The Lost Decade of Revolutions
The following is a lightly edited version of a public talk given to the Tāmaki Makaurau branch in March 2025. If you are attending a meeting of the International Socialist Organisation then we are going to start with the assumption that you want to change the world for the better: that you are at least […]
What’s the deal with “Crisis Pregnancy Centres”?
ISO writer Romany Tasker-Poland talks to ALRANZ co-President Alma de Anda about the misleading anti-abortion organisations springing up around the country. Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand was founded in 1973 to advocate for the decriminalisation of abortion. Since this goal was achieved in 2020, ALRANZ has continued to act as a watch-dog, advocating […]
Protect the Right to Protest
The demonstration is one of the most tried-and-true tools in the collective political toolbox. A well-placed, well-timed protest can do anything from disrupting industry, to undermining a country’s political leader, to shifting entire political landscapes. Even if those political goals aren’t met, the collective demonstration has a more immediate purpose: turning political subjects into political […]
The Revival of the Radical Left and Working-Class Politics
The below is a reprint from redflag.com.au Most of us have lived most of our lives under a one-sided class war. The billionaires have built fortunes while the poor have been screwed. Governments the world over have bent over backwards to facilitate this. The result has been a world in which the rich stomp over […]
Public Sector Strikes: Fighting Against Privatisation
Primary school teachers, secondary school teachers, nurses, and firefighters are all fighting for livable employment conditions and sufficient resources to do their work effectively. These are all workers employed in the “public sector”, providing services to the general public. This article will consider the value of this “sector” of New Zealand society, put forward an […]
Defend free speech! No to fascists! Reinstate Professor Tom Alter Now!
Free Speech in universities is under attack in Trump’s America, as exemplified by the summary sacking of Tom Alter by Texas State University on 10 September. Below we reproduce a statement by Socialist Horizon, the group Tom Alter is a member of. Since this statement was made the fight for Tom’s rights has proceeded. A […]
Open Letter to the Working People of Aotearoa
To the patients, students and whānau of those affected by the government’s dismantling of public services, We condemn the suffering that has been inflicted on you by systematic neglect of the public services that you need. From patients dying in waiting rooms, to fire trucks breaking down on the way to emergencies, to children left […]
Gaslighting and Grinding Down: the Government’s Strategy Against Striking Workers
Nurses supporting teachers out on strike. Photo credit: kaitiaki.org.nz The coalition of chaos has, under urgency, passed legislation and prescribed policy that has brutalised the public service. There have been outright lies from government ministers intervening into the negotiations by releasing public statements, and within the negotiations, we have a government that refuses to talk […]
K for Kleptocracy
When thinking of political decision making, images of politicians debating in the halls of parliament may come to mind. We’re taught by our schools, the media, and politicians themselves that the Beehive is where the important changes to our society are made. Sceptical of the world’s political leaders, there are some who resort to conspiracy […]
From Soviets to the USSR
A Soviet assembly in 1917. Petrograd The Soviets, workers’ councils, first formed in 1905. They emerged after decades of repression and out of the lack of democratic ability afforded to the people. These organisations of the working people replaced officials of the Duma, the legislative body historically appointed through the Tsar. It was the Soviets […]
