Wednesday September 22, 1pm
Waikato University, Student Union Building, @ Guru Fabians room

• Public meeting organised by Hamilton Left Initiative in response to new round of government attacks on working people.

• Come along, support or help build student involvement in upcoming union/workers actions.

• Speakers representing Greens on Campus, Unite on Campus, Workers Party on Campus, and Unions Waikato.

• Literature, discussion, action-making, debate, socialising, building, democratising.

For further details/enquiries email jared@unite.org.nz or phone on 029-4949-863

All welcome! Please forward to all relevant networks/individuals/lists.

Reviewed by Mike Kay

One of New Zealand’s leading contemporary historians, Judith Binney, has written a major study on the story of how the people of the Urewera came to be parted from their lands. This book deserves to be widely read. However, at over 600 pages long, it is unlikely to reach the audience that it merits. Therefore, I will attempt to summarise the narrative in this review, and then analyse it from a Marxist perspective.

Hapū of the Urewera take their name from Tuhoe-potiki, who was descended from the immigrant Toroa, leader of the Mataatua waka, and also the indigenous ancestors Toi and Potiki I. [Read more…]

By Ray Nunes
Published April 1999

The great unknown past of the Maori people,together with a view of Maori nationalism today
A pro-Mao, Marxist Leninist analysis

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Introduction

by Daphna Whitmore

The following pamphlet by Ray Nunes is based on a reply to a former member of the now-defunct Communist Party of New Zealand (in which Ray Nunes earlier played a leading role) and whose letter contained criticisms of the standpoint of the Workers’ Party of New Zealand as published in the party’s monthly journal, The Spark of April 1994. At that time the Workers Party was a pro-Mao organisation.

In 2002 the Workers Party merged with Revolution Group and now identifies as a Marxist Party whose members hold a range of views about the role of  Stalin, Mao and Trotsky. [Read more…]