US: Hands Off Venezuela!
The following statement was released on the evening of 3 January 2026, in the moments between Maduro’s abduction and the Trump administration’s declaration of responsibility for the attack. It is published here, with a few updates, for the record. Early reports indicate that the bombing of Venezuela’s capital city, Caracas, is the doing of the […]
Protesting the Ōtautahi Aerospace Conference
To quote from the 2025 Aerospace Summit website, New Zealand is a “global space leader”. Our low population density and open skies make us the perfect arena, in logistical terms, for testing and launching aerospace technology into the world’s shared skies. Rocket Lab, a New Zealand-based company, has been receiving USA military contracts since 2009, […]
The Lost Decade of Revolutions
The following is a lightly edited version of a public talk given to the Tāmaki Makaurau branch in March 2025. If you are attending a meeting of the International Socialist Organisation then we are going to start with the assumption that you want to change the world for the better: that you are at least […]
Global Economics
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/JQJFCpdEnW8 Global Overview The already meagre projections of recovery announced by major capitalist institutions last year fell even further after the rollouts of USA president Donald Trump’s tariffs regime. Throughout the period of […]
I is for Imperialism
War and profit go hand-in-hand. This relationship goes deeper than direct war profiteering, and deeper even than the scramble for resources like oil. Imperialism grows out of the workings of capitalism itself, and is an integral part of the capitalist system. Imperialism is driven by three key workings of capitalism: competition, monopoly, and the relationship […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
