International Socialists Aotearoa

Uber vs its drivers On 19th March around 40 people rallied outside the Court of Appeal in Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington in support of Uber drivers. The rally called by First Union, which has more than a thousand Uber ...

ISO article - #Uber vs its drivers
#nzpol
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Screenshot of ISO headline, “Uber vs its drivers”, from https://iso.org.nz/2024/03/21/uber-vs-its-drivers/

ISO was proud to stand with #Uberdrivers during their long legal battle for the minimum employment rights.
Today #Uber lost in the Supreme Court.
If the govt proceeds with planned law changes to annul this Supreme Court decision, it must pay the political price #nzpol
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Ireland: Behind Catherine Connolly’s historic victory In a historic victory for the left, Catherine Connolly won the presidential election in Ireland, becoming the first left candidate to win a majority of votes in a national election. Green Left’s Isaac...

In a historic victory for the left, Catherine Connolly won the Irish presidential election on October 24, becoming the first left candidate to win a majority of votes in a national election. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/wo...

Working Class History: The 1959 Oil Workers Strike in Fiji In the late 1950s in Fiji, the cost of living was rising. Indigenous Fijian workers, along with the formerly indentured Indo-Fijian workforce, chafed under the exploitation of the colonial, capitalist...

“The world we live in today is shaped by the struggles of the past. The class fighters of #Fiji are an important part of our political whakapapa.
We can take inspiration from the boldness & unity of the Fijian workers in 1959, & from the #solidarity of NZ dock workers”
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Anti-Māori Attacks on Education: Tracing the History Papers released earlier this year have revealed the government’s plan to cut words in te Reo Māori from primary school curricula. According to a Ministry of Education report in August, te Reo Māori wi...

“In #Aotearoa, colonisation carried out on the battlefield continued in the classroom. The foundations of the English-centric culture in this country lie directly in the violence visited on those children who tried to speak their Reo.”
#nzpol
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Zohran Mamdani: New York's Working Class Elects a Movement Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist and the Democratic nominee, will be New York City’s next mayor, after trouncing former Governor Andrew Cuomo in a primary and general election double whamm...

“A politician can’t save us, so as great as Mamdani is, we will need to keep organizing to win his bold agenda,” said labor scholar Stephanie Luce, a PSC-CUNY member labornotes.org/2025/11/zohr... 1/3

Mega Strike in New Zealand Demands Funding for Public Services, Raises New Zealand’s streets filled with nurses, doctors, teachers, healthcare assistants, public workers, and firefighters on October 23 in a massive one-day strike demanding that the government fully fund ...

New Zealand’s streets filled with nurses, doctors, teachers, healthcare assistants, public workers, and firefighters last month in a massive one-day strike demanding that the government fully fund public services labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...

The Lost Decade of Revolutions The following is a lightly edited version of a public talk given to the Tāmaki Makaurau branch in March 2025. If you are attending a meeting of the International Socialist Organisation then we are goi...

“The 2010s saw an upheaval in protests, from the Arab Spring to Occupy & Black Lives Matter, the Me Too movement & Indigenous protest. Europe saw rebellions vs austerity & in Africa, Asia & South America vs corruption & international exploitation. Yet we had the rise of the far Right. Why is that?”⤵️

What’s the deal with “Crisis Pregnancy Centres”? ISO writer Romany Tasker-Poland talks to ALRANZ co-President Alma de Anda about the misleading anti-abortion organisations springing up around the country. Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zeala...

“The 1st danger of Crisis Pregnancy Centres is that they spread lies, the 2nd is that they spread shame.” ISO talks to
@alranz.bsky.social co-President Alma de Anda about the misleading anti-abortion organisations springing up round the country
#nzpol #abortion #antichoice
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Protect the Right to Protest The demonstration is one of the most tried-and-true tools in the collective political toolbox. A well-placed, well-timed protest can do anything from disrupting industry, to undermining a country’s po...

“Our role today is not to obey creeping authoritarianism & the threat of fascism in advance. Our job is to defend the right to #protest & dissent, to counter right-wing protest, & to build a cadre of organisers ready to take their place in mass movements”
#nzpol #socialism
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#nzpol #strike #NZmegastrike #megastrikeNZ

Open Letter to the Working People of Aotearoa To the patients, students and whānau of those affected by the government’s dismantling of public services,  We condemn the suffering that has been inflicted on you by systematic neglect of the public ...

An open letter, in reply to Judith Collins
#nzpol #strike #OneTermGovernment
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ISO #Ōtepoti branch members out supporting firefighters on #strike in #Dunedin. Ka whawhai tonu mātou!
#nzpol #DireEmergency

Gaslighting and Grinding Down: the Government’s Strategy Against Striking Workers Nurses supporting teachers out on strike. Photo credit: kaitiaki.org.nz The coalition of chaos has, under urgency, passed legislation and prescribed policy that has brutalised the public service. Ther...

“The coalition of chaos has brutalised the public service. There have been outright lies from govt ministers, and within the negotiations the govt refuses anything other than a below inflation offer, & sidelines demands around working conditions”
#nzpol #MarangaAke #strike
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K for Kleptocracy When thinking of political decision making, images of politicians debating in the halls of parliament may come to mind. We’re taught by our schools, the media, and politicians themselves that the Beeh...

