“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 iso.org.nz/2025/10/15/k...

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? 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...

"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 iso.org.nz/2025/09/29/t...

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

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. www.leftvoice.org/mamdanis-cam...

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 socialistworker.co.uk/news/what-is...

“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” iso.org.nz/2025/09/20/w...

“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

“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 iso.org.nz/2025/08/28/j...

“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 iso.org.nz/2025/08/15/h...

“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!

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. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...

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 iso.org.nz/2025/08/07/t...

Socialists out yesterday with #nurses in their fight for #safestaffing. That means funding public health, not tax cuts for the govt’s capitalist mates & parasitic landlords! Respect to the #NZNO rank & file & Prez Anne Daniels for dismantling tripe peddled by right-wing slimeballs like Ryan Bridge

“The crowd of 300, bristling with flags of #NZNO, various unions & Tino Rangatiratanga, gathered at Te Whatu Ora head office to demand better pay, safer staffing & recruitment of new nurses – the bare minimum for #nurses facing the reality of Aotearoa’s healthcare crisis” iso.org.nz/2025/07/31/s...

“Work in the performing arts – incl dance, theatre & film – raises unique issues at the intersection of consent & workplace safety. Workers in these industries are fighting to raise awareness, promote safer practices, & strengthen protections against harassment & abuse.” iso.org.nz/2025/07/19/c...

Nearly two-thirds of young Americans view socialism favorably, according to a 2025 YouGov/CATO poll. That's up from 51% in 2019.

#OtD 22 Jul 2005 civil servants in Tonga went on strike for pay rises. The strike incapacitated the government and grew to include many other public sector employees, resulting in the most significant challenge to the island's monarchy in its history stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9488...

Public talk presented by Lily Atu at the ISO Te Whanganui-a-Tara weekly meeting on 15 July - about resistance in the #Pacific, particularly discussing the struggle and resistance to colonial oppression and exploitation. #kanaky #imperialism #westpapua #nzpol m.youtube.com/watch?v=e00o...

#OtD 21 Jul 1936 this iconic photo of 17-year-old socialist Marina Ginestà was taken by Hans Gutmann after the start of the Spanish civil war. She was a journalist and translator who was given the rifle to pose with. She survived the war. More in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e39-...

“Nurses, midwives, and healthcare assistants have voted to go on a 24-hour #strike at the end of July. When #nurses and the health system are being attacked by a government ruling for the rich, it is right to strike!” #nzpol iso.org.nz/2025/07/21/n...

"Unsolvable economic crisis plus Trump’s rogue politics make Trumpism an extremely unstable system."

#OtD 19 Jul 1936 after a right-wing coup by General Franco, workers across Spain took up arms and launched a social revolution. The ensuing civil war pitted the working class against Spanish capitalists, German Nazis and Italian fascists. More in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...

“War and profit go hand-in-hand. This relationship goes deeper than direct war profiteering, and deeper even than the scramble for resources like oil. #Imperialism grows out of the workings of #capitalism itself, and is an integral part of the capitalist system.” #nzpol iso.org.nz/2025/07/18/i...

Associate Professor Brian Roper gave us a refresher on socialist organising from Marx to Lenin and beyond, to ground our decision-making at the ISO Hui-ā-Tau National Conference. #nzpol #marxism #socialism #resist m.youtube.com/watch?v=6FY_...

So, according to the US Defence Intelligence Agency, the Trump-Netanyahu’12-day war’ has only set back Iran’s nuclear programme by a few months. But it has caused much death, destruction, and suffering and given the Iranian regime a strong incentive to develop nuclear weapons.

“These are our calls today: Defeat for the US and Israel’s war of aggression! End Zionism in our lifetime! Hands off #Iran! US out of the Middle East!” iso.org.nz/2025/06/24/h...

Lenin once observed that “politics is a concentrated expression of economics”. So day one of the ISO Hui-ā-Tau National Conference kicked off with this public talk #nzpol #socialism m.youtube.com/watch?v=JQJF...

