1:30-3pm Sunday June 3rd
Newtown Community and Cultural Centre
Socialism 2012: tino rangatiratanga
May 25, 2012 by
Budget Day, Wellington: don’t lock us out of education
May 23, 2012 by
March against attacks on students, workers and beneficiaries in the May 24th budget.
Meeting 12pm at the Hunter Courtyard, VUW (Wellington) to march on parliament.
Socialism 2012: queer liberation and socialism
May 23, 2012 by
Socialism 2012: conference schedule
May 21, 2012 by
Annual socialist conference in Wellington, 1st-3rd of June at Newtown Community and Cultural Centre (corner Rintoul & Columbo streets.)
Friday
5.30 registration
6 – 8pm: Class struggle today (Aotearoa/NZ)
Mike Kay – Port-workers’ struggle, meat industry lockouts and industrial conditions
Jared Phillips – Neo-liberalism and class composition
Sue Bradford – Unemployed and beneficiary fightback
1 hour discussion
10pm
Fundraising gig: Bodega
Kittentank, Big Rick, Man/Woman
Saturday
9.30am registration
10 – 11am
Revolutionary organising in current conditions: combat propaganda group
Mike Kay
40 minute discussion
11am – 12pm: Safer spaces on the left
Kassie Hartendorp
40 minute discussion
12-1pm
Lunch
1-2.30 pm: Eco-socialism in Australasia
Grant Brookes, Eco-Socialist Network Aotearoa
Ben Peterson, Socialist Alliance (Australia)
Ian Anderson, Workers Party
30 minute discussion
2.30- 3:30pm: Socialist electoral work
Anthony Main, Socialist Party of Australia
40 minute discussion
3:30-4:30pm: The fight against casualisation
Heleyni Pratley – organising casualised workplaces
20 minute discussion
4:30-6pm: Against the capitalist education system
Joel Cosgrove, Workers Party
Jai Bentley-Payne, Auckland student activist
Rowan MacArthur, International Socialist Organisation
30 minute discussion
Sunday
9.30am registration
10-11:30am
The world situation: imperialism
Paul Hopkinson – Imperialism and Palestine
Byron Clark – New Zealand’s imperialist role
30 minute discussion
11:30am-12:30pm
The world situation: Europe and the global financial crisis
Mike Treen
40 minute discussion
12:30-1:30pm lunch
1:30-3pm: Tino rangatiratanga
Scott Hamilton – Pre-capitalist societies and Marxism
Annette Sykes – The politics of the Brown Table
30 minutes discussion
3-4pm: Queer liberation and socialism
James Froch
40 minute discussion
4-6pm: Left perspectives
Derwin Smith, International Socialist Organisation
Rebecca Broad, Workers Party
Ben Peterson, Socialist Alliance (Australia)
Anthony Main, Socialist Party of Australia
1 hour discussion
6pm
Close and thanks
20 Years of the Wellington Peoples’ Centre
May 18, 2012 by
This report on the Wellington Peoples’ Centre, by Ian Anderson, will be published in the June issue of The Spark. Sue Bradford, who helped set up the Peoples’ Centres, will be speaking on unemployed and beneficiary fightback at our Socialism 2012 conference.
After 20 years of support for unemployed and low-income workers, the Wellington Peoples’ Centre (WPC) closed its doors on the 28th of April 2012. However most services continue to operate independently, and by decision of the membership the WPC remains as a legal entity.
Background: by the people, for the people
Peoples’ Centres first formed in the early ’90s, out of the radical unemployed workers’ movement. In an interview for the April Spark Sue Bradford explained, “This was partly because things were getting tougher, and partly because having a paid membership base made our work with unemployed workers more effective. Peoples’ Centres provided services, including hair-dressing and medical services.”
The WPC itself formed out of the Wellington Community Law Centre, Wellington Unemployed Workers Union, DPB Action and Downtown Community Ministry in 1992. The only centre to last for two decades, by early 2012 the WPC provided cheap dentistry, counselling, Social English classes, Workers’ Rights advice and benefit rights advocacy. [Read more…]
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