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  • Maoist protest in Nepal

    Solidarity. Read more

  • “Burn the vampire bosses”

    On the eve of Halloween there was a carnival atmosphere as people marched up Queen Street Auckland. The march was part of Unite’s campaign to get 300,000 signatures on our petition for the minimum wage to be raised to $15 an hour. If that target is reached by May next year the government will have to hold Read more

  • Book Review: How Aid Hurt Palestine

    Reprinted from Electronic Intifada. To support the WP Palestine solidarity campaign, click here. From 1994 — shortly after the Oslo Declaration of Principles was signed — to 2006, when Hamas won Palestinian legislative elections in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank, international donors gave $8 billion in aid to the Palestinians, making them one of the most Read more

  • Key tells CTU no major changes to employment law

    by Daphna Whitmore In the run up to the last general election the Labour Party enthusiasts who hold so many of the top posts of unions were giving dire predictions that a National government would take NZ back to the dark ages as far as workers’ rights were concerned. The Workers Party, in constrast, didn’t think Labour had ushered in Read more

  • Lockout Over, Cheese Workers Win Collective Agreement

    Media Release: Dairy Workers Union The month-long lockout of workers at Talleys-owned Open Country Cheese is over after workers have secured their goal of collective employment agreement to cover their jobs. “The members of our union at Open Country Cheese have stuck together right through this very difficult dispute,” Dairy Workers Union National Secretary James Read more

  • Michael Moore: “Socialism is democracy.”

    Ed note: The Workers Party does not necessarily endorse Moore’s analysis in full. Read more