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  • Advance Pasifika takes living standards demands to Auckland’s Queen Street

    Pasifika people have hit the streets of Auckland in large numbers for the first time since the infamous dawn raids thirty years ago. Mobilising behind the organisation “Advance Pasifika”, about 800 people marched on Saturday to demand affordable housing, better educational outcomes, quality healthcare and decent jobs with a living wage for Pasifika people in Read more

  • 120 attend Workers Party national conference in Wellington

    By writers for The Spark In early June the Workers Party held its annual national conference – this year called Socialism 2012 – in Newtown, Wellington. Public event The event opened with Jared Phillips of the Hamilton branch putting forward a class analysis and economic forecast for the coming period. Guest speaker Sue Bradford from Auckland Read more

  • June issue of The Spark online

    Editorial This month will see the end of TVNZ7, New Zealand’s only commercial free public broadcaster. It was short lived and never terribly popular. The commercial nature of the other TVNZ channels meant there was a disincentive to promote the commercial free offering. Australian public television signals, which for a while could be picked up Read more

  • Science and socialism: How science can be used to benefit the majority

    In this first of two articles lab technician and Workers Party member in Hamilton Josh Glue discusses the nature of science and the limitations and advantages put upon it by the capitalist system. In next month’s issue of The Spark, a follow-up article will examine the possible advantages for scientific discovery and application in a Read more

  • Commentary on Greece

    Recent elections in Greece have shown growing public support for the anti-austerity left and radical left, particularly for SYRIZA, which translates to Coalition of the Radical Left. The radical and anti-austerity left correctly ruled out forming a government with the pro-cuts social democrats. However, the traditional Communist Party, the (KKE), which has long ceased to Read more

  • Socialism 2012: Class struggle in Aotearoa

    6-8pm Friday 1st June (opening night) Newtown Community & Cultural Centre Read more