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New Zealand doctors prepare nationwide strike
Tuesday, 15 January 2019, 11:18 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 14 January 2019, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/01/14/nzdo-j14.html More >>
New Zealand’s public healthcare crisis worsens
Thursday, 10 January 2019, 12:01 pm | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand’s Labour Party-led coalition government took office in October 2017 promising to address the severe crisis caused by more than a decade of cuts to the public health system. The previous National Party government underfunded healthcare ... More >>
Social crisis worsens under Labour Party-led government
Saturday, 29 December 2018, 10:36 am | Socialist Equality Group
When the Labour Party-led government was installed in October 2017, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared that her priority would be to turn around homelessness and child poverty figures. Deputy Prime Minister and NZ First leader Winston Peters promised ... More >>
Celebrating 80 years of the Fourth International
Thursday, 13 December 2018, 11:27 am | Socialist Equality Group
By the Socialist Equality Group 11 December 2018, url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/11/well-d11.html More >>
World Socialist Web Site's David North to speak
Friday, 7 December 2018, 7:55 pm | Socialist Equality Group
David North, chairperson of the World Socialist Web Site editorial board and a leading member of the International Committee of the Fourth International, the world Trotskyist movement, will speak at a public meeting in Wellington on Sunday, December 9, at ... More >>
New Zealand teachers’ struggle at a crossroads
Monday, 3 December 2018, 10:13 am | Socialist Equality Group
On November 23, the Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) announced that a majority of its 17,000 secondary school teacher members had voted for a one-day strike early next year, after rejecting a second pay offer from the Labour Party-led coalition ... More >>
Intensifying US pressure on NZ government over China
Friday, 30 November 2018, 3:15 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Following US Vice President Mike Pence’s vitriolic attack on China at the recent Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit, divisions have erupted into public view within the New Zealand ruling elite over the US-China confrontation More >>
Anti-Chinese campaign escalates in New Zealand
Monday, 19 November 2018, 10:28 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 17 November 2018, (original url https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/17/nzch-n17.html More >>
Fiji First Party retains power in sham election
Sunday, 18 November 2018, 12:27 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Fiji First Party retains power in sham election By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group 16 November 2018, original url https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/16/fiji-n16.html More >>
Rail union enforces another pro-company pay deal
Monday, 12 November 2018, 8:34 am | Socialist Equality Group
The Rail and Maritime Transport Union (RMTU) has forced through its third pro-company wage contract with multinational companies Transdev and Hyundai Rotem (THR) covering 417 rail workers in Wellington, the New Zealand capital. More >>
Bus union ends Wellington strike
Sunday, 4 November 2018, 12:26 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Bus union ends Wellington strike By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 3 November 2018 (original url http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/03/nbus-n03.html ) More >>
NZ teachers’ union moves to call off strikes
Thursday, 1 November 2018, 11:33 am | Socialist Equality Group
On October 26, the New Zealand Education Institute (NZEI), which covers primary and pre-school teachers, joined with the Ministry of Education (MoE) to seek urgent facilitation from the government’s Employment Relations Authority to settle their long-running ... More >>
New Zealand military covered up killing of Afghan children
Wednesday, 24 October 2018, 9:00 am | Socialist Equality Group
On October 15 the magazine North and South published allegations that the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) covered up the killing of two Afghan children by a member of the elite Special Air Service (SAS) unit. More >>
On the National Party donations scandal
Sunday, 21 October 2018, 11:04 am | Socialist Equality Group
On the National Party donations scandal By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 20 October 2018, original url http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/20/newz-o20.html More >>
Celebrating 80th anniversary of Fourth International
Saturday, 20 October 2018, 4:22 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Eighty Years of the Fourth International (1938-2018): The class struggle, revolution and socialism in the 21st century More >>
An anti-democratic law
Tuesday, 16 October 2018, 11:33 am | Socialist Equality Group
A law passed by New Zealand’s Labour Party-led coalition government, which came into effect this month, significantly strengthens the anti-democratic powers of Customs officials to search people entering the country. More >>
US ambassador to NZ continues public attacks on China
Saturday, 13 October 2018, 12:07 pm | Socialist Equality Group
US ambassador to New Zealand continues public attacks on China By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group More >>
NZ government bans “foreigners” from buying houses
Friday, 12 October 2018, 9:12 am | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand government bans “foreigners” from buying houses By Sam Price, Socialist Equality Group 11 October 2018 (original url: http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/11/nzfb-o11.html ) More >>
Ardern's false facade of “hope” and “kindness”
Wednesday, 10 October 2018, 11:19 am | Socialist Equality Group
The attendance of New Zealand’s Labour Party Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at the United Nations assembly late last month has been lauded as a triumph in media commentary at home and abroad. More >>
New Zealand primary teachers reject sellout pay offer
Sunday, 30 September 2018, 4:57 pm | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand primary teachers reject sellout pay offer By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 29 September 2018 On September 26, the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI), the primary teachers’ union, announced that teachers and principals had voted “resoundingly” ... More >>
