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Budget gives billions to military, starves public services
Monday, 3 June 2019, 1:53 pm | Socialist Equality Group
"Wellbeing" budget gives billions to the military, starves public services More >>
Break from Labour and the unions! Unite the working class
Wednesday, 29 May 2019, 3:19 pm | Socialist Equality Group
About 52,000 teachers and some principals held New Zealand’s biggest-ever education sector strike on Wednesday, involving every state-run school in the country. It is the first time primary and secondary teachers have held a joint strike. Mass protests ... More >>
NZ media to censor coverage of Christchurch terrorist trial
Saturday, 25 May 2019, 12:37 pm | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand’s major media outlets—TVNZ, Stuff, Mediaworks, NZME and Radio NZ—signed an unprecedented agreement on May 1 to self-censor their coverage of the trial of Brenton Tarrant, who is accused of killing 51 people in terrorist attacks on two ... More >>
New Zealand PM leads global Internet censorship campaign
Sunday, 19 May 2019, 3:31 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The so-called “ Christchurch Call ” summit in Paris on Wednesday, led by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron, marked a significant escalation of the drive by governments throughout the world to censor ... More >>
Government’s promises to combat child poverty exposed
Friday, 17 May 2019, 11:53 am | Socialist Equality Group
Statistics released last month point to growing child poverty and deepening social inequality under the Labour-NZ First-Greens coalition government, a right-wing formation installed in October 2017. More >>
NZ Labour government rules out capital gains tax
Tuesday, 14 May 2019, 6:07 pm | Socialist Equality Group
13 May 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/13/nzta-m13.html More >>
Free Assange NZ denounces hypocrisy
Sunday, 12 May 2019, 3:57 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Free Assange NZ denounces hypocrisy at World Press Freedom Day event By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 11 May 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/11/assa-m11.html More >>
Wellington rally demands freedom for Julian Assange
Tuesday, 16 April 2019, 11:28 am | Socialist Equality Group
The Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) took part in a rally in Wellington on Sunday called by Free Assange NZ, a group of WikiLeaks supporters. Protesters gathered outside the US embassy and marched to the nearby British High Commission. More >>
Royal Commission set to whitewash fascist murders in Chch
Thursday, 11 April 2019, 3:09 pm | Socialist Equality Group
On Monday, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the terms of reference for the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the March 15 Christchurch fascist attack in which 50 Muslim worshippers were killed. More >>
New Zealand fascist killer appears in court
Tuesday, 9 April 2019, 9:14 am | Socialist Equality Group
Accused mass murderer Brenton Tarrant made his second court appearance in New Zealand on Friday following the terrorist attack at two Christchurch mosques on March 15. He faces 50 murder charges and 39 counts of attempted murder. A police statement ... More >>
After fascist attack, NZ teacher unions cancel strike action
Wednesday, 3 April 2019, 3:58 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group 2 April 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/02/nzte-a02.html More >>
Remembrance service held for New Zealand terror victims
Monday, 1 April 2019, 9:51 am | Socialist Equality Group
Around 20,000 people attended a remembrance service at Hagley Park in Christchurch yesterday for the victims of the March 15 terrorist attack on the Al Noor and Linwood mosques, carried out by Australian fascist Brenton Tarrant. The gunman murdered 50 ... More >>
Why was the Christchurch terror attack not prevented?
Thursday, 28 March 2019, 3:05 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Monday’s episode of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Four Corners” program, “The Christchurch Massacre and the Rise of Right-wing Extremism,” raised serious unanswered questions about how fascist and white supremacist Brenton Tarrant ... More >>
Against banning the Christchurch terrorist's manifesto
Wednesday, 27 March 2019, 10:32 am | Socialist Equality Group
The manifesto by Australian fascist Brenton Tarrant, who killed 50 people and injured the same number in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, has been officially suppressed in New Zealand. More >>
New Zealand and Australia stoke tensions with Turkey
Tuesday, 26 March 2019, 4:53 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 25 March 2019 url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/25/turk-m25.html More >>
On the glorification of Jacinda Ardern
Friday, 22 March 2019, 11:16 am | Socialist Equality Group
Following the March 15 terrorist attack by Australian fascist Brenton Tarrant, who killed 50 people in two Christchurch mosques motivated by hatred of immigrants and Muslims, the political establishment and media in New Zealand, Australia, the US ... More >>
Warnings of New Zealand neo-Nazi attack were ignored
Thursday, 21 March 2019, 9:10 am | Socialist Equality Group
Following last Friday’s mass killing at two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch, which claimed 50 lives, tens of thousands of ordinary people have attended vigils to show their grief and outrage and to express solidarity with the Muslim ... More >>
NZ terrorist attack and the international danger of fascism
Tuesday, 19 March 2019, 9:36 am | Socialist Equality Group
The death toll from last Friday’s fascist terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand was revised upward to 50 over the weekend. The youngest person killed was a three-year-old boy. Thirty-four people remained in hospital on Sunday, with ... More >>
Fascist terrorists murder 49 in Christchurch
Saturday, 16 March 2019, 8:25 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Forty-nine people were killed and another 48 injured in a horrifying terrorist attack yesterday afternoon on two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch. The attack is by far the largest mass shooting and the most severe act of terrorism in New Zealand’s ... More >>
Crucial evidence from Pike River mine disaster missing
Thursday, 14 March 2019, 9:50 am | Socialist Equality Group
Family members of some of the men killed in New Zealand’s 2010 Pike River Coal (PRC) mine disaster have denounced the failure by police and the Department of Labour (now called WorkSafe) to keep track of evidence that could hold vital information ... More >>