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The following speech was given by Workers Party candidate for Wellington Central Don Franks at a protest organised by the Newtown Residents’ Coalition against the rising cost of living on May 2: Folks, we’re here tonight to commemorate Mayday, International Workers Day. This day has been marked internationally since May 1st 1886, when there were…
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FRIDAY evening 30 May 7pm Bullets and ballots: Babu Maharjan from Nepal gives a first-hand account of the mass movement for change. 8pm Vote socialist 2008: The Workers Party launches its election campaign with a view to being on ballot papers in every home. SATURDAY 31 May 10am Revolution and Resistance: panel discussion Dennis Maga…
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– Mike Kay On May 1st 1968, Paris erupted. There had been a few big strikes in the years leading up to it, but by and large the upsurge took all by surprise. It was the tenth anniversary of the day General De Gaulle had seized presidential power in France by an unresisted military coup.…
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Press Release “Claims by Prime Minister Helen Clark that yesterday’s action by peace activists at the Waihopai Spy Base near Blenheim was nothing more than ‘a senseless act of vandalism’ show how totally out of touch the Labour government is with reality,” according to Workers Party national organiser Daphna Whitmore. “Instead of complaining about the…
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– John Edmundson The New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed on April 7 is the first free trade agreement China has made with any developed Western country. It is an historic deal for the Chinese government in its push to be fully accepted into the capitalist club. The deal is historic for New Zealand…
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Dear Spark readers and Workers Party supporters, In the last two years the Workers Party has participated in and supported many campaigns, most notably: * Against racist detention of Iranian migrants at Mt. Eden prison (taking arrests and legal costs) * Stop The Killings (in the Philippines) campaign * Hotel workers unionisation campaign * Restaurant…
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Main points 1. The previous allocations of broadcasting monies was designed when there were two parties who were keen to make sure that other new parties could not compete effectively with them. A cartel has previously operated in dividing up the broadcast allocation amongst the parliamentary parties. This has previously given only a few crumbs…
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Press release The Workers Party wants public election funds shared equally between parties. “Other countries such as Japan, Italy, India, Mexico and the Czech Republic have equal fund allocations”, said the party’s national organiser Daphna Whitmore, in a submission to the Electoral Commission. “It’s currently a cartel-like arrangement where Labour and National get the bulk…
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– Alastair Reith Leader of the Zimbabwean opposition Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai On 29 March 2008, the people of Zimbabwe went to the polls to vote in the parliamentary and presidential elections, and on the future of their impoverished country. There was world-wide interest in the elections and a great deal of media…
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– Jared Phillips The Council of Trade Unions and various individual unions have put out statements regarding the April 1 2008 minimum wage rise to $12 and the abolition of youth rates for most young workers. CTU secretary Carol Beaumont said: Twelve dollars an hour is a commitment that this Labour-led government made with the…
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