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Far-Right Smear Campaign Continues Against New Zealand Green MP
Tuesday, 15 April 2025, 9:15 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The demonisation of Doyle is part of the National Party-led government’s efforts to stoke divisions based on race, gender and sexuality, and to divert public attention from its historic assault on workers’ living standards and preparations for war. More >>
New Zealand Government Downplays Trump’s Tariffs, Despite Business Fears
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 8:04 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Tariffs express the madness of the capitalist system, in which the world remains divided into rival nation states and imperialist powers, which are determined to strengthen their grip on natural resources and supply chains at the expense of their ... More >>
New Zealand Government Stokes Fascistic Smear Campaign Against Green MP
Friday, 4 April 2025, 8:30 am | Socialist Equality Group
The toxic and divisive politics of NZ First and the govt must be opposed. But it must be stressed that NZ First is only able to play such a prominent role in the country’s politics because it has been legitimised by National, Labour Party & ... More >>
Winston Peters Rails Against "Marxists" And Declares "War On Woke"
Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 9:17 am | Socialist Equality Group
Peters promised to carry out a “war on woke", a term which the far-right uses to refer to everything from identity politics & affirmative action programs, to education about the brutal history of colonisation, protections against discrimination, environmental ... More >>
New Zealand Government Seeks Closer Ties With Trump, Modi Administrations
Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 9:27 am | Socialist Equality Group
The visits took place amid a sharp lurch to the right by ruling elites around the world in response to the escalating global economic crisis of capitalism and the US-led drive to imperialist war. New Zealand is embroiled in these developments. More >>
Six Years After The Christchurch Massacre
Wednesday, 19 March 2025, 9:26 am | Socialist Equality Group
The anniversary of New Zealand’s worst mass shooting—which the United Nations designated in 2022 as an International Day to Combat Islamophobia—attracted minimal media coverage. More >>
New Zealand’s Record Of Colonial Oppression Of The Cook Islands
Monday, 17 March 2025, 6:03 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The existential problems facing the Cook Islands are of a global character and cannot be solved within the Cook Islands. Workers across the Pacific must unite with those in Australia, NZ & internationally, in a revolutionary movement to abolish capitalism ... More >>
New Zealand Diplomat Sacked After Criticizing Trump
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 10:42 am | Socialist Equality Group
Goff, appointed in 2022, is a former Labour Party leader, foreign affairs minister and Auckland mayor. The position is one of NZ’s most important diplomatic posts. More >>
New Zealand Government Whips Up Hysteria Over Chinese Naval Exercise In Tasman Sea
Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 8:19 am | Socialist Equality Group
The furore is part of the efforts to justify New Zealand’s integration into US-led war plans against China, which is the main target of US imperialism as it seeks to shore up its global domination. More >>
Worsening Unemployment, Hunger And Homelessness In New Zealand
Saturday, 22 February 2025, 3:07 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Every party in parliament is responsible for the social disaster that is unfolding. More >>
New Zealand Government Refuses To Condemn Trump’s Gaza Takeover
Monday, 17 February 2025, 8:45 am | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand’s alignment with the White House is further underscored by its refusal to oppose Trump’s sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC). More >>
New Zealand Government Alarmed By Cook Islands Deal With China
Thursday, 13 February 2025, 8:00 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The regional imperialist powers, including Australia, New Zealand and France have maintained neo-colonial control over the Southwest Pacific for more than a century, keeping the fragile island nations in a state of dependency with conditions of poverty ... More >>
New Zealand Government Witch-Hunts Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
Monday, 3 February 2025, 8:30 pm | Socialist Equality Group
In a predictable manner, the PSNA’s tactic played directly into the hands of the government and the corporate media, which want to delegitimise and suppress the anti-genocide protests. More >>
New Zealand ACT Party Leader Calls For Privatisations, Rails Against Marxism
Friday, 31 January 2025, 3:09 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Seymour’s speech overshadowed a “State of the Nation” speech by Prime Minister Christopher Luxon the day before, which announced funding cuts to science and innovation and the creation of a new agency to encourage foreign investment. More >>
New Zealand Political Leaders Congratulate Trump
Friday, 24 January 2025, 9:13 am | Socialist Equality Group
Following the obscene spectacle of Trump’s inauguration, in which he enunciated his far-right agenda including mass deportations and imperialist expansionism, New Zealand’s politicians are pitching to “work with” Washington as closely as ... More >>
Government Prepares New Anti-strike Law
Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 8:51 am | Socialist Equality Group
The only way forward is for workers to build a new party that fights for the socialist reorganisation of society, on the basis of human need, not private profit. This is the program of the Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand and the International ... More >>
Foreign Interference Bill Prepares New Attacks On Democratic Rights
Sunday, 12 January 2025, 2:27 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The bipartisan support in parliament for the Foreign Interference Bill is a warning that there is no constituency in the New Zealand ruling class for the maintenance of basic democratic rights. There has been no critical reporting on the bill in the ... More >>
New Zealand Government, Opposition Parties Glorify Deceased Māori Party Founder
Wednesday, 8 January 2025, 8:43 am | Socialist Equality Group
The chorus of praise for Turia underscores the fact that TPM does not represent any real alternative to the political establishment. It is a right-wing party that for the past two decades has represented the interests of indigenous capitalists, who ... More >>
New Zealand Far-Right Government’s Anti-Democratic “Law And Order” Agenda
Sunday, 15 December 2024, 6:55 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The legislation is part of the far-right government’s sweeping “law and order” agenda targeting the most alienated and vulnerable layers of society, including impoverished youth and welfare beneficiaries. Sooner rather than later, the crackdown will extend ... More >>
New Zealand COVID-19 Inquiry Endorses Abandonment Of Elimination Strategy
Thursday, 12 December 2024, 9:02 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The scientific knowledge & resources exist that could eliminate COVID-19 & other preventable diseases. If the elimination strategy initially adopted in New Zealand & China had been implemented on a global scale, the COVID pandemic could have been ... More >>