Tātau, Tātau e: Socialism from Below
The emancipation of the working class must be the work of the working class itself. – Marx and Engels, Strategy and Tactics of the Class Struggle, 1879 The working class is the maker of history. Our fragile society trucks along thanks to the workers in factories, the toilers on the farms, the […]
Get Involved with Student Politics
Student politics are not limited to campus issues such as course costs. Student politics is about fighting for our future: fighting for the environment, our education, our job security, our health and wellbeing. If you care about having cheap food readily available on campus, not having to couch surf while studying because you’re in-between housing, […]
Why We Don’t Need More Cops
This article was originally published in Salient. It has been updated. The New Zealand Government loves cops. They love them so much that they are even inviting cops from other countries to set up shop in Aotearoa, welcoming the FBI to bring their repressive operations to Aotearoa. We will cover the FBI in more detail in […]
J is for Justice
According to states around the world, one of their central purposes is to maintain order and dispense justice among their populations. Socialists understand that the order they maintain is the capitalist order – an order that is anti-democratic, unequal and fundamentally unjust. This is clear in Aotearoa, where the state called New Zealand was built […]
The Politics of Law and Order
The politics of “law and order” in New Zealand finds its natural home in the current pro-business coalition government. It is no accident that a central focus on accumulation is complemented by a “tough on crime” approach: there has to be some way of managing the fallout, the communities abandoned by austerity, those who don’t […]
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 […]
H is for Home
The ABCs of Socialism is a series of short articles on key socialist concepts. Women are grossly exploited under capitalism. Central to this is the burden of the double shift – the shift at work in which women are paid their wages, and the unpaid domestic work and childcare that women and other marginalised groups […]
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 United States of America – On the Road to Fascism?
The ISO has not yet adopted a position on whether the USA can be labelled fascist. This personal contribution, written on 11 April 2025, sets out an argument that the USA has not crossed that threshold, but that the conditions for its emergence are in place. In recent years, I’ve been skeptical of claims that […]
A Socialist Response to USA Fascism
The ISO has not yet adopted a position on whether the USA can be labelled fascist. This personal contribution sets out an argument that the USA has crossed that threshold. This article was first given as a short introductory talk at ISO Whanganui-a-Tara branch meeting, a recording of which is on our YouTube channel. What’s […]
