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  • Occupying an impasse: learning from mistakes?

    All great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice… first as tragedy, then as farce. -Karl Marx, 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte October 15th has a double significance in this country, as both the day of the 2007 invasion of the Ureweras, and the day the global ‘Occupy’ movement arrived here in 2011. Read more

  • 21st Century Stalinism and Anti-Stalinism

    “Anti-Stalinism, by itself, is no program for common struggle. It is too broad a term, and it means different things to different people.” -James P Cannon, American Stalinism and Anti-Stalinism Recent shifts in our organisation are renewing historical questions. At Workers Power 2011, comrades from the International Socialist Organisation and Socialist Aotearoa noted that our Read more

  • The Fighting Propaganda Group

    Continuation of our discussion about communist organisation (On The Party Question and Demoralisation or Disorientation?) Only he [sic] who can keep his heart strong and his will as sharp as a sword when the general disillusionment is at its worst can be regarded as a fighter for the working class or called a revolutionary. Gramsci, Avanti, Piedmont Read more

  • CMP/ANZCO dispute shows need for freedom to strike

    By editors of The Spark In late October 2011 over one hundred workers belonging to the New Zealand Meat Workers Union and employed at the ANZCO-owned CMP mutton processing plant in Marton, in the Manawatu area, were locked out by the company. The company was demanding that the workers take between 20%-30% losses of renumeration. Read more

  • Post-revolution Egypt: An Inside Look from an Outsider’s Eyes

    Nada Tawfeek is an Egyptian born activist currently residing in New Zealand. She wrote this first-hand account for The Spark after spending two months in Egypt; it again does not necessarily reflect a “party line.” As the plane I was on approached Cairo, and I could finally see the pyramids after a good 24 hours Read more

  • Demoralisation or disorientation? Causes of the Split in the WP

    This is part of an ongoing discussion among Workers Party comrades and doesn’t necessarily reflect an agreed position. “Of course, even among the workers who had at one time risen to the first ranks, there are not a few tired and disillusioned ones. They will remain, at least for the next period as bystanders. When Read more