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  • Go Wellington versus environmental justice

    –Ian Anderson The conduct of Go Wellington demonstrates the struggle between capitalism and environmental justice.  Environmental justice refers not only to environmental impact, but the full participation of those affected. ‘Sustainability’ is the current buzzword amongst politicians, generally meaning the capacity of capitalist practices to dodge points-of-no-return for environmental reproduction. However, working people are disproportionately Read more

  • Standing up for socialist ideas

    The Spark November 2008 The Workers Party is primarily an organisation of activists who fight for workers’ interests on jobs and in the streets. We recognise that the struggle for workers’ rights and workers’ power mostly takes place outside of parliament. Taking mass actions against an employer offers workers more chance of controlling their destiny Read more

  • The Greens and their left-wing friends

    -John Moore At a recent election meeting at the University of Auckland, the prominent anarchist Omar Hamed of the Auckland Anarchist Network presented “an anarchist view on elections” but then admitted he would be voting for the Greens. This was a good example of how the left-wing friends of what is increasingly a party of Read more

  • Much of the left crying wolf over Nats

    – Philip Ferguson One thing the election and the days since have confirmed is the inability of many on the left to make a sober analysis based on reality and, in particular, the way in which bourgeois politics is related to the economy and how bourgeois politics is centrally concerned with the maintenance of conditions Read more

  • How capitalists get their profit

    -John Edmundson (The Spark, November 2008) With the financial turmoil dominating the news over the last two months, commentators are talking about the end of the free market. Some panicked commentators have even questioned the survival of capitalism itself. With capitalism in a state of panic and all sorts of people in the media suddenly Read more

  • Trotter reckons you blew it

     – Nick Kelly So-called ‘from the left’ political commentator Chris Trotter posed the following question to his post election column in the Sunday Star times:  “What led the majority of the New Zealand electorate to reject a government that has not only done it no great harm but might even be said to have done it Read more