NZ Labour Party – FightBack

A constant air of unreality

November 2, 2008 by Admin

Workers Party address to Kelburn election meeting 2 November 2008

Don Franks

Thanks for inviting the Workers Party to this meeting. We’ve contested several elections, but this is the first time I’ve stood myself and I must say it’s been a bit of an eye opener. There is a constant air of unreality to the whole affair.

For example, the relentless muck raking that’s been indulged in by some participants coupled with rhetoric about “fairness” and “trust”.

Also, the many outrageously deceitful claims. for example the sticker saying “more child poverty National – not the change we need” – as if there’s no such poverty today!

Labour Day debate on progressive alternatives to Labour

October 26, 2008 by Admin

Filed Under: 2008 Election, Fightback News, NZ Labour Party

Clark rewrites history to conceal Labour started the Dawn Raids in the ’70s

October 25, 2008 by Admin

Workers Party media release

“Remember the National Party initiated dawn raids in the 1970s” Ms Clark told reporters on the election campaign trail in South Auckland on 23 October.

“Either Ms Clark is ignorant of the facts or she is knowingly concealing the truth” says Daphna Whitmore, Workers Party candidate for Manukau East. “Labour was in government from 1972 until 1975, and the dawn raids on Pacific Islanders began in 1974”.

A quick check of the Samoan history section of the Encyclopedia of NZ confirms that indeed Labour began the raids nearly two years before National came to office.

Workers Party Not Hand Shakers

October 24, 2008 by Byron

Workers Party media release

Workers Party Christchurch Central candidate Byron Clark is surprised at some of the reactions he’s got since refusing to shake hands with Labour candidate Brendon Burns at a recent candidates forum.

“There is an idea among some candidates it seems, that the election campaign is just a job interview style process with the electorate where we all wish each other well and hope we get picked, but I’m fundamentally opposed to the system Labour and National support, and I think principles are more important than what some see as ‘good manners'”

Clark noted the recent OECD report which shows inequality has increased drastically in the past twenty years.

“For most of that 20 years Labour has been in power, they have presided over the biggest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in this country’s history. I have no respect for a party that can do that.”

Filed Under: 2008 Election, NZ Labour Party Tagged With: 2008 Election

Labour – not so worker friendly

October 15, 2008 by Admin

Many people recognise that National is no friend of the workers, but should workers and unionists be called on to vote for Labour? They have been in government for the past 9 years but are workers better off as a result? Check the record:

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Filed Under: 2008 Election, NZ Labour Party, Workers in Struggle Tagged With: NZ Labour Party