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  • Responses to “why have women left the Occupy movement?”

    Our article in last month’s issue (also available online here) looking at why women have left the Occupy movement elicited several responses. They are printed here to continue this important discussion. As part of our Socialism 2012 conference, the Workers Party will be holding a session on “safer spaces in the left,” concerning how to

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  • Thousands say: “John Key, you’ve got mail, Aotearoa is not for sale”

    Ian Anderson The Aotearoa is Not For Sale hikoi departed from Cape Reinga on April the 23rd and reached parliament on May the 4th. This march demonstrated that tangata whenua are at the forefront of struggle against privatisation, expressed widespread opposition to asset sales, and raised questions of how to move forward. Broad kaupapa The

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  • Occupy New Zealand: where are they now?

    On March 25th the last tent came down at Occupy Christchurch, the only remaining Occupy protest in the country. It would be a mistake to think that the end of these camps means the end of the movement in New Zealand. The Spark went to find out what the movement is up to now its

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  • May 4th 2012: hikoi reaches parliament

      Analysis to come.

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  • Socialism 2012 (Wellington conference)

    Socialism 2012: a weekend of radical ideas and discussion June 1st-3rd (Queen’s Birthday Weekend) Newtown Community Centre, Wellington Schedule below:

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  • MUNZ delegate: “Class war on the waterfront”

    This article was written for The Spark by Michael Will who is a waterside worker and delegate for the Maritime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ). The Unions of this country are being attacked at the moment, our freedom and rights as workers and human beings are being eroded by attacks by employers and the government.

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  • May issue of The Spark online

    As we go to press the ‘Aotearoa is not Sale’ Hikoi has left Auckland and will reach parliament on May 4. Two days later, thousands are expected to turn out at a Christchurch protest calling for mid-term elections and the resignation of the City Council CEO. These events follow after demonstrations against state housing demolition

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  • The story of May Day

    In this article originally published by the Socialist Workers Party (USA) Elizabeth Schulte tells the history of May Day, a socialist holiday founded to honor the Haymarket Martyrs and celebrate international workers’ solidarity. “THERE WILL be a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.” Those were the last

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  • Wellington event: VUW Not For Sale

    The Aotearoa Not for Sale hikoi is arriving in Wellington on May 4th and we’re going to meet up on campus and after a few speeches, march down as VUW students to join with the hikoi as a whole. BRING POTS AND PANS/NOISEMAKERS. 11:30am May 4th, Hunter Courtyard

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  • Photos: Hikoi and meatworkers solidarity

    The hikoi is showing that tangata whenua are in the forefront of the struggle against asset sales and privatisation. One aspect of the hikoi is the unity between the locked-out meatworkers (employed by Talleys-AFFCO) and others who are opposed to asset-sales and privatisation. This was apparent in the north, where workers employed at the Moerewa

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