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'I actually think the fight against data centres is singlehandedly reviving the climate movement. What are they building? What are they doing? Like they are building technology, by their own account, to destroy your job, right? And they're making your electricity prices go up, so they can destroy your job? Like, it's the worse offer capitalism has ever come up with.' Naomi Klein . This week…
Rather than proposing to tinker with a failed system, why isn't the Green Party proposing the establishment of publicly-owned low cost grocery stores? The answer lies in its deference to Labour. THE LATEST Talbot Mills poll result — an eight-percent reading that continues a downward drift — should have jolted the Green Party into a moment of genuine introspection. It didn’t come out of nowhere.…
New Zealand's problems lie deeper than Christopher Luxon's habit of producing politically embarrassing gaffes. THE DISCONTENT simmering inside the National Party caucus has burst into the open, with a faction of MPs openly questioning whether Christopher Luxon can continue leading a party that is struggling to hold even a third of the electorate. But National’s crisis is not unique. Labour, its…
This week the Minister of Foreign Affairs announced a new series of sanctions against Russia. But Winston Peters remains silent about Israel's genocidal rampage in Gaza. THE NEW ZEALAND Government has shown no hesitation in punishing Russia for its military assault on Ukraine. This week the Minister of Foreign Affairs announced yet another round of sanctions—more than 30 individuals and entities…
The latest unemployment figures have again exposed the failure of neoliberalism, yet no alternative is being offered by Labour and supported by the Green Party. Young people have been hit hard by neoliberalism and its little wonder that only 53 percent of 18-24 year old have enrolled for the election. It's not apathy — it's a rational response to a political system that has failed them. THE LATEST…
Winston Peters racist rant against a Chinese-born Green MP has provided him with the headlines he craves. But little media attention has focused on his role in positioning New Zealand as a quiet supporter of Israel's genocidal military campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon, even as global outrage has intensified. THE NEW ZEALAND Government’s ongoing refusal to condemn Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza…
The Green Party has kicked class politics to the kerb. It wants to be the party of 'all of us'. It is a slogan that means nothing because it is designed to offend no one. And it is a slogan that reflects a party unwilling to commit to the kind of politics—class politics, ecosocialist politics—that the moment demands. THE GREEN PARTY'S 2026 election slogan, 'For All of Us,' has been described by…
This weekend the Green Party is holding its Annual General Meeting in Auckland. It comes at a time when a new poll has the Green's polling at just nine percent. The decision by the Green Party to tether itself to a centre-right Labour Party is not impressing voters. THE GREEN PARTY enters its Annual General Meeting in Auckland this weekend at a moment that should be electrifying for any party of…
A new report from the independent Climate Change Commission says that emission reductions have stalled since the National-led government took office, and New Zealand is no longer on track to meet its legally binding climate targets. New Zealand cannot afford another decade of managerialism, denialism, or incrementalism. ALTHOUGH THE Labour Government’s efforts to fight climate change were largely…
The World Cup Final will be about more than football, and Gaza is the reason. THE WORLD Cup Final will be played on a football pitch, but the politics surrounding it are impossible to ignore. While mainstream sports coverage has largely tiptoed around the geopolitical backdrop, it is clear that much of the world will be cheering for Spain — and Gaza is the reason. In a moment when global sport is…
