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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 >>
New Zealand Government’s Treaty Of Waitangi “Debate” Stokes Racial Divisions
Thursday, 26 September 2024, 7:30 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The government is seeking to use Māori as scapegoats for the worsening social crisis that it is inflicting on the entire working class. More >>
Wellington Rail Workers Reject Proposed Attacks On Wages And Conditions: Form A Rank-and-file Committee To Fight Back!
Saturday, 24 August 2024, 7:09 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The unanimous rejection of Transdev-Hyundai Rotem’s offer demonstrates that workers are prepared to fight back against the attacks on their wages & conditions. The Socialist Equality Group warns, however, that the RMTU has no intention whatsoever of carrying ... More >>
Luxon Reaffirms Support For Anti-China AUKUS Military Pact
Friday, 23 August 2024, 9:23 am | Socialist Equality Group
During a visit to Australia last week, New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon made clear his National Party-led government’s commitment to strengthening military and intelligence ties with Canberra and Washington, as the US ramps up its threats ... More >>
Hundreds Of Thousands Abused In State And Religious Facilities In New Zealand
Wednesday, 21 August 2024, 7:56 pm | Socialist Equality Group
While the royal commission’s report calls for police investigations and prosecutions for past crimes, it is clear that the political and religious leaders responsible for the systematic cruelty inflicted on generations of young people will not be held ... More >>
Labour Party Feigns Opposition To Anti-China AUKUS Military Pact
Monday, 12 August 2024, 1:55 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The National-led coalition, which includes the nationalist NZ First Party and the far-right ACT Party, has ramped up its anti-China stance. More >>
Wellington Rail Workers In The Dark Over Union-Company Negotiations
Saturday, 10 August 2024, 6:38 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The Socialist Equality Group (SEG) calls on Wellington rail workers to build a rank-and-file committee to fight for demands that address their urgent needs—including an immediate pay increase of at least 30 percent to make up for years of real wage cuts. More >>
New Zealand Health System Faces Steep Funding Cuts, Possible Privatisation
Wednesday, 31 July 2024, 11:47 am | Socialist Equality Group
In a post-cabinet press conference on July 22, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said there was a lack of “performance management” at Health NZ, which he described as an overly centralised system with a “massive bureaucracy” and financial mismanagement. More >>
On NZ's Worsening Unemployment And Poverty
Thursday, 18 July 2024, 6:16 pm | Socialist Equality Group
All the parliamentary parties bear responsibility for the worsening social disaster. More >>
Racist Attack Leaves Chinese-New Zealand Teenager Badly Injured
Tuesday, 16 July 2024, 7:44 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The focus on the actions of the driver is an attempt to divert attention from the issue of racist attacks on Chinese and other Asian people. More >>
Chinese Premier Li Visits New Zealand To Counter US War Drive
Sunday, 16 June 2024, 8:06 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Li’s visit to New Zealand was the first by a Chinese premier since 2017. He held talks with Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and business leaders, highlighting New Zealand’s heavy dependence on trade with China, which took about 27 percent of ... More >>
New Zealand Pro-Palestine Protester Ends 19-day Hunger Strike
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 6:02 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The anti-war movement can only move forward to the extent that the working class takes its own action, in opposition to Labour and the entire capitalist political establishment, including the trade union apparatus and the pseudo-left organisations ... More >>
New Zealand Government Presents Austerity Budget Amid Nationwide Protests
Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 2:11 pm | Socialist Equality Group
After months of sweeping attacks on the social position of working people, the budget was anticipated with some foreboding. The government is carrying out a scorched earth policy targeting funding cuts of 7.5 percent across the public sector with over 5,000 ... More >>
Campaign To Free Ukrainian Socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk Discussed On Te Upoko o te Ika Radio
Friday, 31 May 2024, 7:57 pm | Socialist Equality Group
On May 24, John Braddock and Tom Peters, World Socialist Web Site writers and members of the Socialist Equality Group (SEG) in New Zealand, spoke with Dean Hapeta (aka Te Kupu) on his radio show Te Kupu Nā Te Kupu, on the Wellington Māori station ... More >>
New Zealand Actor Goes On Hunger Strike Over Government’s Complicity In Gaza Genocide
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 12:28 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Will Alexander, a teacher and former actor on the popular New Zealand TV series Shortland Street is over a week into a hunger strike which he has vowed to continue until the government stops supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. More >>
New Caledonia Unrest Continues Amid Massive French Security Operation
Wednesday, 22 May 2024, 4:18 pm | Socialist Equality Group
French President Emmanuel Macron is flying to New Caledonia today in a direct attempt to shut down riots and unrest that have enveloped the colony for the past eight days. Macron said the main objective was to “install” a “dialogue mission” to resume ... More >>
What Is Behind The Turmoil In The New Zealand Green Party?
Sunday, 19 May 2024, 1:19 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The instability comes as the party tries to refresh its brand after six years of being part of a right-wing, pro-imperialist government with both the Labour Party and, from 2017-2020, the far-right NZ First Party. More >>
