Budget 2026, the rise of oligarchy and the best government money can buy

Roger Douglas, architect of NZ's broken economic model, is calling for Nicola Willis to resign. The former Finance Minister wants the government to pursue a more extreme programme of austerity.

Roger Douglas, architect of NZ's broken economic model, is calling for Nicola Willis to resign. The former Finance Minister wants the government to pursue a more extreme programme of austerity.

The government thinks more foreign chains will solve our supermarket price problem – but it’s the market itself that’s failed....

The government thinks more foreign chains will solve our supermarket price problem – but it’s the market itself that’s failed.

Those who thought the Coalition would tear itself apart through division and infighting were mistaken. The government is united in its strategy to divide the public and redistribute wealth upwards.

Everyone on the left can agree that we must change the government. But if Labour wins in 2026 and refuses to transform the system generating extreme inequality, NZ society will continue to fragment.

There is a method to Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff madness. The chaos and confusion is deliberate; the aim is nothing less than the controlled disintegration of the world economy.

In the face of the most right-wing government we have had in decades, the socialist left in Aotearoa must overcome division, disorganisation and defeatism, and develop a strategy to fight back.

Activists inside centre-left parties overseas have tried to challenge neoliberalism by getting socialist leaders elected such as Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders. Could this happen within NZ Labour?

"Our struggle illuminates internationalism for people. People in every corner of the world are invested in seeing our liberation — they want to know that people can struggle against power and win."

Over the last year, the Coalition has unleashed a series of cuts which have been devastating for the disabled community. These cuts are part of a class war — and it's time to organise and fight back.

It is time that the left took some notes from the neoliberals on how to transform society. If we don't, our economy will only ever move in one direction: ever-higher levels of inequality.

By pursuing cuts, selling off assets to multinationals, enabling ACT's attacks on the Treaty and cutting back on climate commitments, Luxon is guaranteeing that NZ will not be stable for long.

As the Coalition moves to partially privatise our healthcare system, and Seymour fatally undermines the free school lunch programme, it is time for us to take to the streets and fight back