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New strategy from NZ union leaders
Tuesday, 1 June 2010, 10:53 am | Socialist Worker
Last week, the NZ Council of Trade Unions released a second draft of their Alternative Economic Strategy. More >>
Tax justice campaign launched nationwide
Thursday, 20 May 2010, 3:47 pm | Socialist Worker
“The 15% GST hike announced in the budget today is unjust,” says Vaughan Gunson, coordinator of a new campaign for tax justice. More >>
Protest Illegal Actions Against Tamil Refugees
Monday, 18 January 2010, 1:56 pm | Socialist Worker
Over 250 Tamils fleeing persecution in Sri Lanka’s bloody ethnic conflict are being detained at gunpoint on a small boat in the Indonesian port of Merak. They have been held against their will in Merak since 11 October 2009. More >>
Bad Banks exposure of ASB's "Kiwi bank" claim
Tuesday, 8 December 2009, 1:29 pm | Socialist Worker
Bad Banks campaigners will be outside ASB Bank on Queen Street (cnr Wellesley St), Auckland, this Friday to expose ASB's claim that it's a "Kiwi bank". More >>
Marxism Alive - Ideas to fight the crisis
Wednesday, 10 June 2009, 10:16 am | Socialist Worker
The global economic crisis has hit New Zealand. People are losing their jobs or being forced to accept pay cuts. Mortgagee sales are on the rise. Government spending on essential public services is under threat. And economic analysts from across the ... More >>
Solidarity Rally At Bastion Point With Jimmy O'Dea
Friday, 26 October 2007, 10:56 am | Socialist Worker
SOLIDARITY RALLY AT BASTION POINT WITH JIMMY O DEA from 3pm onwards, Friday October 26th More >>
Maori Yesterday: Trade Unions Today?
Thursday, 25 October 2007, 10:20 pm | Socialist Worker
Union activists say that a police raid on a 72-year old trade unionist in poor health today is part of a crackdown on all political activists. More >>
Abolish the Terror laws
Thursday, 25 October 2007, 11:55 am | Socialist Worker
If we don’t fight to defend the “Urewera Seventeen” - the activists currently imprisoned without bail or trial - then it could be us next. That’s the simple fact that all of us who believe in social justice have to learn. More >>
Solidarity with Aboriginal Australia
Monday, 2 July 2007, 12:26 am | Socialist Worker
The Auckland branch of Socialist Worker has called for all anti racist and trade union groups to join with them at a protest outside the Australian Consulate this Monday July 2nd at 4.30pm, to oppose John Howard's invasion of Aboriginal lands in ... More >>
Socialism, Democracy and the Labour Party
Monday, 28 May 2007, 2:31 pm | Socialist Worker
Is there anything socialist or democratic about Labour? · What would a real socialist party look like? · What would a socialist government be like? More >>
Demonstrate for Lebanon this Saturday 1pm Aotea Sq
Tuesday, 1 August 2006, 2:42 pm | Socialist Worker
The Israeli airforce killed 56 people in Qana , including 37 children. The photographs are too distressing to publish in this leaflet, but we will never forget this slaughter of innocent children. Masses of people across the world are taking to the streets ... More >>