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  • Crowne Plaza hotel strike hits Brisbane Broncos

      The Brisbane Broncos won’t be experiencing full kiwi hospitality this weekend. The team is staying at Auckland’s plush Crowne Plaza hotel, where room attendants and other staff have gone on strike. Around twenty members of Unite union are on strike; calling for a pay rise and better working conditions. “We are underpaid and overworked” Read more

  • Film Review: Watchmen

    2009, Directed by Zack Snyder Based on the highly acclaimed graphic novel by Alan Moore, Watchmen is a story made to show superheroes be in the real world. Superheroes have been a constant target of Moore’s satire and venom. Influenced by Anarchism, Moore sees the superheroes as combinations of lonely, pathetic, psychotic, paternalistic, self-indulgent and Read more

  • Public Forum: Deir Yassin: The Bloody Beginnings of the Israeli State

    Speaker: John Edmundson April marks the 61s anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacres when up to 250 Palestinians, mainly old men, women and children, were massacred by Israeli forces during the establishment of the modern state of Israel. Come along and hear how and why the Israeli state was set up through the dispossession of Read more

  • The Jobs Summit and how we respond to the Nat’s strategy

    Philip Ferguson Misjudging the Nats Most of the left, both organised groups and the wider milieu of individual leftists, still really believe there is a fundamental difference between Labour and National.  While the Workers Party have never argued that they are exactly the same, we’re probably the only people who really believe – and act Read more

  • Unions can’t cave in on migrant workers – solidarity needed

     Jared Phillips   Almost every day union leaders across different sectors make public comments and statements with which revolutionary socialists disagree. Often we publicly oppose them. Sometimes it is completely necessary to oppose them.  In response to the economic downturn the Engineers Printing and Manufacturing Union (EPMU) leadership has started an information campaign declaring that Read more

  • OPEN BORDERS OR LEFT NATIONALISM?

    History by Don Franks Since its formation the Workers Party of New Zealand has recognised that immigration controls are essentially a boss’s device to control workers. Accordingly, the Workers Party has always stood firmly in opposition to immigration controls. Point 4 of our 5-point programme spells it out in these words: “For working class unity Read more