From 1853 until 1993, New Zealanders participating in national elections cast their vote under a First Past the Post (FPP) system, in which each voter chose their preferred candidate for the electorat...

In 1919–1920, Italy saw a great upheaval of the working class. This period was called the “Biennio Rosso”, the Two Red Years. Italy was struggling after years of war and wartime industrialisation, whi...

As we press forward into the 21st century and witness a US Empire struggle to rein in its imperialist overreach, and an ascendant China rise to challenge the US’ economic hegemony, against a backdrop ...

In a crowded Union Hall at the Otago University Students’ Association Leaders Debate on Wednesday 11 August, Opportunity deputy leader Daniel Eb made a compelling case for the party’s recent rise in t...

The massacre at Al Noor mosque in 2019 was, for many New Zealanders, their first close encounter with violent right-wing extremism. The Parliament Occupation of 2022, in turn, revealed the breadth and...

Whether scrolling through a news website or a social media feed, you’re likely to encounter a variety of little windows into far-right and fascist activity, and of individual and collective efforts to...

In July 2026, prime minister of India Narendra Modi stepped onto the red carpet at Auckland’s Government House to the ceremonial embrace of New Zealand prime minister Christopher Luxon and other corpo...

2026 may be seeing the birth of a new wave of student activism across Aotearoa. On 29 July, approximately 500 students struck and marched through the University of Otago campus to make themselves hear...

It is not the best or most popular ideas that hold the most sway in society, but rather the ideas of those who have the most power. We know the state machinery of capitalist nations is built to serve ...

Dunedin students unite to protest end of fees free scheme

Dr Manoja Kalupahana has been appointed by Health Minister Simeon Brown to the statutory body responsible for regulating New Zealand's 20,000 doctors.

We can learn much of value from the student struggles of the 1990s for the student struggles in the second half of the 2020s against high fees, inadequate provision of student allowances, and rising s...

A Crisis in Achievement or a Crisis in Society? Is education in crisis? It certainly seems so. Those of us who are working in schools have had to deal with the cavalcade of changes. That includes curr...

Under new laws, immigration officers will be able to demand identification from suspected overstayers at their homes and workplaces. These out-of-hours compliance visits harken back to policies of the...

Last year on 18 December, International Migrants Day, Union Network of Migrants (UNEMIG) joined with other groups to protest outside the office of Immigration Minister Erica Stanford, raising the slog...

The most brutal right-wing government this country has seen since the 1990s is in power. The opposition is led by Chris Hipkins, the spineless neoliberal Labour Party leader promising to be a “continu...

Above all else, what Nicola Willis and Chris Luxon are doing in the 2026 Budget is taking from poor and middling folks and giving to the rich, who also happen to be National and ACT’s main political d...

How should the Left understand racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism? And how do these categories relate to class? Some view the problem as ideological: the ruling class uses bigotry as...

US entered war with maximalist goals and exits it with pragmatic decision to end conflict despite political cost

This piece is one in a series of profiles of electoral parties in the lead up to the 2026 General Election. The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand is currently the most left-wing it has ever been. It...

The world economy was already in trouble before the US and Israel attack on Iran commencing February 2026. Writing in May, the nature of the conflict may well have changed by the time these words are ...

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Following in the footsteps of innumerable waves of anti-trans legislature in the US and the UK’s Supreme Court decision last year, the coalition government ensured that, on 20 May, “Legislation (Defin...

Are you a “blue-collar hard-working Kiwi” or a “weirdo with purple hair?” New Zealand First, Winston Peters claimed in his March State of the Nation speech, is the only party that “understands what a ...

What is Nationalism, and why do socialists oppose it? While often presented as timeless, the nation-state is a relatively new phenomenon. The evolution of modern nation-states in Europe in the 19th ce...

War, and consequent death of both soldiers and non-combatants, has been a miserable feature of much of human history. It’s only relatively late in our history, however, that we have faced the possibil...

Money makes the world go round, or rather, money goes around the world. Countless banks, corporations, funds, and trusts shift capital in a global investment market. Guns, bullets, bandages, and burge...

Historical Materialism is a theory of history, a way of understanding the world. It is the fundamental underpinning of Marxist analysis. As the name suggests, this is a “materialist” framework: it sta...

This piece is one in a series of profiles of electoral parties in the lead up to the 2026 General Election. Just as Wiremu Tamihana was declared “Kingmaker” in the 1850s, “Old Racist Uncle” Winston Pe...

The working class of Aotearoa has been faced with attacks on all sides by a hostile reactionary government. Living standards are slipping as unemployment rises, wages fall behind, and public services ...

After a long absence, the strike seems to be making a comeback in the U.S. The teacher strike wave of 2018-19 caught everyone off guard—but showed that workers’ most powerful tool can still win. As we...

The Luddites currently occupy an almost mythological presence in the cultural imagination. Now a derogatory term, to be a Luddite, we’re told, is a shameful thing: to be backwards-looking, hateful of ...

Biometry is the analysis of biological data. Much more recently, the term “biometrics” has taken on a particular popular focus: specifically, the automated measurement of human features, often for ind...

Capitalism and technology often seem synonymous. The word technology conjures an image of Google headquarters full of tech bros in suits yapping about how best to maximise ad revenue, but a different ...

Over the last week we’ve seen in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington multiple waves of extreme rainfall, which have led to flooding, landslides, damage to homes and public infrastructure, and the disappear...

When Datagrid’s 78,000 square metre data centre in Makarewa, north of Invercargill, is built, it will use 280 MW of power, making it the second-largest user of electricity after the Tiwai Point alumin...

This piece is the first in a series of profiles of electoral parties in the lead up to the 2026 General Election. A network of large-scale owners, the super-rich bourgeoisie, constitute the ruling cap...