The Health Crisis, Privatisation Threat and Resistance
Everyone knows that we are in a health funding crisis. We know it because we experience it. Everyone has their horror stories of waiting, waiting, and waiting: for doctor’s appointments, for specialist referrals, for medical procedures. If it was bad under the last Labour government, it is even worse under Christopher Luxon. A key policy […]
Tesla Takedown in Pōneke
On the morning of Wednesday 9th April 2025, a modest crowd of around 30 people gathered in an industrial zone on the outskirts of Pōneke Wellington. On a footpath outside a Tesla showroom, the crowd held a ‘Tesla Takedown’ rally, one of many such-named protests happening globally. The rally, called by the Pōneke Anti-Fascist Coalition […]
People Power Trumps the Government
Confronted today with dismal Right Wing governments at home and overseas, it’s easy to feel powerless. But mass popular movements can beat back governments – especially when these are backed up by active support from workers and unions. In fact, we’ve beaten the government in Aotearoa many times before. Sometimes we scored quick victories. Other […]
Solidarity with Rotokākahi
Full solidarity with the land protectors of Rotokākahi! The International Socialist Organisation of Aotearoa expresses its unconditional solidarity with the mana whenua of Tūhourangi and Ngati Tūmatawera as they oppose the construction of a sewage pipe through this tapu burial site. While local whānau, hapū and iwi are connected to the wai and whenua through […]
Defying Destiny – A Reflection
Background: On Sunday 23 February 2025, between 1200 and 2000 LGBTQ+ allies assembled in Albert Park in defiance of Destiny Church. The week prior, one of Destiny Church’s front groups, Man Up, had stormed and terrorised a Drag King’s storytime event in the Te Atatu Peninsula library, where one person was concussed and terrified children […]
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 […]
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, […]
