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  • Mana movement AGM: A socialist report

    By Mike Kay and Jared Phillips Around 200 activists from the Mana movement gathered for its AGM hui at Mataikotare Marae on the shores of Lake Rotorua over the weekend of 24-25 March. The programme, including speeches, debates, practical workshops and waiata showed Mana to be a vibrant and maturing movement. The event opened with Read more

  • Analysis and photos: Mass demonstration in Gisborne for repair of rail link

    By writers for The Spark On April 14 approximately 2000 Gisborne people and others who travelled from the nearby Wairoa township mobilised to demand the reinstatement of the Gisborne-to-Napier rail line which is under threat. People on the demonstration were angry and frustrated because the New Zealand Railways Corporation (NZRC) which trades as KiwiRail had Read more

  • Queer Avengers: Protesting and the Law Workshop (Wellington)

    The Queer Avengers are holding a workshop that is open to all activists on protesting and the law. Kate Scarlet from the Wellington Community Law Centre will be giving a talk on exactly what the laws are surrounding protest, and your rights as a protester. Topics include: – Your right to protest, including freedom of Read more

  • Fundraising for locked out AFFCO workers

    As the struggle between the meatworkers and the AFFCO Meatworks company passes its seventh week the nature of the financial support for the 943 locked out workers is becoming more apparent. $11,000 per week is coming in from other meatworkers around the country, in the last two weeks, $12,000 in street donations have been collected and Read more

  • New research into ethics and class: the rich are more likely to cut you off while driving and take candy from children

    Kelly Pope, Workers Party, Christchurch With increasing industrial and social action against inequality taking place around the world, one outcome has been a shift in the focus of research towards the issues these movements and campaigns are highlighting. For example, in psychology and ethics there has been a recent emphasis on exploring the relationship between Read more

  • The dialectical relationship between work and mental health – Part 4

    This is the final instalment of a four-part series by Polly Peek From a Marxist perspective, the low pay rates of jobs with low psycho-social quality is related to the concept of exploitation – the necessity for wages to be worth less than the value created by the worker’s labour, in order to continue to Read more