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 […]
“Where Are My Lesbians?!” Socialists Review Pride (2014)
This public screening was held as a fundraiser for Wellington Pride Festival. WPF will be running a series of events and fundraisers over the coming few months; the next film is The Birdcage (1996) on Friday 10th October. Keep an eye on their website for details! SLIGHT SPOILER WARNING!!! Pride (2014) opens with the trade […]
Tātau, Tātau e: Socialism from Below
The emancipation of the working class must be the work of the working class itself. – Marx and Engels, Strategy and Tactics of the Class Struggle, 1879 The working class is the maker of history. Our fragile society trucks along thanks to the workers in factories, the toilers on the farms, the […]
Get Involved with Student Politics
Student politics are not limited to campus issues such as course costs. Student politics is about fighting for our future: fighting for the environment, our education, our job security, our health and wellbeing. If you care about having cheap food readily available on campus, not having to couch surf while studying because you’re in-between housing, […]
New Zealand’s Local Elections: What’s At Stake?
Local government “Local government” is the term used for elected officials and non-elected bureaucratic structures that oversee geographic subparts of New Zealand. The Local Government Act 2002 describes the purpose of local government as twofold: to enable democratic local decision-making and action by, and on behalf of, communities; and to promote the social, economic, environmental, […]
Free Palestine! The Protest Movement in Aotearoa
It has been nearly two years since 7 October 2023, and the subsequent genocidal onslaught against Palestinians; two years of mass murder being broadcast around the world. The majority of people can see what’s going on and are outraged, not only by the actions of Israel, but by the inaction of our own “representatives”. Despite […]
Why We Don’t Need More Cops
This article was originally published in Salient. It has been updated. The New Zealand Government loves cops. They love them so much that they are even inviting cops from other countries to set up shop in Aotearoa, welcoming the FBI to bring their repressive operations to Aotearoa. We will cover the FBI in more detail in […]
J is for Justice
According to states around the world, one of their central purposes is to maintain order and dispense justice among their populations. Socialists understand that the order they maintain is the capitalist order – an order that is anti-democratic, unequal and fundamentally unjust. This is clear in Aotearoa, where the state called New Zealand was built […]
