Class Wars: The Teachers Fight Back

Class Wars: The Teachers Fight Back

Aotearoa’s education system is in crisis. A perfect storm of underfunding, understaffing, low pay and long hours is causing people to leave the teaching profession in droves. This exodus is demonstrated in two alarming facts: one, that between 2010 and 2016, there was a 40% drop in student teachers; two, and even worse — that nearly half of all new teachers are dropping the career in their first five working years. Principals are feeling the pain as well: a study was released last year showing that too much work and unsafe hours are resulting in principals in primary schools experiencing dangerously high amounts of stress, burnout and sleep deprivation.

My Uterus, My Rules! Reproductive Rights, Capitalism, and the Struggle for Liberation

My Uterus, My Rules! Reproductive Rights, Capitalism, and the Struggle for Liberation

Alabama and other states in the US have made international news in recent months, causing huge uproar over the passage of restrictive, draconian abortion laws. It is widely — though not yet universally — agreed that forbidding abortions from six weeks in some areas, with no exceptions made for rape or incest, is restrictive, controlling, dehumanising for the person involved, and just plain egregious.

Victory For the Indian Students!

Victory For the Indian Students!

2016-17 saw hundreds of Indian international students in Aotearoa punished by Immigration New Zealand for being victims of fraud committed by unscrupulous offshore education agents. These students were deported because they were deemed to be “of not good character” by Immigration NZ. Amid all this, a small group of eleven students were brave and bold enough to stand up for their rights, and fight a three year long campaign for justice.

Paradise Lost? March 15 and Racism in NZ Politics

Paradise Lost? March 15 and Racism in NZ Politics

When the ‘unthinkable’ happened at two mosques in Christchurch two weeks ago, it was a tragedy which shattered our beautiful Pacific paradise. Our antipodean haven of harmony and unity. That was the narrative, anyway, at least for the first few days. But harmony and unity?

After the Attack: Building a Lasting Movement Against Racism

After the Attack: Building a Lasting Movement Against Racism

The morning of March 15 was incredible. Thousands of young people were on strike from school, marching in the streets of Aotearoa, demanding action on climate change; demanding a better future. For many of them, it was their first ever experience of politics, and their first ever feeling of people power.

Stand Up To Islamophobia

Stand Up To Islamophobia

Love Aotearoa Hate Racism Press Release

After a beautiful day in which thousands of young people across Aotearoa marched for a better future, a chill has descended across this country. Far-right murderers have shot innocent Muslims in their holy mosques, and livestreamed it on Facebook and 4Chan.

Don’t Fall For the Lies About Venezuela

Don’t Fall For the Lies About Venezuela

People around the world are being hit with an avalanche of propaganda about Venezuela and the government of President Nicolás Maduro. This happens in the run up to every US-led war. The tactic is to psychologically prepare people to accept the coming aggression, by connecting it to a noble cause. We only need to remember the claims that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, which were used to justify sanctions and war being imposed on that country. The information war always precedes the real war.