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New Zealand Greens Candidate Fought In SAS During Afghanistan War
Saturday, 22 August 2026, 6:40 pm | Socialist Equality Group
To describe New Zealand’s role in Afghanistan as “looking after” people and “leaving the place better than we found it” is a grotesque lie. More >>
Job Cuts Planned On Wellington Rail Network
Tuesday, 18 August 2026, 2:07 pm | Socialist Equality Group
A union notice to Wellington train workers said a reduction in PO roles and onboard staffing was “unacceptable” and “is unsafe and creates risks to staff, passengers, and members of the public.” More >>
New Zealand Government In Turmoil After Failed Leadership Challenge
Saturday, 15 August 2026, 3:23 pm | Socialist Equality Group
If the right-wing coalition does not return to office, it would be the first one-term government since the 1970s. More >>
NZ First Party Youth Leader Linked To Neo-Nazi Groups
Sunday, 9 August 2026, 6:44 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Like far-right parties internationally, NZ First is seeking to divert growing anger over the worsening social disaster in a reactionary and nationalist direction in order to divide and break up any opposition movement of the working class. More >>
On The Increase In The Cost Of Living
Friday, 7 August 2026, 1:46 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The increase was mostly driven by higher fuel prices—petrol prices rose by 27.5 percent in the past year and diesel by 71 percent—due to the unprovoked and criminal US-Israeli war against Iran. More >>
NZ Foreign Minister Tells Chinese-Born MP: “Go Back To Your Own Country”
Wednesday, 5 August 2026, 2:07 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Peters leads the right-wing nationalist NZ First Party, which is part of the National Party-led coalition government and is making anti-immigrant xenophobia central to its campaign for the November 7 election. More >>
Green Party AGM Postures Against Social Inequality, Silent On War
Friday, 31 July 2026, 3:28 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Health, education and other public services are being starved of funds in order to keep taxes low for the rich and divert money into the military. More >>
New Zealand First Campaigns On Anti-Immigrant Chauvinism And Militarism
Saturday, 25 July 2026, 4:56 pm | Socialist Equality Group
NZ First has been advocating such a policy for many years, as New Zealand, a minor imperialist power, has become increasingly integrated into the US-led militarisation of the Pacific region. More >>
Wages Plummet In New Zealand
Sunday, 19 July 2026, 3:14 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The OECD report is an official confirmation of what tens of millions of workers experience daily: that capitalism is waging a relentless war on their living standards. More >>
New Zealand Government Restricts Access To Emergency Housing For Homeless People
Wednesday, 15 July 2026, 9:16 am | Socialist Equality Group
Reducing access to emergency housing is one component of a sweeping austerity program designed to make the working class pay for the increasingly severe economic downturn, exacerbated by the ongoing, illegal US war against Iran. More >>
NZ Herald Glorifies Man Who Died Fighting In Ukraine’s Fascist Azov Brigade
Wednesday, 8 July 2026, 11:56 am | Socialist Equality Group
The Putin regime’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 was reactionary, rooted in Great Russian nationalism and serving the interests of the Russian oligarchy—but it was provoked by three decades of NATO expansion and relentless US encirclement of Russia. More >>
Labour’s Hollow Promises In Lead Up To November Election
Monday, 6 July 2026, 7:52 am | Socialist Equality Group
Labour is running what the media calls a “small-target” campaign: criticising the government’s funding cuts while revealing little about Labour’s own positions. More >>
NZ Greens Advance Fraudulent Wealth Tax Policy
Tuesday, 30 June 2026, 10:12 am | Socialist Equality Group
The only way to stop the descent into world war and mass poverty, is to build a party of the working class, based on the socialist and internationalist program of the Trotskyist movement. More >>
Call For Inquiry Into Dropping Of Charges Over New Zealand’s Pike River Mine Disaster
Saturday, 27 June 2026, 4:25 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The Pike River disaster implicates the company’s management, the state regulators who allowed the mine to operate, and successive governments that dismantled the specialist mines inspectorate. More >>
Company, Union Gag Workers From Speaking Publicly On Train Crash
Wednesday, 24 June 2026, 12:45 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Passenger train services on the Johnsonville line in Wellington resumed on June 17 after being suspended following a crash on June 6. Six people were injured including both crew members, the driver and the train manager, who suffered serious head and ... More >>
New Book Questions Official Finding That Fascist Brenton Tarrant Acted Alone In Christchurch Massacre
Saturday, 20 June 2026, 3:14 pm | Socialist Equality Group
He Told Us provides a scathing critique of the Royal Commission’s narrow terms of reference, its suppression of evidence and the gaping holes and contradictions in its report. Yet it does not explain why the Commission proceeded as it did. More >>
Australian And New Zealand Governments Boost Anti-China Military Integration
Thursday, 18 June 2026, 3:01 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The meeting coincided with a hyped-up anti-China campaign by both governments after Beijing barred four New Zealand MPs from entering China for a year, in retaliation for the politicians’ visit to Taipei. More >>
Prominent New Zealand Entertainer Lynda Topp Denounces Government’s Military Budget
Thursday, 11 June 2026, 5:26 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The coalition government, which includes the far-right ACT and NZ First, and the opposition Labour Party have agreed to double the military budget from 1 to 2 percent of GDP. More >>
New Zealand Government Introduces Anti-Transgender Legislation
Monday, 1 June 2026, 8:04 am | Socialist Equality Group
The bill goes against advice by the government’s own Law Commission, which delivered an extensive report last September recommending legal protections for transgender people. More >>
New Zealand Budget Attacks Workers And Students, Boosts The Military
Sunday, 31 May 2026, 9:14 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The assault embodied in the budget can only be opposed through the mobilisation of workers, students, beneficiaries, and youth, independently of all the capitalist parties and union bureaucracies. More >>
