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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 >>
New Zealand Nurses To Hold Nationwide Strike
Saturday, 30 November 2024, 6:20 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The fight for free and universal health care must be linked with the political struggle for the socialist reorganisation of society. Workers cannot limit their demands to what the parliamentary parties and union bureaucrats claim is “realistic” or ... More >>
New Zealand Government’s Racially Divisive Treaty Principles Bill Passes First Reading
Saturday, 23 November 2024, 8:01 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By voting for the bill and allowing it to proceed to the select committee, the coalition parties are enabling ACT—an extremely unpopular party that received just 8.6 percent in the 2023 election—to dominate political discourse, posturing as the party of ... More >>
Far-right Commentator Candace Owens Barred From Entering Australia
Tuesday, 5 November 2024, 4:47 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Owens is still due to speak in neighbouring New Zealand on November 14, although the opposition Labour Party is calling for her to be banned from entering that country. More >>
Commonwealth Summit Dominated By Tensions Over Climate Crisis And War Preparations Against China
Thursday, 31 October 2024, 8:01 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The association of 56 members of the former British Empire, covering 2.7 billion people, once regarded as an imperial relic, has assumed more significance in recent years amid escalating global tensions, wars in Europe and the Middle East and the ... More >>
Reject Sellout Of Wellington Rail Workers!
Monday, 30 September 2024, 1:04 pm | Socialist Equality Group
According to government statistics, annual inflation in the 12 months to June was 3.3 percent, while household living costs increased 5.4 percent, driven by soaring costs for insurance, interest rates and fuel. More >>
