Winston Peters recently made a speech attacking Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programmes in Aotearoa. The speech, filled with reactionary bluster, predictably framed DEI as a tool of woke overreach. But what neither Peters nor his liberal opponents will admit is that DEI is not a radical challenge to oppression—it is a corporate mechanism designed… Continue reading The DEI Illusion: A Capitalist Smokescreen
Month: March 2025
The creeping mass surveillance NZ State via Supermarkets
In NZ, we like our fascism casual. We are so laid back as a culture we are horizontal. Less Goose-stepping boots, more marching crocs. The banality of evil that NZs mass surveillance represents is so twee it’s perfectly kiwi. The vast power of the Supermarkets not only give them economic manipulation, they also have mass… Continue reading The creeping mass surveillance NZ State via Supermarkets
Fundraising for deserters and war refugees
The war massacre in Ukraine continues, affecting populations on both sides of the war line. While Putin’s army bombs Ukrainian cities, the Ukrainian government has turned them into prisons for a significant portion of the local population. People are being maimed, imprisoned, raped and murdered as a result of the actions of the rulers in… Continue reading Fundraising for deserters and war refugees
Remembering The Communist Roots of International Working Women’s Day
Every year on March 8th, people across the world commemorate International Working Women’s Day (IWWD), often celebrated as a general day of appreciation for women’s achievements. In many places, it has been stripped of its radical and working-class origins, reduced to corporate slogans and social media posts. But the truth is that IWWD is deeply… Continue reading Remembering The Communist Roots of International Working Women’s Day
Proletarians “On the Home Front”! Comrades!
via: Revolutionary Defeatist Network RDNetwork@subvertising.org In many parts of the world, right now the capitalism is once again kicking off its inherent war machine to slaughter thousands upon thousands of proletarians. They are being relentlessly bombed and shelled; deliberately starved and deprived of water; forced to shoot, stab or poison each other with gas in… Continue reading Proletarians “On the Home Front”! Comrades!
The Zelensky-Trump-Vance Controversy: A Case Study in Imperialist Decline
The global political stage has been set ablaze by an exchange between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, former U.S. President Donald Trump, and Ohio Senator J.D. Vance. The dispute, rooted in U.S. aid to Ukraine and the broader war effort against Russia, highlights the contradictions within American imperialism and the opportunism of its political actors. For… Continue reading The Zelensky-Trump-Vance Controversy: A Case Study in Imperialist Decline
Latest Issue of Solidarity -Newsletter of Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement
Contents: Aotearoa’s Job Crisis: Austerity, Alienation, and the False Promises of Capitalism Jacinda Ardern: The Myth of Kindness and the Reality of Division Beyond the Crisis: An Anarcho-Communist Response to Aotearoa’s State of the Nation 2025 The State of the Working Class in Aotearoa: A Crisis of Capitalist Exploitation Download : Solidarity March 25 copy