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New Zealand Rail Union Enters Talks Ahead Of National Strike
Saturday, 4 December 2021, 5:31 pm | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group The New Zealand Rail and Maritime Transport Union (RMTU) entered facilitated mediation with state-owned KiwiRail on Monday in a bid to avert two rail strikes by 2,500 workers on December 16 and 17. The strikes, ... More >>
New Zealand Opposition Picks New Right-wing Leader
Friday, 3 December 2021, 10:39 am | Socialist Equality Group
On Tuesday, New Zealand’s main opposition National Party installed Christopher Luxon as its new leader—the fourth person to lead the conservative party in the space of just two years. Since it lost the 2017 election, the party has been beset ... More >>
New Zealand Labour-led Government Continues Attacks On Immigrants
Tuesday, 30 November 2021, 9:29 am | Socialist Equality Group
By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group The immigration minister in New Zealand’s Labour-led government, Kris Faafoi, announced in September that migrants living in NZ on temporary work visas would be “fast-tracked” for residency. Trumpeted ... More >>
Auckland Lockdown To End On December 3 Even Though Delta Surge Continues
Friday, 26 November 2021, 9:20 am | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 25 November 2021, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/11/25/nzco-n25.html New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed on Monday that the Labour Party-led government will abandon lockdowns as a means to suppress COVID-19 on December 3. ... More >>
On The Images Of Bodies In Pike River Mine
Wednesday, 24 November 2021, 11:15 am | Socialist Equality Group
New Zealand police announce they have photographed bodies in Pike River mine More >>
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 >>
