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New Zealand Government Refuses To Condemn Illegal US Bombing Of Iran
Monday, 30 June 2025, 9:24 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The prime minister’s statements are an endorsement of the gangster-like methods of the Trump administration, which is working with Israel to topple Iran’s regime and to control all the resources of the Middle East. More >>
A Different Kind Of Power Whitewashes Jacinda Ardern’s Right-wing, Pro-Imperialist Government
Thursday, 26 June 2025, 9:41 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The embrace of Ardern is part of increasingly desperate efforts to reassure people that all is not lost, that the capitalist system can be saved if only it is given a kinder, more sympathetic face. More >>
New Zealand Withdraws Millions In Aid From Cook Islands
Thursday, 26 June 2025, 9:14 am | Socialist Equality Group
NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters informed the Cook Islands government of the decision early this month, but it only became public on June 19 after a Cook Islands news outlet saw its brief mention in a government budget document. More >>
New Zealand Government Feigns Neutrality In US-Israeli War Against Iran
Sunday, 22 June 2025, 9:17 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The entire political establishment is nervous about widespread anti-war sentiment in New Zealand, which has been expressed in repeated protests against the genocide in Gaza. More >>
Charges Laid Over Deaths In New Zealand Hostel Fire
Friday, 20 June 2025, 8:40 am | Socialist Equality Group
Detective Sergeant Timothy Leitch said the people charged were “involved with the management and operation of the building, and police allege they were responsible for aspects of the building’s fire safety system. More >>
New Zealand Rich List Exceeds $100 Billion Amid Cost-Of-Living Crisis
Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 11:56 am | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand is already an extremely unequal society. According to Statistics NZ’s Household Economic Survey in 2021, the richest 5 percent of individuals owned 43.1 percent of the country’s wealth, while the bottom 50 percent held just 2.1 percent. More >>
Families Continue Fight To Expose Cover-Up Of Pike River Mine Disaster
Saturday, 7 June 2025, 5:56 pm | Socialist Equality Group
“The world is watching this case today, as they have done all the way thorough. All we’re trying to do here is [bring back] confidence that there is a justice system in New Zealand,” says family member Bernie Monk. More >>
Worsening Poverty And Social Misery In New Zealand
Saturday, 31 May 2025, 7:31 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The government is seeking to solve the worsening economic crisis by ramping up the exploitation of the working class, while protecting the fortunes of the super-rich. More >>
NZ's Budget For Austerity And War
Saturday, 31 May 2025, 6:31 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The money for war comes at the direct expense of the working class. Notably, the govt expects to “save” $12.8 billion over four years by cancelling 33 separate pay equity negotiations, which were to increase pay for hundreds of thousands of ... More >>
New Zealand Greens Posture As “Socialist” With Alternative Budget
Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 1:12 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The real target of these far-right denunciations is not the Greens, but the working class and young people, who are moving to the left in response to soaring social inequality, and the threat of fascism and world war, and are increasingly attracted ... More >>
New Zealand Government Seeks To Ban Social Media For Under-16s
Friday, 16 May 2025, 9:03 am | Socialist Equality Group
Luxon and other politicians and media pundits have spent the past fortnight professing concern for the mental health and safety of young people. More >>
NZ Government Blocks “Pay Equity” Claims For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Workers
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 1:33 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The amendment was announced on May 6 by Workplace Relations Minister Brooke Van Velden, from the far-right ACT Party. It was rushed through parliament the next day under anti-democratic “urgency” provisions to limit public discussion and scrutiny. More >>
Daily Blog Backs Compulsory Military Service
Saturday, 10 May 2025, 10:37 am | Socialist Equality Group
While advertising itself as “liberal” and “left wing,” the Daily Blog promotes the same nationalist and militarist agenda as the entire parliamentary establishment, the union bureaucracy and the corporate media. More >>
New Zealand Media Proposes Compulsory Military Training
Tuesday, 6 May 2025, 12:09 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The real purpose of CMT, as with the record increase in military spending, is to prepare for imperialist war to redivide the world. The ruling class is seeking to instil young people with nationalism and unquestioning obedience to authority, so ... More >>
On The Doctors Strike
Sunday, 4 May 2025, 1:48 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The austerity measures imposed by his government—and the previous Labour Party-led government—have produced the crisis of unmet need. More >>
New Zealand Ruling Elite Escalates Preparations For War
Friday, 2 May 2025, 8:17 am | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand’s National Party-led coalition government recently released a multi-billion dollar Defence Capability Plan that will nearly double military spending from just over 1 percent to 2 percent of GDP within eight years. This involves $NZ9 billion ... More >>
New Zealand Senior Doctors Vote For National Strike
Thursday, 24 April 2025, 10:44 am | Socialist Equality Group
The strike is part of a growing rebellion by health workers internationally against attacks by capitalist governments, led by the US Trump administration, on public health services. More >>
New Zealand Parliament Votes Down Contentious “Treaty Principles” Bill
Tuesday, 22 April 2025, 11:43 am | Socialist Equality Group
The bill’s primary objective was to stoke racial divisions as a means of diverting social anger in the working class over the government’s escalating attacks on living standards and public services. More >>
Far-Right Smear Campaign Continues Against New Zealand Green MP
Tuesday, 15 April 2025, 9:15 pm | Socialist Equality Group
The demonisation of Doyle is part of the National Party-led government’s efforts to stoke divisions based on race, gender and sexuality, and to divert public attention from its historic assault on workers’ living standards and preparations for war. More >>
New Zealand Government Downplays Trump’s Tariffs, Despite Business Fears
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 8:04 pm | Socialist Equality Group
Tariffs express the madness of the capitalist system, in which the world remains divided into rival nation states and imperialist powers, which are determined to strengthen their grip on natural resources and supply chains at the expense of their ... More >>
