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International Socialists Aotearoa
@isoaotearoa.bsky.social
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Revolutionary socialists active in Aotearoa New Zealand. Socialist ideas in action: toitū te mana o ngā kaimahi katoa, toitū te mana o te whenua, toitū te Tiriti o Waitangi / www.iso.org.nz
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Transgender-questioning youth in #Aotearoa will now be denied access to the “pause button” of puberty blockers. This govt is deliberately misinterpreting scientific language to achieve a desired outcome: in this case, the oppression of young #transgender people
#nzpol

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Puberty blockers and the deliberate misrepresentation of science
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...
iso.org.nz
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
isoaotearoa.bsky.social
#RocketLab has had US military contracts since 2009. This year they launched satellites that could be used by Israel. >100 ppl, incl ISO members, joined @peaceactnotautahi.bsky.social last month to blockade them, defence firm Nova & USAF contractor Dawn Aerospace #nzpol
iso.org.nz/2025/11/18/p...
Protesting the Ōtautahi Aerospace Conference
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...
iso.org.nz
November 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
isoaotearoa.bsky.social
ISO was proud to stand with #Uberdrivers during their long legal battle for the minimum employment rights.
Today #Uber lost in the Supreme Court.
If the govt proceeds with planned law changes to annul this Supreme Court decision, it must pay the political price #nzpol
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Screenshot of ISO headline, “Uber vs its drivers”, from https://iso.org.nz/2024/03/21/uber-vs-its-drivers/
November 17, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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In a historic victory for the left, Catherine Connolly won the Irish presidential election on October 24, becoming the first left candidate to win a majority of votes in a national election. www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1442/wo...
Ireland: Behind Catherine Connolly’s historic victory
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...
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November 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM
isoaotearoa.bsky.social
“The world we live in today is shaped by the struggles of the past. The class fighters of #Fiji are an important part of our political whakapapa.
We can take inspiration from the boldness & unity of the Fijian workers in 1959, & from the #solidarity of NZ dock workers”
iso.org.nz/2025/11/12/w...
Working Class History: The 1959 Oil Workers Strike in Fiji
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...
iso.org.nz
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
isoaotearoa.bsky.social
“In #Aotearoa, colonisation carried out on the battlefield continued in the classroom. The foundations of the English-centric culture in this country lie directly in the violence visited on those children who tried to speak their Reo.”
#nzpol
iso.org.nz/2025/11/10/a...
Anti-Māori Attacks on Education: Tracing the History
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...
iso.org.nz
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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labornotes.bsky.social
“A politician can’t save us, so as great as Mamdani is, we will need to keep organizing to win his bold agenda,” said labor scholar Stephanie Luce, a PSC-CUNY member labornotes.org/2025/11/zohr... 1/3
Zohran Mamdani: New York's Working Class Elects a Movement Mayor
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...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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New Zealand’s streets filled with nurses, doctors, teachers, healthcare assistants, public workers, and firefighters last month in a massive one-day strike demanding that the government fully fund public services labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
Mega Strike in New Zealand Demands Funding for Public Services, Raises
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 ...
labornotes.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
isoaotearoa.bsky.social
“The 2010s saw an upheaval in protests, from the Arab Spring to Occupy & Black Lives Matter, the Me Too movement & Indigenous protest. Europe saw rebellions vs austerity & in Africa, Asia & South America vs corruption & international exploitation. Yet we had the rise of the far Right. Why is that?”⤵️
The Lost Decade of Revolutions
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.org.nz
November 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
isoaotearoa.bsky.social
“The 1st danger of Crisis Pregnancy Centres is that they spread lies, the 2nd is that they spread shame.” ISO talks to
@alranz.bsky.social co-President Alma de Anda about the misleading anti-abortion organisations springing up round the country
#nzpol #abortion #antichoice
iso.org.nz/2025/11/02/w...
What’s the deal with “Crisis Pregnancy Centres”?
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...
iso.org.nz
November 3, 2025 at 3:10 AM
isoaotearoa.bsky.social
“Our role today is not to obey creeping authoritarianism & the threat of fascism in advance. Our job is to defend the right to #protest & dissent, to counter right-wing protest, & to build a cadre of organisers ready to take their place in mass movements”
#nzpol #socialism
iso.org.nz/2025/10/29/p...
Protect the Right to Protest
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...
iso.org.nz
October 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
isoaotearoa.bsky.social
#nzpol #strike #NZmegastrike #megastrikeNZ
October 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
isoaotearoa.bsky.social
An open letter, in reply to Judith Collins
#nzpol #strike #OneTermGovernment
iso.org.nz/2025/10/20/o...
Open Letter to the Working People of Aotearoa
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 ...
iso.org.nz
October 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
isoaotearoa.bsky.social
ISO #Ōtepoti branch members out supporting firefighters on #strike in #Dunedin. Ka whawhai tonu mātou!
#nzpol #DireEmergency
October 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
isoaotearoa.bsky.social
“The coalition of chaos has brutalised the public service. There have been outright lies from govt ministers, and within the negotiations the govt refuses anything other than a below inflation offer, & sidelines demands around working conditions”
#nzpol #MarangaAke #strike
iso.org.nz/2025/10/16/g...
Gaslighting and Grinding Down: the Government’s Strategy Against Striking Workers
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...
iso.org.nz
October 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
isoaotearoa.bsky.social
“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...
K for Kleptocracy
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...
iso.org.nz
October 15, 2025 at 4:16 AM
isoaotearoa.bsky.social
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🧵
October 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
isoaotearoa.bsky.social
“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...
The year of the strike is a year like no other
“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 ...
iso.org.nz
October 1, 2025 at 7:46 AM
isoaotearoa.bsky.social
"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...
Tātau, Tātau e: Socialism from Below
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....
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September 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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on.ft.com/48qLNWG ‘It’s our South Africa moment’: the growing global boycott of Israel
‘It’s our South Africa moment’: the growing global boycott of Israel
Calls to shun Israel over its war in Gaza are gaining traction in sport, the arts and academia
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September 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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leftvoice.bsky.social
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...
Mamdani’s Campaign Is up Against Capitalist Headwinds, but with Class Struggle We Can Win Our Demands - Left Voice
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
September 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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socialistworker.bsky.social
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

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What is going on in Your Party?
A row in the leadership of Your Party threatens the whole project—but building an insurgent left alternative remains the priority.
socialistworker.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
isoaotearoa.bsky.social
“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...
Women workers deserve a stronger union response to pay equity cuts
This government hates the working class, particularly women In May 2025, New Zealand’s coalition government passed the Equal Pay Amendment Act under urgency, and in this one action, rolled back years ...
iso.org.nz
September 20, 2025 at 4:21 AM
isoaotearoa.bsky.social
“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
New Zealand’s Local Elections: What’s At Stake?
Local government “Local government” is the term used for elected officials and non-elected bureaucratic structures that oversee geographic subparts of New Zealand. The Local Government Act 2002 descri...
iso.org.nz
September 10, 2025 at 5:55 AM
isoaotearoa.bsky.social
“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...
J is for Justice
According to states around the world, one of their central purposes is to maintain order and dispense justice among their populations. Socialists understand that the order they maintain is the capital...
iso.org.nz
August 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM