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– Workers Party Media Release Workers Party Christchurch East candidate Paul Hopkinson is the first school teacher to face penalties for challenging the undemocratic provisions of the 1993 Electoral Act. Under the current law most public servants (including teachers) must take unpaid leave for the three weeks between nomination and polling days. Hopkinson has refused
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– Workers Party Media Release ” Wellington bus drivers have been treated like shit” says Wellington Central Workers Party candidate Don Franks. “Its a rotten system where hard working folks can be legally locked out for refusing poverty wages.” “As I said to these drivers at the depot first thing this morning their cause is
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Much has been made by the corporate media and Western governments over the threat supposedly represented by Iran’s civilian nuclear program (despite the CIA themselves admitting that there is no evidence at all the Iranian government is developing nuclear weapons). Many ostensibly “progressive” people (including our own Labour government) have backed UN sanctions against the
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– WP Media Release Workers Party candidate for Christchurch East, Paul Hopkinson, may be forced to step aside as a candidate due to a discriminatory clause in the 1993 Electoral Act. Because Paul Hopkinson is a school teacher in a state school, he is subject to a clause which could require him to take unpaid
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The Workers Party recently received an enquiry from a high school student trying to get in touch with the New Zealand Communist Party. The year 9 student wanted to ask a few questions “concerning a project on whether democracy is the best type of government.” Philip Ferguson replied: We’re actually the Workers Party, not the
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Winston Peters, leader of the xenophobic New Zealand First party – and, ironically, the Foreign Minister as well – has been caught accepting secret donations from various rich businessmen, in particular Owen Glenn, a New Zealand millionaire based in the tax haven microstate, Monaco. Peters has been slithering around the issue, first denying it, then
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– Nick Kelly In February 2007, management at Go Wellington introduced a new shift structure designed to reduce all bus drivers to 8-hour working days, to limit drivers’ access to overtime. At the same time, a document described by drivers as a “scab flat-rate contract” was introduced to weaken the Tramways Union at the Wellington
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– Tim Bowron Orginally published at Socialist Democracy. The situation in most of Latin America in 1968 was vastly different to that in Europe, the United States and South East Asia. Throughout most of the continent the revolutionary dynamic seemed to be running in reverse – since the 1959 Cuban Revolution the left seemed to
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Torab Saleth, a leading activist in the Iranian Workers Left Unity current and a prominent figure in the British-based Hands Off the People of Iran (HOPI) campaign, was recently interviewed by Philip Ferguson of the Workers Party. Philip Ferguson: Could you tell us a bit about Workers Left Unity – how it came into existence
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– Don Franks Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Labour’s Goods and Services tax, Listener columnist David W Young wrote: ” The reason GST is much-loved by right-of-centre policy wonks in New Zealand and marvelled at by their colleagues overseas, is that it’s “pure”. (Finally, a tax that right-wingers like!) GST wasn’t adulterated to make it
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