New Zealand’s Place in a Changing World Order of Imperialism
President Donald Trump took office, for the second time, on 20 January 2025. He has proceeded to rip up the certainties of the Western alliance that has held together since the end of the Second World War. He has threatened to annex Greenland and the Panama Canal. He is waging a trade war against all-comers, […]
Confronting the Global Far Right
The following was presented as a talk at the 2025 International Socialist Organisation hui-ā-tau annual conference. A recorded version is available here: https://youtu.be/bN40VEYvsOk Introduction Right now, in the middle of 2025, you’d be forgiven for feeling like the world has gone full-circle back to the 1930s. In a depressed global economy, fascists everywhere seem to […]
Hands Off Iran!
Following failed attempts to convince Palestinians to turn on Hamas by arming opportunist gangs in Gaza and inflating Gaza’s anti-leadership sentiment (and finding no shortage of support in Western media outlets, backed by political cowards who equate the roles of Israel and Hamas), the state of Israel is now trying to do the same in […]
First they Came for the Migrants – Repression of Political Dissent in the US
In 2024 Donald Trump was elected to his second term as president of the United States of America. Mass deportations and incarcerations have characterised this term, alongside continued and intensified support for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians; tariffs and trade wars waged against the rest of the world; attacks on transgender rights and the rights of […]
Care Workers Successfully Rally for Employment Conditions
On the 8th June 2025 around 80 unionists of the Public Service Association (PSA), flanked by other supporters such as the E tū union and the Migrant Worker’s Association, descended upon the offices of Te Roopu Taurima, a kaupapa Māori residential and respite disability support provider. This was in response to what was described by […]
H is for Home
The ABCs of Socialism is a series of short articles on key socialist concepts. Women are grossly exploited under capitalism. Central to this is the burden of the double shift – the shift at work in which women are paid their wages, and the unpaid domestic work and childcare that women and other marginalised groups […]
Attacks on Pay Equity to Fund Tax Cuts for the Rich – This is Class War
Two days ago, the ruling right-wing coalition government rammed through legislation under urgency to extinguish all ongoing claims for pay equity (the mechanism by which historically undervalued feminised work can be paid equivalent to historically masculine work), and made it more difficult for future claims to be successful. Presumably, the violently undemocratic urgency mechanism was […]
Ōtepoti for Transgender Liberation – Turn the Culture War into Class War
On May 3rd, 2025, LGBT+ activists and allies from around Ōtepoti gathered in the Octagon in a demonstration of solidarity with their trans whānau, who have become an increasing focal point of mainstream media and the global right-wing sphere. The rally represented opposition to New Zealand First’s recently proposed Members’ Bill, which aims to legally […]
Reflections and Questions on the Denniston Plateau Occupation
Over the Easter Weekend a group of activists set out to the Denniston plateau to protest mining company Bathurst Resources’, “Buller Plateaux Continuation Project.” The proposal sets out to “extend the life of the Stockton mine”, by expanding further South in attempts “to mine 20 million tonnes of coking coal for export from the Buller […]
Reject ANZAC Day – Speech at the 2025 Peace Picnic
On 25 April ISO member Jasper Auld gave this speech at the 2025 Peace Picnic – organised by Pōneke Anti-Fascist Coalition. Kia ora, I’m Jasper from the International Socialists. I’d like to talk about what ANZAC Day currently serves as: A day for our colonial state to hide its atrocities in emotional propaganda and outright […]
