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  • Unite starts Facebook campaign against unfair sacking

    Unite has launched a Facebook campaign for Pat Bidois, a union delegate at St Georges Language School who was unfairly dismissed. The page reads: Management have been trying to get rid of Pat for years as she is an effective and passionate defender of workers rights on her site. Read more

  • Earthquake results in disaster for Japanese people

    Rebecca Broad, Workers Party National Organiser A magnitude nine earthquake and consequent 23 ft tidal wave, occurring 70km off the northeast coast of Japan March 11, has caused severe and extensive damage to that country. The three prefectures or states of Miyagi, Fukushima, and Iwate have sustained the most damage and loss of life. Multiple Read more

  • Play review: Mates and Lovers

    Adapted by Ronald Trifero Nelson from a script by Chris Brickell, review by Workers Party member James Froch Having significantly evolved since it last showed at Bats in 2009, a new production of Mates and Lovers is back in Wellington as part of the second Asia-Pacific Out Games.  This celebration of the modern gay identity is Ronald Nelson’s Read more

  • Industrial Tasks and Perspectives December 2010 / Industrial Report

    The following article is an edited version of a report submitted to the Workers Party internal conference in January 2011 by its National Industrial officer Mike Kay. General Outlook The unemployment rate in the September 2010 year was virtually unchanged since the previous year, at 6.4%. Employment had increased by 1.8%, economic growth had been Read more

  • Revisiting socialism and women’s liberation

    This article is by Kassie Hartendorp, organiser of the Wellington branch of the Workers Party. The article will be printed in three parts, in the new Women’s Liberation section of The Spark. Historically, one of the most controversial topics within Marxist theory is ‘the woman question’ which continues to create debate and disagreement within socialist Read more

  • Workers’ Power 2011: National conference of the Workers Party

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