#PRESSRELEASE “You don’t send planes into a war zone ‘just in case.’ Not without a mandate. Not without telling the people. This Government is dragging us toward World War 3, in secret, without debate, and with zero accountability.” @rawiriwaititimp.bsky.social #NZPol

At the 2025 ISO Hui-ā-Tau National Conference, a public talk on day one focused on the places where protest is fracturing the govt’s politics #nzpol #toitūtetiriti m.youtube.com/watch?v=2J-5...

Day one of the 2025 ISO Hui-ā-Tau National Conference featured public talks on issues for working class struggle today. Understanding #gender repression means understanding how attacks on #payequity and #transrights are connected #nzpol #socialism #feminism #feminist m.youtube.com/watch?v=GjV4...

#OtD 18 Jun 1978 a multi-ethnic crowd of 4000 people took to the streets to protest against racism after a white mob attacked the predominantly Bengali area of Brick Lane in London the previous week. More on Asian struggles at this time in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/tag/british-...

#OtD 20 Jun 1967 boxing legend Muhammad Ali was convicted for refusing the draft for the Vietnam war. Sentenced to five years prison and a $10,000 fine, he attacked a system where "the rich man's son went to college and the poor man's son went to war" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9289...

Last weekend’s massive “No Kings” rallies proved Donald Trump’s deep unpopularity. But Trump should be opposed as a symptom of America’s vast warmongering, oligarchic elite, not a simply a grotesque anomaly.

The 2025 ISO Hui-ā-Tau National Conference kicked off with public talks on issues for working class struggle today. First up - Confronting the Global Far Right #antifa #resist #nokings m.youtube.com/watch?v=bN40...

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“For Te Roopu Taurima, the lockout backfired. Public outrage & the spectre of escalating #strike action forced their reinstatement & resumption of talks with @nzpsa.bsky.social #union. The success underscored that collective action remains labour’s sharpest tool.” #nzpol iso.org.nz/2025/06/11/c...

“If we are organized, big community mobilizations can make it so that ICE agents cannot sleep, eat, or drive in LA.” - A great participant account of the resistance to Trump’s immigration raids marx21us.org/2025/06/09/l...

Workers need real political leadership that tackles emissions at the source, not just more pine forests. Read the full press release here: union.org.nz/climate-lega...

#OtD 30 May 1978 142 workers building the Mangere Bridge in South Auckland were locked out following on-the-job action for better redundancy pay. The government backed the employers, but the strike was successful after two and a half years stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1032...

Celebrating this week's initiation of collective bargaining (negotiating with the company for the Living Wage)with Resene workers & representatives from the community. The sign reads 'United for a Living Wage' because the community is in this for the long haul & will stands with these workers.

#nzpol IT’S HERE!!! youtu.be/QLOjiiC3P1Y?... #atlasnetwork @lucyham.bsky.social

#OtD 21 May 1968 during the May uprising in France, radical workers and students formed a joint Workers-Students Action Committee to support an ongoing strike and occupation at Paris's Citroen auto plant stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9417...

A tremendous rally for Palestine today in Melbourne. 15,000 marked Nakba Day and called for Palestine to be free, from the river to the sea. ✊🏽🇵🇸✊🏽

No one should have to live in fear of being themselves. Yet, for many, this fear remains an everyday reality. A joint statement from European unions, including UNI Europa, on International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia #IDAHOBIT.

Poster advertising amemorial meeting to the five? New Zealanders who died fighting for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War. Held in Auckland on 14 May 1939. NZ Herald reported 900 people attended the meeting. More here from this excellent site on NZ and SCW nzhistory.govt.nz/page/new-zea...

H is for Home in ISO’s ABCs of Socialism series: “#Socialism does not inherently equal liberation for women but it does create the necessary conditions for women’s liberation to finally be realised.” #nzpol #womensliberation iso.org.nz/2025/05/13/h...

Our collective voice will be their political downfall. Their one term ends with us. This was the hīkoi that changed New Zealand. Te Tiriti Te Whenua Te Tangata ❤️🤍🖤 #TePātiMāori #NZPol #ToitūTeTiriti

#OtD 10 May 1920 dock workers in England refused to load armaments for use by Allies against the Russian Revolution. Sylvia Pankhurst played a key role in organising this, as did a woman known only as "Mrs Walker from Poplar" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8226/ss-jolly-george-...