Education in New Zealand is in a state of crisis. It is fighting a hostile government that does not believe in public education. From broad sweeping curriculum changes, privatisation and union busting through charter schools, a worsening of teachers’ conditions, and the larger social issues facing youth, schools are a focal point of capitalist society’s…
Kia ora koutou, Join Teachers for Palestine Aotearoa and Wellington Socialist Society and get down to Bedlam and Squalor after the Palestine hīkoi on October 4th – bring your laptops! Continual resistence is imperative if we are to finally consign this genocide to the history books, after it has been allowed to victimise the steadfast…
Kia ora Comrades, Come one, come all to our monthly(ish) social drinks. Whether you’re a member or a fellow traveller, come and have a drink. To sweeten the deal during this cost of living “crises” (or is it just capitalism?) we’ll even put on a tab so you can have a round on us! So…
The son of a wealthy British peer, Ivor Montagu (1904–1984) rebelled against his privileged background, becoming a pioneer of film culture, a collaborator of two of the most famous directors of the era, an activist documentary maker and an ardent supporter of Soviet communism. He lobbied for Trotsky to be granted asylum in the UK…
The Alliance Party, once a strong force in Aotearoa’s electoral landscape, has returned from a decade in hibernation to contest the Christchurch local body elections. Tom Roud, a founding member of the Canterbury Socialist Society, has decided to throw his hat in the ring, running as the Alliance’s candidate for Council in Christchurch’s Central Ward;…
“Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.” ― Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism (1993). Internationalism…
‘In world market crises, all the contradictions of bourgeois production erupt collectively; in particular crises (particular in their content and in extent) the eruptions are only sporadically, isolated and one-sided.’ Theories of Surplus Value – Karl Marx What happens when capitalism reaches its limits? Can the system sustain itself indefinitely, or is collapse built into…
We’re stoked to be contributing to this event alongside Teachers for Palestine! https://events.humanitix.com/kneecap-film-nightTickets are $20 waged, $15 unwaged. Funds raised by be donated to KiwiPal https://kiwipal.org Kneecap have made it their mission to bring attention to colonisation through their Irish language hip-hop. Riotous, rebellious, and hilarious, Kneecap the film is a mostly-true origin story of the…
In 2023, the Wellington City Council commissioned a review of its balance sheet which identified that the Council had a significant insurance risk associated with underinsurance in the context of a major disaster. The review recommended the sale of the full Wellington Airport shareholding and establishment of a perpetual investment fund to manage the Council’s…
The National-led coalition’s shock gutting of pay equity legislation, passed under urgency just days after being announced, has taken woman workers back decades. The new legislation goes well beyond repealing the 2020 amendments to the Equal Pay Act of 1972: in a number of important respects, it takes women back to the 1970s. In 2012,…