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  • Capitalism: not our future!

    – John Edmundson One thing we’re supposed to value about living in the capitalist West is “choice”. We can choose our representatives, we can choose where to work, we can choose how to spend our money. Socialists, including myself, often argue that those choices are an illusion for most people. Under capitalism, real choice exists Read more

  • Westfield bans union organiser from mall

    Auckland Unite Union organiser and Workers Party member Jared Phillips talks to The Spark. What’s the background to this trespass? Unite union has begun a campaign to get a new set of union agreements in the cinema chains, and to continue re-unionising that industry. The offer from Skycity Cinemas, which is a large chain, was Read more

  • Workers Party talks to union officials

    Workers Party Wellington Central candidate Don Franks reports on his recent meeting with NZ Council of Trade Unions representatives. When the local CTU organiser emailed around to say the Local Affiliates Council was going to discuss General Election strategy, I called back and asked for a few minutes to put our case at one of Read more

  • A damning report – and a cowardly response

    – Don Franks Activist and author Anne Else was the keynote speaker at a public meeting of the Campaign Against Rising Prices held on Saturday June 7 in the Wellington suburb of Newtown. Anne spoke as a member of the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), a non-profit group formed in 1994. CPAG believes that “New Read more

  • Spark Audio: Bullets and ballots – the revolution in Nepal

    In this talk Babu Maharjan presents a brief history of the people’s war in Nepal that has led to expulsion of the monarchy and overwhelming success for the revolutionary party in the first fully-democratic election in that country, in which it gained a majority. Recording also includes lengthy Q&A session. Recorded at Marxism 2008 Download Read more

  • Don Franks on the importance of class in New Zealand

    Appearing in a segment on yesterday’s Radio NZ “Ideas” program, Workers Party Wellington Central candidate Don Franks explains the reality behind the superficial rhetoric about New Zealand being a “classless” society. Download the podcast here or the audio stream here Read more