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Greens leave Left political space to the Alliance

Wednesday, 7 June 2006, 9:18 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

Nandor Tanczos may have lost the Green leadership race to Russel Norman, but he re-ignited the "neither left nor right" debate within the Green Party. The real problem for the Greens is their refusal to acknowledge that we live in a "class divided" society, ... More >>

Govt does not go far enough with "unbundling"

Thursday, 4 May 2006, 1:58 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

The Government has not gone far enough with its "unbundling" proposal to deal with Telecom’s monopoly ownership of the telephone lines, says Alliance Co-leader Len Richards. More >>

Wellington Public forum: Whose Water?

Wednesday, 3 May 2006, 3:00 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

Speakers: - Dr Geoff Bertram (senior lecturer in economics at Victoria University) speaking on privatisation. - Bryan Pepperell (Wellington City Councillor) speaking about what’s going on with water in Wellington. More >>

NZ left in the dark in free trade swindle

Friday, 7 April 2006, 10:04 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

The Alliance Party says the free trade deal with China announced today will go down in history as a con-job of monumental proportions, and a cynical victory of cash over principles. More >>

Port of Lyttelton plan a warning on China Deal

Thursday, 30 March 2006, 11:34 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

The Alliance Party says the news that the Hong Kong-based multinational Hutchison has pulled out of a deal to buy up part of the Port of Lyttelton gives the public a breathing space – but is just a temporary tactic by privatizers. More >>

People power can end low wage ripoff culture

Thursday, 23 March 2006, 2:28 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

Alliance co-leader Len Richards says the recent actions by young people in Auckland against low pay and youth rates have the full support of the Alliance Party. More >>

Job slashers at Canterbury must be stopped

Thursday, 23 March 2006, 12:43 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

The Alliance says plans by University of Canterbury management to sack twenty staff members from the College of Arts is a scandal. More >>

Port of Lyttelton deal "privatization by stealth"

Wednesday, 8 March 2006, 3:07 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

The Alliance Party says that Port of Lyttelton should be put in public ownership, not put under the control of a multinational corporation. More >>

Labour Government PM blames workers for job losses

Tuesday, 21 February 2006, 8:42 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

Prime Minister Helen Clark has blamed the workers for refusing to accept the wage cuts and loss of conditions involved in the union-management deal that was negotiated to try and save half the 600 threatened Air New Zealand engineering jobs. More >>

Alliance says Judith Collins a threat to society

Tuesday, 7 February 2006, 8:55 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

The Alliance Party has called for National Party welfare spokesperson Judith Collins to resign following her comments on poverty. More >>

Alliance calls for public control of power

Wednesday, 1 February 2006, 9:42 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

The Alliance Party says revelations about price gouging by State power company Transpower have only one solution: the return of electricity to full public control. More >>

Take the power back, the Alliance says

Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 8:57 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

People are paying 30%-40% extra for electricity since 2000 because pricing is based on “market forces”, and not what ordinary people can afford to pay for what is an essential public service, the Alliance Party says. More >>

Unions fail to confront Govt over Air NZ plans

Monday, 12 December 2005, 9:52 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

Rather than confront the Government over Air NZ plans to shut-down its heavy engineering aircraft repair operations, unions have turned to an anti-union accounting firm to come up with a cost-saving scheme at the expense of workers' conditions. More >>

Alliance supports moves to scrap youth rates

Monday, 12 December 2005, 9:41 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

The Alliance supports Green MP Sue Bradford's call to scrap youth rates for 16 and 17 year olds. More >>

Alliance looks to future

Monday, 12 December 2005, 9:40 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

The Alliance showed with its feisty election campaign that it is still a political alternative on the left of Labour with policies that offer a very different perspective from both Labour and the Greens. More >>

MMP is Rod Donald’s lasting legacy

Monday, 7 November 2005, 8:32 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

The Aotearoa Left mourns today the loss of Green Party co-leader Rod Donald whose lasting legacy is MMP, for which he campaigned long and hard. More >>

Cullen washes his hands of Air NZ job losses

Thursday, 20 October 2005, 9:06 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

The Labour Government should step in as the major shareholder of one of the most important strategic assets in this country and take control of Air New Zealand before the privatisers wreck the company - as they did before. More >>

Labour's true colours are not "Red"

Tuesday, 18 October 2005, 2:46 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

This Government is not the one the workers of South Auckland voted for, nor Maori, when they overwhelmingly gave their party votes to Labour. More >>

Right suffers defeat at hands of the working class

Monday, 19 September 2005, 9:06 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

Election 2005 saw the defeat of the most concerted, open attempt by the extreme right to govern New Zealand that we have ever seen, the Alliance says. More >>

Party vote for Alliance sends signal for future

Monday, 12 September 2005, 1:23 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

It is important that people who support Alliance policies vote Alliance with their Party vote as a signal that workers’ rights, living standards and public services matter. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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