The Fight Against Gender Repression
Attacks on trans rights continue to be central to Right Wing politics across the globe, and now threaten to make their way into government legislation. On 20 November 2024 the New Zealand Ministry of Health, tasked by the government, released an evidence brief and position statement calling for “additional safeguards” to be applied to the […]
Big Tech, Media Consolidation, and the New Oligarchy
Let’s face it: on November 5th, 2024, the world entered a new era. With the election of Donald Trump, the tired, zombified face of neoliberalism crumbled as disenfranchised Democratic voters stayed home. In its place has risen something darker: a far right authoritarian populism, funded and endorsed by a handful of the wealthiest individuals to […]
The Parallel Struggle Against Zionism and Anti-Semitism
“Apparently, I’m a Zionist AND a Nazi” quips Elon Musk, implying that this is an absurd contradiction in terms. After all, surely one stands for Jewish safety and the other calls for Jewish genocide? This superficial reasoning rests on a rotten assumption: that Israel is the natural home of all Jews. This assumption is a […]
Deliberately Created Unemployment: Kick Out the Right
At the beginning of the inflation crisis in 2021, and through to its peak in 2022, the official unemployment rate was low: 3.2 to 3.3 percent. Since then, according to the latest figures from Statistics NZ, the unemployment rate has steadily risen and stood at 5.1 percent by the end of 2024. Joblessness is causing […]
The Government’s War on Workers and Welfare
In the 2023 New Zealand general election, the current National, ACT, and New Zealand First coalition government was formed. We are now at the start of 2025, and the working class is suffering. Thousands of public sector workers have been sacked to pay for tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the rich. This class war is […]
The Privatisation Agenda Behind the Dunedin Hospital Betrayal
The Dunedin Hospital is the only tertiary-level hospital for the Lower South Island. It is the nearest tertiary-level hospital for well over 300,000 people and has around 400 beds. The hospital is ancient and no longer fit for purpose, it was constructed with asbestos and it leaks all over. The hospital needs to be replaced. […]
The Student Protest Movement for Palestine
“It has been a little less than a year since I started attending these protests […] At first I marked them out by numbers: the first protest, the second. Then by location: Tauranga, Palmerston North, The Embassy, Parliament. Still more passed and they started becoming milestones: the first time I led the chants, the time […]
Palestine – No Rest Until Liberation
At the time of writing, a ceasefire deal has finally been agreed to between Hamas and the Israeli government. This in and of itself is welcome of course, and frankly the deal is much better for Hamas than it is for Israel. Israeli journalist Yossi Yehoshua asserts “There’s no need to sugarcoat the reality: the […]
The US Election and Capitalism’s Deep Crisis
A busy year for general elections abroad has culminated in the return of Donald J. Trump as president-elect of the United States of America. Just four years after being ousted by Joe Biden and the Democratic Party in a resounding loss, Trump, despite facing a litany of criminal charges, rebounded to defeat vice president Kamala […]
The Mine Ain’t Yours: Primary Industry and the Material Interests in Racial Division
The coalition is racist. Nearly a year on from the fateful 2023 election that saw the two-term Labour government swept away in a tide of reactionary fervour, Te Ao Māori has come under fire. The New Zealand Herald spreading Hobson’s Pledge propaganda, a stringent rewrite of the Marine and Coastal Area Act on the table, […]
