Grid of posts 2×3

  • Against Asset Sales

    Annette Sykes, Mana President: asset sales and tangata whenua Ian Anderson, Chair of Mana Rangatahi ki Poneke: public control of assets Asset sales legislation has passed despite opposition from some 80% of those polled, and up to 88% of tangata whenua. Kai and korero on the fightback at Wellington Library Mezzanine. Read more

  • July issue of the Spark online

    Editorial, Byron Clark The cover of every issue of The Spark contains the slogan ‘For workers power and international socialism’ this issue contains several articles that show how the class struggle is unfolding today. New Zealand has been condemned for the seaborne sweatshops that fish in New Zealand waters. It’s not much better for migrant Read more

  • Class struggle today: Ports of Auckland & AFFCO disputes

    Mike Kay In the first half of 2012 we have seen the bosses attack New Zealand workers in some of their strongest bastions: the Ports of Auckland and the freezing works. In this talk I want to focus on a single aspect of both disputes, namely, the role of iwi in assisting the workers. This Read more

  • Science under socialism: part II

    In this follow-up to “Science under Capitalism” published in the June issue of The Spark, laboratory technician and Workers Party member Josh Glue considers the possibilities for scientific progress in a future run along socialist lines. Socialism is the period of movement toward a classless stateless society run through democratic workers control of the means Read more

  • Examining regional mobility

    Byron Clark The recent Australian census revealed that 483,000 New Zealanders are currently living in Australia. 130,000 of them are Maori. The figures have provoked some coverage in the media, including a number of articles quoting William Bourke, the founder and director of the Stable Population Party, which wants an end to the Trans-Tasman Travel Read more

  • Review: Occupy This Album (2012)

    Byron Clark Wired magazine journalist Quinn Norton wrote about the music of the Occupy movement way back in December 2011, stating that “A movement goes nowhere without creating culture as it grows.” ‘Occupy This Album’ seemed almost inevitable. This is the closest thing possible to an official sound track that could come out of this Read more