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 […]
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 […]
Vijay Prashad, Campism, and Anti-Colonial Struggle
Vijay Prashad has been an important intellectual in the Global South. His reporting has challenged mainstream narratives. But the Marxist intellectual who had written some of the most important works on the Global South in recent times – such as The Darker Nations, No Free Left, Washington Bullets and Untouchable Freedom – has rebranded himself […]
New Zealand Imperialism in the Pacific in the 21st Century
A public talk based on this article is available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiDVbWafgPg “The Pacific is our family, and being here is a great opportunity to reaffirm New Zealand’s position as a close and trusted partner.” Visiting Niue in June 2024, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon trotted out this familiar official story about the New Zealand government’s […]
