The following is the minimally edited transcript of an interview conducted in October/November 2025. A short commentary article based on this interview was previously published on this website and in ...

The 23 October public sector strike was the largest industrial action taken in Aotearoa since the one-day General strike in 1979. On 28 October Te Whanganui-a-Tara branch of the International Socialis...

Compartimos para interés de nuestrxs lectores, una entrevista a Grant, de Aotearoa-Nueva Zelanda, quien es un activista socialista del sindicato de enfermeros Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) para conocer el impacto y la situación de la reciente huelga de trabajadores del sector público más grande de los últimos 40 años. Más allá de las importantes diferencias que mantenemos con la Organización Socialista Internacional (ISO), esta entrevista nos permite conocer y tener una visión de la situación de Aotearoa - Nueva Zelanda, la resistencia Māori, la cuestión palestina y la lucha de clases.

Transgender-questioning youth in Aotearoa will now be denied access to the “pause button” of puberty blockers – denied the option to delay their puberty by a few years while they come to grips with an...

To quote from the 2025 Aerospace Summit website, New Zealand is a “global space leader”. Our low population density and open skies make us the perfect arena, in logistical terms, for testing and launc...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 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...

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 ...

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...

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...

“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 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....

Calls to shun Israel over its war in Gaza are gaining traction in sport, the arts and academia

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.

A row in the leadership of Your Party threatens the whole project—but building an insurgent left alternative remains the priority.