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Christchurch Terrorist Foreshadowed Mosque Attacks Online Over A Year Before
Thursday, 7 March 2024, 12:35 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock According to a report from the Conversation , republished in the Guardian on February 20, Christchurch fascist gunman Brenton Tarrant posted about his intentions on the website 4chan at least a year before his 2019 deadly ... More >>
New Zealand Foreign Minister Seeks To Block Chinese Influence In Southwest Pacific
Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 9:24 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters undertook a four-day tour of three Pacific Islands states beginning on February 7, hard on the heels of a visit to Australia that saw a strengthening of security and defence ties between ... More >>
Protests Continue As NZ Government Refuses To Condemn Israel’s Genocide
Wednesday, 24 January 2024, 1:27 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By the Socialist Equality Group 23 January 2024 Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/01/23/dtjo-j23.html With barely any media coverage, thousands of people took part in protest actions across New Zealand in recent days, as part of escalating global rallies against Israel’s ... More >>
New Zealand In COVID Surge As Government Plans New Attacks On Public Health
Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 12:05 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 9 January 2024 Original url https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/01/09/hmlv-j09.html Another 44 deaths with COVID-19 were added to New Zealand’s toll over the last week, amid a surge of infections over the summer holiday period. The number of people ... More >>
New Zealand Media Demands More Military Spending
Monday, 8 January 2024, 5:56 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The New Zealand Herald, the country’s major newspaper, published two major articles on Wednesday by reporter David Fisher, under the headlines “NZ Defence Force in crisis—our ships can’t sail, planes can’t fly and soldiers have left in droves” ... More >>
The National Party-led Government’s Agenda Of War And Austerity, And How To Fight It
Sunday, 31 December 2023, 11:02 am | Socialist Equality Group
One month has passed since New Zealand’s conservative National Party formed a coalition government with the right-wing nationalist New Zealand First and the libertarian ACT Parties. This unstable coalition, which took more than five weeks of negotiations ... More >>
Far-right Government Formed In New Zealand
Monday, 27 November 2023, 9:55 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, After 40 days of secret negotiations following New Zealand’s October 14 election, the conservative National Party leader Christopher Luxon yesterday signed a coalition deal to form a government with two widely despised far-right parties, ... More >>
New Zealand Medical Lab Workers Strike Again Over Low Wages
Thursday, 23 November 2023, 11:39 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters More than 1,000 medical laboratory workers in New Zealand held 24-hour strikes on November 17 and 20, with workers in different parts of the country striking on different days. The workers, including scientists, technicians, and phlebotomists, ... More >>
WSWS Speaks With Former Radio New Zealand Journalist Mick Hall About Being Smeared As A “Russian Agent”
Saturday, 4 November 2023, 3:00 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters and John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke with journalist Mick Hall, who was the victim of a hysterical anti-Russia campaign that erupted in June. Hall lost his job at Radio New Zealand ... More >>
Public Meeting In Wellington: Stop Israel’s Genocide Against GazaBy The Socialist Equality Group
Tuesday, 31 October 2023, 9:07 am | Socialist Equality Group
The Socialist Equality Group and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality in New Zealand is holding a public meeting calling for an end to the genocidal war being unleashed on the Palestinian population in Gaza. The meeting will be on ... More >>
Thousands Protest Across New Zealand Against Israel’s Genocide In Gaza
Thursday, 26 October 2023, 12:14 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Over the past fortnight thousands of people in New Zealand have joined the global protests against the Israeli government’s genocidal bombing of Gaza. More than 5,700 people, including 2,360 children, have been killed and tens of thousands injured ... More >>
Why The Working Class Turned Against Labour In New Zealand’s Election
Sunday, 22 October 2023, 6:14 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Following the Labour Party government’s historic defeat in New Zealand’s October 14 election, the corporate media quickly declared that voters had “moved sharply to the right” (Washington Post) delivering what the UK Guardian called “a surge ... More >>
Landslide Defeat For Labour In New Zealand Election
Tuesday, 17 October 2023, 3:04 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 16 October 2023 Original url https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/10/16/arcd-o16.html New Zealand’s Labour Party government suffered an historic defeat in Saturday’s election. According to preliminary results, Labour’s support virtually halved from ... More >>
Capitalist Parties Promise Sweeping Attacks On Working Class In New Zealand Election
Sunday, 8 October 2023, 6:56 pm | Socialist Equality Group
With the voting period for New Zealand’s October 14 election now open, campaigning has entered its final critical phase. The political establishment is facing a historic crisis, fuelled by intensifying geo-strategic tensions and escalating war threats, ... More >>
Next Government Could Include Right-wing Nationalist NZ First
Sunday, 1 October 2023, 7:50 pm | Socialist Equality Group
On Monday, opposition National Party leader Christopher Luxon—widely expected to become New Zealand’s prime minister after the October 14 election—announced that he could form a coalition government with both the far-right ACT Party and the ... More >>
New Zealand Election Debate Points To Bipartisan Agenda Of Austerity And War
Friday, 22 September 2023, 1:33 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 21 September 2023 Original url https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/21/hexy-s21.html The first televised debate of the New Zealand election campaign, between incumbent Labour Party Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and opposition National Party leader Christopher ... More >>
Socialist Equality Group Statement On The 2023 Election
Monday, 18 September 2023, 8:18 am | Socialist Equality Group
Oppose all capitalist parties in the New Zealand election! Fight against war and for world socialism! Build the Socialist Equality Group! Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/15/xdzo-s15.html The New Zealand election ... More >>
New Zealand Senior Doctors Hold Nationwide Strike
Friday, 8 September 2023, 10:36 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock A nationwide strike of senior doctors and dentists working in New Zealand’s public hospitals went ahead on September 5 after failed mediation between Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand and the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists ... More >>
The Rise Of The Far-Right ACT Party
Sunday, 27 August 2023, 11:08 am | Socialist Equality Group
As New Zealand approaches an election on October 14, the ruling Labour Party is polling below 30 percent and there are growing predictions that it will be defeated by the right-wing opposition National Party and its ally, the far-right ACT Party. ... More >>
The Right-wing Record Of The New Zealand Māori Party
Thursday, 24 August 2023, 12:13 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock The New Zealand ruling elite is heading towards a crisis election on October 14, with the two major parties that have buttressed capitalism for almost a century, Labour and National, deeply unpopular. Labour has crashed to its worst ... More >>