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Don Franks Police officers are being stationed inside ten South Auckland schools. From March, five officers will each spend 30 hours a week in the secondary schools, and another five staff will join them later. Manukau City Councilor Daniel Newman says the aim is to cut crime outside of school, to draw children away from…
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Editorial from this month’s issue of The Spark: Labour’s biggest donor, billionaire Owen Glenn, recently embarrassed Prime Minister Helen Clark by skiting that she wanted him in cabinet, and by angling for a diplomatic post in Monaco. Then, more strife came when Labour “forgot” to mention a $100,000 interest-free loan that Glen had given Labour…
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Auckland Workers Party forum Tuesday 4 March 6pm VENUE Upstairs meeting room, Trades Hall, 147 Great North Rd Auckland This year is the 100th anniversary of International Working Women’s Day. Daphna Whitmore examines the origins of women’s oppression and looks at the current status of women in New Zealand as well as the present state…
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This month’s Christchurch Workers Forum is on the Electoral Finance Act and the 2008 elections. Come along and hear and discuss: ● why the EFA is not in the interests of workers and open political debate ● the similarities between the policies of National and Labour ● what we can do to build an alternative…
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Marxism 2008: May 30-June 1, Auckland City, New Zealand (Schedule and venue to be announced) From May 30 to June 1, the Workers Party of New Zealand will be holding its 6th annual educational conference, Marxism 2008, in Auckland. The conference will be particularly important this year because, for the first time, the Workers Party…
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A Symphony of Errors A film about the recent land struggle of Ngati Rohoto Hapu Tuesday 19th February 6pm upstairs @ Auckland Trades Hall, 147 Great Nth Road This film documents the militant land occupation and struggle of the Ngati Rohoto Hapu against the development of a gated community on top of a historic urupa…
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Tim Bowron (first published on Socialist Democracy blog) Having suffered a narrow defeat in the constitutional referendum held last December, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez has signalled that plans to accelerate his Bolivarian socialist project will have to be placed temporarily on hold.
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Alastair Reith In the recent Australian General Elections, the eleven year reign of John Howard and his Liberal-National Coalition government was ended with a victory for the Labor Party and its leader Kevin Rudd. The elections saw a significant voter shift towards Labor, with Howard even losing his own seat in the election to Labor…
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Joel Cosgrove No one should be crowing about the way in which Benazir Bhutto, the former Prime Minister and leader of the Pakistan Peoples’ Party, died – killed by an assassin’s bullet at the end of a political meeting in Rawalpindi on December 27. Yet the obituaries that quickly flowed across the Western world following…
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Don Franks In December 2007 the Workers Party produced a Spark insert, Bus drivers stand up to the boss. It described how Management of Go Wellington imposed shift changes in 2007 that resulted in driver salary reductions of up to $20,000 a year. At the same time, the company introduced an alternative collective to the…
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