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  • Thousands protest against Christchurch City Council CEO’s pay rise

    Kelly Pope is a Workers Party member in Christchurch who took part in the February protest for democracy in Christchurch. On our website we’ve already published a smaller article about the protest which was also written by Kelly. One of the largest protests Christchurch has seen in the past decade took place on February 1 Read more

  • Kony 2012: Or, how not to do charity

    Originally published on Scoop, this piece by Anne Russell looks into the problems with the Kony 2012 campaign which has spread virally online, advocating US intervention in Uganda. The Workers Party opposes all Western imperialist intervention in the Third World. Like many, I only recently heard of Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army Read more

  • Support striking and locked out workers at the ports, freezing works, rest homes

    The following article by Workers Party members Mike Kay and Byron Clark serves as a small summary of some of the recent industrial action. We note from the time of publication these struggles would have changed and we will provide fuller analysis in an upcoming issue of The Spark. The mood on the picket line at the Ports Read more

  • Video: Save Our Port march

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  • Auckland event: Rally to Save Our Port

    Join us to rally to Save Our Port and stand up for job security for the port workers and their families and for a publically owned sustainable and successful port. This is an issue for all of us – casualisation is not good for workers or their families. This is a growing story of working Read more

  • The Student: “Our dreams are no one’s property”

    Report on the radical student movement in Chile. Reprinted from The Student Issue 4 by We Are The University (Wellington) For close to a year now, the students of Chile have been in open revolt. Demanding free education from pre-school to tertiary level, students in Chile have organised the largest social movement the country has Read more