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COVID-19 Spreading As Schools Reopen
Monday, 22 November 2021, 6:26 am | Socialist Equality Group
On Wednesday, schools reopened in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, for all remaining primary and secondary students. The top three high school year levels returned to in-person classes late last month. Early childcare centres can now increase the ... More >>
New Zealand Government Lifts More Restrictions, Says COVID-19 Will Spread Nationwide
Friday, 12 November 2021, 1:50 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters 11 November 2021, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/11/11/reop-n11.html On Monday, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that her Labour Party-led government expects to end the lockdown in Auckland at the end of the month. Despite ... More >>
COVID Cases Surge As Government Plans To Lift More Restrictions
Friday, 5 November 2021, 10:41 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters On Monday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced an “in principle” decision to remove more COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city. On November 10, retail businesses and public facilities such as libraries ... More >>
"Recovery 29" Whitewashes New Zealand Government’s Cover-up Of Pike River Mine Disaster
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 10:30 am | Socialist Equality Group
The documentary Recovery 29, directed by Sofia Wenborn, was aired on Prime Television in New Zealand on October 26 and added to the Sky Go streaming website. More >>
New Zealand Government Sending Thousands Back To School During Worsening COVID-19 Outbreak
Friday, 22 October 2021, 10:31 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters New Zealand’s Labour Party-led government is systematically removing lockdown restrictions in Auckland, the centre of an expanding COVID-19 outbreak, and telling the population that it must accept a major increase in cases. On Wednesday, ... More >>
No Retreat From Elimination! Mobilise The New Zealand And International Working Class To Defeat COVID-19
Monday, 18 October 2021, 9:47 am | Socialist Equality Group
The Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand is holding an online public meeting on Saturday, October 23, at 4:30 p.m. (NZ time) to discuss the urgent need for working people to organise to fight for a scientific strategy to eliminate COVID-19 nationally, ... More >>
New Zealand COVID-19 Outbreak Grows After Restrictions Eased
Wednesday, 13 October 2021, 10:56 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters In the week since Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that New Zealand would be “transitioning” away from its previous strategy of eliminating COVID-19, with more restrictions in Auckland to be lifted, the outbreak of the highly-infectious ... More >>
No Retreat From Elimination! The New Zealand And International Working Class Must Fight To Stamp Out COVID-19
Saturday, 9 October 2021, 5:39 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The announcement by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern that her Labour Party-led government will no longer pursue an elimination strategy for COVID-19 has provoked considerable shock and anger, as well as significant confusion. Internationally, ... More >>
New Zealand Government Abandons Elimination Policy For COVID-19
Thursday, 7 October 2021, 10:36 am | Socialist Equality Group
by Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 6 October 2021, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/10/06/elim-o06.html Since New Zealand first went into a nationwide lockdown in March 2020, it has been one of a very small handful of countries with a stated policy of eliminating COVID-19 ... More >>
Teacher And Advocate Opposes Reopening Of Early Childcare During COVID-19 Outbreak
Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 11:54 am | Socialist Equality Group
On September 22, New Zealand’s Labour Party-led government eased the COVID-19 lockdown in Auckland from “level 4,” the strictest level, to “level 3.” More than 200,000 people are estimated to have returned to workplaces, with restrictions such ... More >>
New Zealand Government Eases COVID-19 Lockdown In Auckland
Friday, 24 September 2021, 10:41 am | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 23 September 2021, original url https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/23/auck-s23.html On Wednesday the lockdown in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, was eased from “alert level 4” to “level 3,” despite new cases of the highly infectious ... More >>
New Zealand PM “Pleased To See” AUKUS Military Pact
Thursday, 23 September 2021, 7:02 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 22 September 2021, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/22/nzau-s22.html The Labour Party-Greens coalition government in New Zealand has cautiously welcomed the AUKUS military pact announced on September 16 by US President Joe Biden and the ... More >>
New Zealand Pseudo-left Daily Blog Promotes Wuhan Lab Lie
Thursday, 9 September 2021, 3:32 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The trade union-funded Daily Blog, the most significant publication of New Zealand’s liberal and pseudo-left commentators, last month posted the latest in a long-running series of blogs promoting the lie that the deadly COVID-19 virus originally escaped ... More >>
Rising hospitalisations in New Zealand’s Delta outbreak
Thursday, 2 September 2021, 10:18 am | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group On Wednesday the New Zealand government reported another 75 cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19, bringing the total infections from the current outbreak to 687. Almost all are in the biggest city, Auckland, with ... More >>
New Zealand Pseudo-lefts Cover Their Tracks Over Afghan War
Saturday, 28 August 2021, 4:10 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The historic debacle of the US and its allies in Afghanistan has sharply exposed the predatory nature of the imperialist war, and demolished the fabrications used by all the political parties and individuals that promoted it. The invasion was a ... More >>
New Zealand Ruling Elite Whitewashes Its 'Contribution' To Afghan War
Sunday, 22 August 2021, 4:07 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The New Zealand government this week dispatched an Air Force Hercules plane with 40 military personnel to Afghanistan to evacuate over 100 NZ citizens, plus foreign nationals and Afghanis who collaborated with the allied occupation of the country. ... More >>
New Zealand locked down after Delta cases identified
Thursday, 19 August 2021, 11:12 am | Socialist Equality Group
On Tuesday evening, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, and the Coromandel region, will be placed in lockdown for seven days, and the rest of the country for three days, after a 58-year-old Auckland man tested ... More >>
New Zealand Government Lies About Pike River Mine Re-entry Promises
Friday, 13 August 2021, 10:56 am | Socialist Equality Group
Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 13 August 2021, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/12/pike-a12.html The Pike River Recovery Agency (PRRA) in New Zealand is continuing work on sealing the underground Pike River coal mine, where 29 workers lost their lives in a series ... More >>
New Zealand Government’s Proposed “hate Speech” Law Attacks Free Speech
Thursday, 12 August 2021, 9:17 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock Against a backdrop of rising social tensions, widening inequality and emerging resistance by the working class to austerity, New Zealand’s Labour Party-Greens government is preparing new “hate speech” laws that will ... More >>
Union Sells Out Wellington Bus Drivers
Sunday, 1 August 2021, 4:46 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Following an extremely tense meeting on Thursday, July 29, bus drivers in Wellington voted narrowly to approve a sellout collective employment agreement (CEA) hatched by NZ Bus and the Tramways Union. Union secretary Kevin O’Sullivan told Stuff that ... More >>
