later continued under National. Telecom was one of many of New Zealand's important assets which were privatised in this era and […]
Read MoreThis article was originally written on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the 1929 Wall Street Crash. It was not intended purely as a commemorative or historical piece. It was written because, to Marxists, all the signs were then apparent that another stock price ‘correction’ was in preparation. In 1998 Long Term Capital Management […]
Read MoreFinance Minister Michael Cullen announcement that the Labour coalition government was immediately tightening the country's overseas investment rules with regard to stopping strategic assets falling into foreign ownership was an initial setback to the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) in its attempt to take over Auckland Airport: the country's international gateway.
Read MoreA damning 450 page government endorsed report released about the state of the environment in New Zealand, unveils shocking details about environmental degradation. It fully exposed the farce of "100% Pure" New Zealand, which this country has been trying to present to the world. The report mentions that a fifth of all ground water is […]
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