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  • Wellington event: CLASSE speaking tour

    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

  • Fear and Loathing in the Public Sector

    Ben Jacobs, Wellington branch of the Workers Party One aspect of the government’s spending that was not widely covered by the media at the time of this year’s budget announcements was the reduction in public sector spending by one billion dollars over the next three years. This comes on top of the sinking lid on Read more

  • Wellington event: What is Marxism

    In the era of Occupy, the Arab Spring, and the global financial crisis, the need for fundamental change is obvious to many. However this post-Soviet generation is understandably skeptical of many “Old Left” ideas and approaches. Does Marxism serve a useful purpose, or is it an outdated label? How do we identify the wheat and Read more

  • Pacific migration: Climate change and the reserve army of labour

    Ian Anderson Climate change hits different regions in different ways. An area scattered with low-lying atolls, the Pacific is particularly vulnerable to sea-level rise. Environmental migration must be a key consideration for socialists in this region. Nations such as Tuvalu and Kiribati are already affected. Coastal erosion in Tuvalu, a nation comprised of atolls and Read more

  • July 14th: Thousands march against asset sales

    Previous coverage of asset sales and fightback: WSWS left-sect slanders genuine socialist participation in the campaign against asset sales Thousands say: “John Key, you’ve got mail, Aotearoa is not for sale” Workers Party leaflet: Aotearoa Not For Sale – to local or foreign capitalists! State-owned assets: No to confiscation, yes to collective control Read more

  • Gay Pride 2012: A brief report from New York City

    This report on NY Gay Pride was irst published on the Kasama Project blog. Ish also writes at The Cahokian. June 24, this last Sunday was the 42nd annual gay pride parade in New York City. The event commemorates the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprising in which lesbian, gay and transgender New Yorkers fought back against a Read more