New Zealand
ISSE meeting in Wellington, New Zealand
The world economic crisis and the socialist alternative
March 26, 2009
The world economy is experiencing its greatest crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Amidst the breakdown of the global financial system, industrial production and world trade are falling dr...
New Zealand unions collaborate in axing Pacific Brands jobs
By John Braddock, March 14, 2009
Less than week after the New Zealand government sponsored a “Jobs Summit” in response to the deepening international recession, the Australian-owned clothing company Pacific Brands announced the c...
New Zealand “Jobs Summit” places burden of recession on working people
By John Braddock, March 3, 2009
The new conservative John Key government in New Zealand convened a so-called “Jobs Summit” last week that brought business, banks, government and unions together to make a series of recommendation...
Recession in New Zealand deepens
By Tom Peters and Rick Wilson, January 8, 2009
Despite media praise lavished on a late December retail “boom”, New Zealand’s economy shrank for the third consecutive quarter in the three months to September.
New Zealand: Job cuts mount as recession deepens
By Tom Peters and Chris Ross, December 16, 2008
Recent statistics confirm that thousands of New Zealanders are losing their jobs as the country’s recession deepens.
Labour government dumped in New Zealand elections
By John Braddock, November 12, 2008
New Zealand’s Labour government was ousted in last Saturday’s election after losing to the conservative National Party and its leader, the multi-millionaire former currency trader and new Prime Mi...
Economic crisis overshadows New Zealand elections
By John Braddock, October 27, 2008
The main political parties are scrambling to prove their economic credentials and their willingness to impose the brunt of the crisis on working people.
New Zealand police to be armed with Tasers
Report sanitised police brutality
By Tom Peters, September 15, 2008
The New Zealand Police Commissioner, Howard Broad, confirmed last month that officers around the country will be issued with X26 Tasers as a “tactical weapon option”. The so-called “...
Australian media union refuses to challenge job cuts at Fairfax
By Richard Phillips, September 5, 2008
Hundreds of angry journalists employed by Fairfax, one of Australia’s largest media and newspaper companies, walked out on strike late last week in protest over management plans to axe 550 jobs ...
The 2008 New Zealand “Rich List”: the super-wealthy profit from recession
By Tom Peters and Rick Wilson, August 5, 2008
The National Business Review’s (NBR)2008 Rich List, released July 25, reveals that New Zealand’s super-rich have been thoroughly insulated from the effects of the current recession.
New Zealand truck drivers hold mass protests against road user charges
By our correspondents, July 10, 2008
On Friday, July 4, some 4,400 truck drivers across New Zealand took part in a mass protest over the rising cost of diesel fuel and increased road user charges for heavy vehicles. Truck convoys descend...
New Zealand economy lurches sharply into reverse
By John Braddock, July 4, 2008
Economic data released in recent weeks confirms that the New Zealand economy swung rapidly into reverse during the opening months of the year. Gross Domestic Product shrank 0.3 percent in the March qu...
