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  • Video: Christchurch campaign launch

    Below are the speeches given by Christchurch Central candidate Byron Clark and Christchurch East candidate Paul Hopkinson at the official launch of the Christchurch Workers Party 2008 election campaign last month. Byron speaks on the problem with the ‘mainstream’ parties, and Paul on the alternative offered by the Workers Party. Read more

  • Spark Audio: Three talks on the Middle East

    The following talks recorded at forums in the first half of 2008 have just been added to the Spark Audio archive. John Edmundson What future for Palestine? Phil Ferguson Iraq five years on Nick Scullin The present war in Afghanistan Read more

  • A Marxist critique of Postmodernism

    – Byron Clark This article was originally published in the University of Canterbury student magazine Canta under the title ‘Minimum wage is an objective truth: How postmodernism hurts the working class’. If you’re an Arts student then theres no doubt that you will have encountered the term ‘postmodernism’ at some point during your time at Read more

  • Women’s Rights 2008

    (Boobs on Bikes organiser Steve Crow argues that the issue is a woman’s right to bare her breasts in public) Women of New Zealand, I believe You owe some gratitude to Steve Since Rogernomics hit the fan It’s since been for himself each man Each to his own and stuff thy neighbour Under National or Read more

  • Open borders – unite workers!

    While capital, commodities and rich people get to travel more freely around the world, workers’ freedom to move is increasingly restricted. Big companies can move freely to where labour is cheaper, for instance, but workers can’t move freely to where wages are higher. The Labour government favours free trade agreements, for instance, while imposing new Read more

  • Prohibition is not the answer!

    The extension of the Wellington City Council’s liquor ban into Aro St and Aro Park is not the answer, says Wellington Central Workers Party candidate Don Franks. “Banning alcohol in public is not the answer” says Franks “This is a class issue. As more and more people find it harder to buy a drink in Read more