“We’re taught that the Beehive is where the important changes to society are made. Sceptical, some resort to conspiracy theories of the Illuminati or aliens to explain who holds the real power. There is a simpler explanation: power is held by the capitalist class”
#nzpol
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There is a call-out to flood the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade with requests to assure his safety and provide him support to return home. We call on all our members and followers to do the same.
Phone 0800301030 or email consular@mfat.govt.nz.

The International Socialist Organisation of Aotearoa (New Zealand) supports the goals of the Global Sumud Flotilla, & condemns the actions of Israeli forces against them.
Israel has now arrested flotilla activists, including New Zealand citizens Samuel Leason, Rana Hamida, and Youssef Sammour.

Israeli forces have intercepted and boarded boats in the #GlobalSumudFlotilla, which was sailing to #Gaza. The Flotilla was a civilian aid flotilla; its goals are to bring aid supplies to Palestinians who are being starved by Israel, & to bring global attention to Israel's crime of cutting off aid🧵

The year of the strike is a year like no other “The year of the strike? Perfect pay storm looms over public sector.” This was the headline of an article back in February by a prescient Stuff journalist. This perfect storm has arrived, though it’s ...

“The year of the #strike? Perfect pay storm looms over public sector.” This was a @stuff.co.nz headline back in February. The perfect storm has arrived though it’s about much more than pay. The current strike wave has the potential to reshape the political landscape #nzpol iso.org.nz/2025/10/01/t...

Tātau, Tātau e: Socialism from Below The emancipation of the working class must be the work of the working class itself.       – Marx and Engels, Strategy and Tactics of the Class Struggle, 1879 The working class is the maker of history....

"Socialists (along with sympathisers, the curious, and even haters) should understand a defining schism or split in socialist politics: between the traditions of #Socialism from Below and Socialism from Above. Essentially: to organise or to be organised."
#nzpol
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‘It’s our South Africa moment’: the growing global boycott of Israel Calls to shun Israel over its war in Gaza are gaining traction in sport, the arts and academia

on.ft.com/48qLNWG ‘It’s our South Africa moment’: the growing global boycott of Israel

Mamdani’s Campaign Is up Against Capitalist Headwinds, but with Class Struggle We Can Win Our Demands - Left Voice Mamdani’s campaign for reform faces massive political and economic pressures that are already starting to drive him rightward. But winning the battles with capital depends on the class struggle.

Mamdani’s campaign for reform faces massive political and economic pressures that are already starting to drive him rightward. But winning the battles with capital depends on the class struggle.
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What is going on in Your Party? A row in the leadership of Your Party threatens the whole project—but building an insurgent left alternative remains the priority.

What is going on in Your Party?

👇Civil war in the party’s leadership threatens the whole project—but building an insurgent left alternative remains the priority

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Women workers deserve a stronger union response to pay equity cuts This government hates the working class, particularly women In May 2025, New Zealand’s coalition government passed the Equal Pay Amendment Act under urgency, and in this one action, rolled back years ...

“Union workers are rightly outraged by this govt and are ready to use their most effective tool, the withholding of their labour, to demand change. In this climate, union leaders who are truly committed to the rights of women workers should be calling for wider strikes”
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New Zealand’s Local Elections: What’s At Stake? Local government “Local government” is the term used for elected officials and non-elected bureaucratic structures that oversee geographic subparts of New Zealand. The Local Government Act 2002 descri...

“Voting in local elections won’t fix all the problems we face, nor is the current local government our vision of working class democracy. But social progress can be maintained by encouraging voter turnout, retaining Māori wards & electing local politicians who stand for collective well-being”
#nzpol

J is for Justice According to states around the world, one of their central purposes is to maintain order and dispense justice among their populations. Socialists understand that the order they maintain is the capital...

“Socialists fight for extending democratic rights, for social services, & against militarism & the carceral system. This puts us in direct conflict with the Right Wing worms currently leading the NZ state politically. But our opposition to the state goes deeper”
#nzpol
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Healthcare in Aotearoa The Coalition government has been relentless in its cuts to public services across the board, all while pumping out policies that uphold the status quo and benefit the wealthy few. Health has been esp...

“The Coalition govt has been relentless in its cuts. Health has been especially targeted, w/ funding cuts, moves towards #privatisation, & deregulation of professions being 3 methods of prioritising profit & its own interests over people & their health & well-being”
#nzpol
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ISO placard in Pōneke reads: “climate change costs jobs and homes”

ISO on the megaphone in Ōtepoti

Blockading ANZ in Ōtepoti

Blockading ANZ in Pōneke

“Climate change costs jobs and homes”

Bathurst Resources wants a new mine to extract even more climate-changing coal - and ANZ Bank is helping them do it. Today ISO joined @climateliberation.bsky.social’s blockades of ANZ branches.

People & planet before profit - System change not #climatechange!

Is Tamatha Paul in ‘la-la land’? Here’s what the evidence says A history of negative experiences of policing will affect how some communities view the police – and it's crucial that the opinions of these communities are heard.

Emmy, Peyton, and Grace are PAPA members as well as criminology lecturers. In this article for the Spinoff, they explain the evidence proving that everything Tamatha Paul said about the police is true.

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The Politics of Law and Order The politics of “law and order” in New Zealand finds its natural home in the current pro-business coalition government. It is no accident that a central focus on accumulation is complemented by a “tou...

It’s no accident that a focus on wealth accumulation for the few is complemented by a “tough on crime” approach: there has to be a way of managing the fallout, the communities abandoned by austerity – some way of justifying the violence visited on them
#nzpol @papa.org.nz
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