Students Against Cuts – Statement of Support
A statement from the Victoria University International Socialist Club, the VUW club of the International Socialist Organisation. This week the Victoria University International Socialist Club has come together with other student groups to help launch the campaign group Students Against Staff Cuts (SAC). The Labour government needs to fund universities adequately. These institutions are not […]
Fight for the Right to Strike: Nurses Win Against Labour
Te Whatu Ora, under Minister of Health Dr Ayesha Verrall, failed in its bid to get an Employment Court decision that an impending strike by NZNO nurses would be unlawful. The Court’s rejection of the Ministry’s application for an injunction enabled a lawful strike to go ahead on 24 May. Nurses and health care assistants […]
Secondary Education in Crisis
The reality of teaching in 2023 The secondary education sector is on its knees. There is a crisis in the profession and it all stems from wages and conditions. Just ask yourself if you have said this to a teacher friend, “I don’t know how you do it, I wouldn’t want to do your job.” […]
Protect Otago – Save Our University!
Protect Otago – Save Our University Brian S. Roper is an Associate Professor and former Head of the Politics Programme from the University of Otago. He is working on a book entitled – Neoliberalism’s War on New Zealand’s Universities – to be published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2024. Here he responds to four key questions […]
Abortion Rights Under Attack
The defeat of Roe. v Wade in the US has had widespread ramifications. One of these has been the energising of the anti-abortion movement globally, and New Zealand is no exception. There was at least one small rally of anti-abortion activists in Wellington in March 2023, who gathered on Parliament Lawn to voice their opposition […]
Inflation Crisis: This is Class War
Living standards are being driven down by cost of living increases, sub-inflation pay rates and declining public services, notably health services. All this is being done in the name of tackling Aotearoa’s inflation crisis. At no point in this period of high inflation since the second half of 2021 can it said that pay has […]
Public Political Education Day
Tēnā koutou katoa! The International Socialist Organisation of Aotearoa is pleased to invite you to a political education and discussion day as part of our annual organisation-wide hui. The day will consist of a series of formal talks or presentations, followed by chaired discussions between all attendees. There will be a short break between each […]
A Left Critique of Three Waters after Labour’s Change of Plan
On 13 April 2023 the Minister for Local Government, Kieran McAnulty, announced changes to the “water services reforms.” The main change is that instead of four water service entities running the country’s water services there will be ten. The timetable for the entities taking over from local councils has been pushed back from July 2024 […]
University of Otago: Fight For Every Job
Senior managers at the University of Otago want to slash hundreds of jobs. They want to cut $60 million from their annual budget and today announced voluntary redundancies with plans for more job losses to come. This is not a done deal. It should be opposed. We face difficult days ahead. But the old union […]
Fight for Trans Rights Advancing the Working Class
On Saturday 11th of February 2023, three members of the International Socialist Organisation Te Whanagnui-a-Tara branch attended a rally for trans rights, focused on healthcare demands. The rally organiser, addressing a crowd of about 500 people, spoke passionately about her experiences as a young trans woman in Aotearoa and about how she had been forced […]
