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– Daphna Whitmore Condoleezza Rice just called in to say thank you. Thanks for the “long history of partnership”. Thanks for New Zealand’s military participation in wars in Korea, the Pacific and more recently in Afghanistan. Hang on a minute, isn’t Helen Clark supposed to be a peacenik camouflaged in a power suit?
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7pm, Monday, July 28 WEA, 59 Gloucester St Meet local WP candidates Byron Clark (Christchurch Central) and Paul Hopkinson (Christchurch East). Food, drinks and revolutionary politics.
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– Workers Party Press Release As the recession bites, workers are again carrying the heaviest burden. The layoffs just announced at Silver Fern Farms’ Belfast plant are another sign that the current parties have nothing left to offer workers. The Workers Party thinks jobs for all should come before profits for private companies and supports
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is visiting Auckland from Friday 25 July to Sunday 27 July. She is the public face of US imperialism. She is meeting Helen Clark and Winston Peters at Government House on Saturday 26th July. Protest March to government house Meet at the corner of Carlton Gore Road and Park
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Click here to view the text of a study pamphlet produced by the Workers Party of New Zealand, dealing with a wide range of questions ranging from how we choose our political priorities to intervention in bourgeois elections, voting for Labour, free buses and more.
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– Don Franks (wsws.org commentary on the economy: “spokesmen for the ruling elite have been quick to demand workers tighten their belts and lower their wage demands, despite the steep increase in the cost of living. Reserve Bank Governor Bollard first issued the call in early June, bluntly saying that any “over-exuberance” when it came
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The article below originally appeared in revolution magazine, #21, August-October 2003: Samoan protests for the return of their NZ citizenship point up the need for a campaign for open borders and workers’ solidarity as against Labour’s denial of Samoan (and other migrants’) rights, argues Philip Ferguson. In late March, thousands of Samoans protested in Wellington,
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Tonight we are having a social event to talk about Don Franks’ Wellington Central campaign as well as the Workers’ Party’s nationwide campaign. It should be pretty laid back, and if you’re interested in coming (there is free beer and pizza), we’ll be in the Collins Room 5:30-7ish, Student Union Building, Vic Uni, Kelburn. All
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– John Edmundson In the years following the September 11 2001 attacks, the world has seen a massive tightening of immigration controls. In this country, many New Zealanders’ first experience of this trend was the overnight quadrupling of the cost of maintaining a passport. In one fell swoop, the life of a passport was halved,
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– Alastair Reith On June 25th, a white jury in Tauranga found Police Sergeant Keith Parsons, Senior Constable Bruce Laing, Constable John Mills and Sergeant Erle Busby not guilty of brutally assaulting Rawiri Falwasser, a young Maori, in October 2006. With police like these, who needs criminals? Rewi Falwasser suffered a mental breakdown on Labour
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