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  • Press Release: Overnight Box University set up at Victoria University

    Overnight Box University set up at Victoria in opposition to management slash and burn. Students at Victoria University have constructed a ‘Box University’ within the Murphy Overbridge, overlooking Kelburn Parade, to raise awareness and organise against the cuts and attacks which University management are undertaking against staff and students. The box university is a rare Read more

  • Election series article # 8: Defend MMP in the 2011 referendum

    This article by Jared Phillips first appeared in the June 2011 issue of The Spark. This year New Zealand electors will vote in a national referendum, held as part of the general elections, asking them firstly to indicate whether they want to change from MMP, and secondly to indicate their preferred electoral system. The other Read more

  • Wellington Protest: Call for Action on Oil Spill!

    The grounding of the Rena containter ship 20kms off the coast of  Taurunga last Wednesday is having an environmental impact across the coastal area of the Bay of Plenty. The government itself has admitted that this is New Zealand’s worst maritime environmental disaster. We encourage all Welllington readers to head to the protest against the Read more

  • The church of commodity fetishism and the order of Saint Jobs

    This article will appear in the November issue of The Spark In Marxist theory, commodity fetishism describes the mystification of social relations between people to objectified relations between things. While the actual value of a product is equivalent to the amount of labour that went into it, products are seen to have a greater value Read more

  • “I am a Queer Avenger”

    Queer Our Schools speech by Kassie Hartendorp, Workers Party Wellington branch organiser and Queer Avenger. Further speeches on GayNZ. We’re here because we’re angry. Our anger should not come as a surprise, in fact its long over-due; the ministry has consecutively failed, year after year, in its legal care-of-duty to provide safe and affirming environments for Read more

  • Election series article # 7: WP not standing in any electorates in 2011

    In the last few elections the Workers Party has stood candidates in a number of electorates. In the 2008 election we became a registered party after signing up over 500 members and we were therefore able to stand a party list. The intention of standing in the elections was to try and raise the profile Read more