Grid of posts 2×3

  • Immigration Amendment Bill: limiting workers’ freedom

    – John Edmundson In the years following the September 11 2001 attacks, the world has seen a massive tightening of immigration controls. In this country, many New Zealanders’ first experience of this trend was the overnight quadrupling of the cost of maintaining a passport. In one fell swoop, the life of a passport was halved,… Read more

  • No justice for victims of police brutality

    – Alastair Reith On June 25th, a white jury in Tauranga found Police Sergeant Keith Parsons, Senior Constable Bruce Laing, Constable John Mills and Sergeant Erle Busby not guilty of brutally assaulting Rawiri Falwasser, a young Maori, in October 2006. With police like these, who needs criminals? Rewi Falwasser suffered a mental breakdown on Labour… Read more

  • Workers Party applies to register with Electoral Commission

    The Workers Party has today made an application to the Electoral Commission to register as a political party able to contest the list vote in the upcoming national elections. In the 2002 and 2005 elections (standing as the Anti-Capitalist Alliance) it has contested a number of electorate seats in the main centers, and will be… Read more

  • Auckland WP forum – Abortion: Whose choice is it?

    Mon July 7 6pm – Mon Level 1, Trades Hall, 147 Great North Road, Grey Lynn The anti-choice lobby group “Right To Life” are jubilant over a High Court judge’s review that questions the legality of many abortions. Daphna Whitmore discusses the legal, social and practical realities of abortion in NZ today (rescheduled from 23… Read more

  • WP leaflet on increased road user charges

    Below is the text of a leaflet distributed by members of the Workers Party Auckland branch at the protest earlier today by truck drivers against the recently announced increase in road user charges. Independence from the bosses – A workers’ response required in the campaign against rising cost of living The boss class is to… Read more

  • Spark Audio: Cuba – resisting imperialism

    In this talk Mike Treen looks at the history of Cuba since the revolution and Cuba’s place in the world today. Recorded at Marxism 2008. Download the MP3 here. Read more