Grid of posts 2×3

  • May issue of The Spark online

    As we go to press the ‘Aotearoa is not Sale’ Hikoi has left Auckland and will reach parliament on May 4. Two days later, thousands are expected to turn out at a Christchurch protest calling for mid-term elections and the resignation of the City Council CEO. These events follow after demonstrations against state housing demolition… Read more

  • The story of May Day

    In this article originally published by the Socialist Workers Party (USA) Elizabeth Schulte tells the history of May Day, a socialist holiday founded to honor the Haymarket Martyrs and celebrate international workers’ solidarity. “THERE WILL be a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.” Those were the last… Read more

  • Wellington event: VUW Not For Sale

    The Aotearoa Not for Sale hikoi is arriving in Wellington on May 4th and we’re going to meet up on campus and after a few speeches, march down as VUW students to join with the hikoi as a whole. BRING POTS AND PANS/NOISEMAKERS. 11:30am May 4th, Hunter Courtyard Read more

  • Photos: Hikoi and meatworkers solidarity

    The hikoi is showing that tangata whenua are in the forefront of the struggle against asset sales and privatisation. One aspect of the hikoi is the unity between the locked-out meatworkers (employed by Talleys-AFFCO) and others who are opposed to asset-sales and privatisation. This was apparent in the north, where workers employed at the Moerewa… Read more

  • Copyright as theft

    In the March issue of The Spark an article about Kim Dotcom (available online at http://bit.ly/x2nFKF) ended with the words “Discussing ways in which content creators can be remunerated fairly for their work, and also about how the boundaries between creative work and other forms of labour can be broken down are beyond the scope… Read more

  • Workers Party leaflet: Aotearoa Not For Sale – to local or foreign capitalists!

    Workers Party members are actively supporting the “Aotearoa is not for sale” hīkoi. Indeed, we believe we need to go further than just keeping assets in public hands, we want to push forward for workers’ and users’ control of those assets. Whilst a number of political parties have pledged their support for the campaign, we… Read more