Grid of posts 2×3

  • Wellington event: Greece and the Eurozone Crisis

    Greece has made headlines recently, with an earth-shaking anti-austerity movement apparently growing more organised. At the last elections, anti-austerity coalition Syriza gained substantially, while the two major pro-austerity parties lost votes. Joel Cosgrove will lead a discussion on the implications of this development for Europe, and the world more generally. 6pm, Tuesday 21st of August 19 Read more

  • Safer Spaces in Political Organising

    Kassie Hartendorp is a Workers Party member, founding activist of the Queer Avengers, and works as a youth worker for a queer youth organisation. This article is adapted from a talk presented at the Workers Party annual conference. What is a safe space? As background, safe spaces began in forms such as consciousness-raising groups within Read more

  • Beyond Marriage

    Originally printed on GayNZ. The Queer Avengers have launched a new website highlighting the limitations of marriage and adoption law, and while supporting the call for marriage equality, it also underlines that it’s not the end of the line for LGBT struggles. The site, beyondmarriage.org.nz tells stories of relationships, and family structures, excluded or oppressed by marriage Read more

  • Tertiary education for the rich, not the poor

    While University funding has been trending downwards per student since the 70’s, cuts have started to ramp up since the election of the current National government in 2008. The recently unveiled budget contained an actual cut to the tertiary education budget, when recently the budget has seen below-inflation increases. Down from $4 billion to $3.9 Read more

  • Rest home workers strike

    “When someone works for less pay than she can live on when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life. The ‘working poor,’ as they are Read more

  • Quebec student leader tours Aotearoa/NZ

    Guillaume Legault is a leading member of Quebec’s CLASSE — the Broad Coalition of the Association for Student Union Solidarity — a radical student organisation at the forefront of a months-long student strike against tuition fee hikes. Quebec’s student movement is still locked in struggle with the ruling Liberal government over the new fees. The Read more