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  • Casino strikes continue into third month

    – Laurie Garnett Auckland’s SkyCity casino workers have been striking since August. In the last issue of the Spark we looked at the creative tactics of the strikers who were in for the long haul. With the company not budging from its 4 percent offer, workers are keeping the pressure on the management. In the Read more

  • Is capitalism heading for a meltdown?

    Click here to download our special Spark supplement which analyses the crisis currently enveloping the world financial markets and asks what it might mean for workers as well as the rest of the global economy. Read more

  • Don’t Talk to Cops

    US lawyer on why it’s our right to remain silent, and why we should exercise it. And a cop backing him up: Read more

  • POLL VAULT 2008 by Jim Delahunty

    The voters of Wellington Central Have got a simple choice Support the man of capital Or heed the workers’ voice. CHORUS Which Franks are you on [its Don!] Which Franks are you on [its Don!] There’s Labour and there’s National And there’s New Zealand First They’re such a bunch of phonies You can’t tell who’s Read more

  • Workers Party registered today

    The Workers Party today became a registered political party. This means that in the upcoming 2008 general election for the first time a hard-left party will be able to contest the party list vote and be on the ballot paper in every part of the country! With just a month to go to election day Read more

  • 3 Workers Party members elected to 2009 VUWSA executive

    – Workers Party Media Release Workers’ Party member Jasmine Freemantle was elected President of the Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association (VUWSA) for 2009 last Wednesday night. Freemantle was elected by a comfortable majority over her Labour Party rival Sonny Thomas, after a heated campaign that fuelled the highest voter turn out in a VUWSA Read more