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Continuation of our discussion about communist organisation (On The Party Question and Demoralisation or Disorientation?) Only he [sic] who can keep his heart strong and his will as sharp as a sword when the general disillusionment is at its worst can be regarded as a fighter for the working class or called a revolutionary. Gramsci, Avanti, Piedmont
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By editors of The Spark In late October 2011 over one hundred workers belonging to the New Zealand Meat Workers Union and employed at the ANZCO-owned CMP mutton processing plant in Marton, in the Manawatu area, were locked out by the company. The company was demanding that the workers take between 20%-30% losses of renumeration.
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Nada Tawfeek is an Egyptian born activist currently residing in New Zealand. She wrote this first-hand account for The Spark after spending two months in Egypt; it again does not necessarily reflect a “party line.” As the plane I was on approached Cairo, and I could finally see the pyramids after a good 24 hours
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This is part of an ongoing discussion among Workers Party comrades and doesn’t necessarily reflect an agreed position. “Of course, even among the workers who had at one time risen to the first ranks, there are not a few tired and disillusioned ones. They will remain, at least for the next period as bystanders. When
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“MANA supports wholeheartedly the rights of the wharfies who work for the Port of Auckland,” states MANA leader Hone Harawira. Harawira says “Workers across the country need to wake up and smell the coffee – if the wharfies lose this fight then the casualisation of working hours will become a permanent feature of employment in
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Kassie Hartendorp, Workers Party member and Queer Avenger. At the end of 2011, an advertisement for Libra tampons was pulled from air after members from the queer community called out the company for its transphobia. Many argued that the company was sending a strong message to those who did not identify as the gender they
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Public meeting: How can we support the Auckland port workers? Tonight 7:30pm Trades Hall, 147 Great North Rd, Grey Lynn, Auckland
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Greta de Graves The question of how to relate to sex workers (in this article, I will use the term ‘sex worker’ to refer to workers in commercialised sexual encounters, including, but not limited to prostitutes, strippers, go-go dancers, and pornographic actors of all genders) has been a topic of contention for many Marxist and
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