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  • Marxism 2008: Call for Papers

    Marxism 2008: May 30-June 1, Auckland City, New Zealand (Schedule and venue to be announced) From May 30 to June 1, the Workers Party of New Zealand will be holding its 6th annual educational conference, Marxism 2008, in Auckland. The conference will be particularly important this year because, for the first time, the Workers Party Read more

  • Auckland Workers Party film screening and discussion forum

    A Symphony of Errors A film about the recent land struggle of Ngati Rohoto Hapu Tuesday 19th February 6pm upstairs @ Auckland Trades Hall, 147 Great Nth Road This film documents the militant land occupation and struggle of the Ngati Rohoto Hapu against the development of a gated community on top of a historic urupa Read more

  • Venezuela: the revolution in danger?

    Tim Bowron (first published on Socialist Democracy blog) Having suffered a narrow defeat in the constitutional referendum held last December, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez has signalled that plans to accelerate his Bolivarian socialist project will have to be placed temporarily on hold. Read more

  • Australian elections: ­ Howard’s out, but it’s still the same old bullshit

    Alastair Reith In the recent Australian General Elections, the eleven year reign of John Howard and his Liberal-National Coalition government was ended with a victory for the Labor Party and its leader Kevin Rudd. The elections saw a significant voter shift towards Labor, with Howard even losing his own seat in the election to Labor Read more

  • The legacy of Benazir Bhutto

    Joel Cosgrove No one should be crowing about the way in which Benazir Bhutto, the former Prime Minister and leader of the Pakistan Peoples’ Party, died – killed by an assassin’s bullet at the end of a political meeting in Rawalpindi on December 27. Yet the obituaries that quickly flowed across the Western world following Read more

  • Wellington bus drivers’ battles continue

    Don Franks In December 2007 the Workers Party produced a Spark insert, Bus drivers stand up to the boss. It described how Management of Go Wellington imposed shift changes in 2007 that resulted in driver salary reductions of up to $20,000 a year. At the same time, the company introduced an alternative collective to the Read more