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  • The Queer Avengers March On

    This interview with Queer Avengers spokesman and Workers Party member Jason Froch was first printed on GayNZ. “Queer our Schools” is the first campaign to be born from Wellington-based group The Queer Avengers, which emerged from the Queer the Night march in the capital. We find out more about the group and what changes it wants in Read more

  • Vic Students Make Some Noise

    This article was originally published in the SA Anti-Capitalist Uni Special. By Joel Cosgrove, Workers Party member and former VUWSA President. Students at Victoria University have started to fight the cuts and redundancies that have become commonplace over the last five-seven years. The most recent attack that started the current fightback was a change proposal Read more

  • Voluntary Student Membership (VSM) – a socialist perspective

    This article was originally printed in the Spark December 2010, at a stage when the Workers Party Wellington branch was reconsidering its involvement in Students Assocations. We reprint it now in the lead-up to the VSM bill’s passage on September the 28th and in light of increased student militancy, with significant actions in Auckland and Read more

  • The footage – five videos from students’ national day of action

    Students enter Hunter building Up-close: Victoria University security hitting and pushing, hitting camera. Kassie Hartendorp, Workers Party branch organiser for Wellington on megaphone. Students against debt Vic and barricade/occupation in Auckland – TV3 Victoria University security again For information on the day of action protests visit click here. Read more

  • Fiery scenes at Victoria University as security attack students

    Over 300 students gathered today to protest ongoing cuts and redundancies at Victoria University this afternoon. More than one hundred students marched to deliver a letter outlining their concerns to Vice Chancellor Pat Walsh. At that point University security guards blocked access to the students, whose sole intention was to deliver their letter to Walsh Read more

  • Annette Sykes on Operation 8

    Marae Investigates on dropped charges for Operation 8 defendants. Mana Party candidate, and lawyer for the defence, Annette Sykes challenges Maori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell on the failure to act against the Crown: “You work with iwi leaders, you don’t work with the people.”  Mana calls for all remaining charges to be dropped. More of Sykes’ take Read more