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  • Workers Party candidate calls for abolition of GST at Mayday protest

    The following speech was given by Workers Party candidate for Wellington Central Don Franks at a protest organised by the Newtown Residents’ Coalition against the rising cost of living on May 2: Folks, we’re here tonight to commemorate Mayday, International Workers Day. This day has been marked internationally since May 1st 1886, when there were Read more

  • Marxism 2008 Programme

    FRIDAY evening 30 May 7pm Bullets and ballots: Babu Maharjan from Nepal gives a first-hand account of the mass movement for change. 8pm Vote socialist 2008: The Workers Party launches its election campaign with a view to being on ballot papers in every home. SATURDAY 31 May 10am Revolution and Resistance: panel discussion Dennis Maga Read more

  • France 1968 – on the brink of revolution

    – Mike Kay On May 1st 1968, Paris erupted. There had been a few big strikes in the years leading up to it, but by and large the upsurge took all by surprise. It was the tenth anniversary of the day General De Gaulle had seized presidential power in France by an unresisted military coup. Read more

  • Workers Party supports peace activists, calls for Waihopai Spy Base to be scrapped

    Press Release “Claims by Prime Minister Helen Clark that yesterday’s action by peace activists at the Waihopai Spy Base near Blenheim was nothing more than ‘a senseless act of vandalism’ show how totally out of touch the Labour government is with reality,” according to Workers Party national organiser Daphna Whitmore. “Instead of complaining about the Read more

  • Internationalist response to FTA needed

    – John Edmundson The New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed on April 7 is the first free trade agreement China has made with any developed Western country. It is an historic deal for the Chinese government in its push to be fully accepted into the capitalist club. The deal is historic for New Zealand Read more

  • A letter to our readers

    Dear Spark readers and Workers Party supporters, In the last two years the Workers Party has participated in and supported many campaigns, most notably: * Against racist detention of Iranian migrants at Mt. Eden prison (taking arrests and legal costs) * Stop The Killings (in the Philippines) campaign * Hotel workers unionisation campaign * Restaurant Read more