New Zealand: What has happened to real wages since1982?
By Mike TreenOfficial data on wage movements in New Zealand point to a real wage decline of around 25% between 1982 and the mid-1990s that has never been recovered.There have been two series measuring...
View ArticleNew Zealand socialists target bad banks and low wages
Representatives of New Zealand left organisations attended the Australian Socialist Alliance's recent national conference. In the following interviews, conducted by the Australian socialist newspaper...
View ArticleNew Zealand: Matt McCarten for Mana! It's time for a new left
In a wide-ranging Radio New Zealand interview on October 17, 2010, Matt McCarten discusses atheism, socialism, neoliberalism, the IWW, working class history and the need for a new left party.Listen...
View ArticleNew Zealand: The battle for Mana -- a new left votes
November 11, 2010 -- Matt McCarten’s Mana by-election campaign has taken up the issue of housing, identifying many empty state houses in the electorate, while families are homeless. Four campaigners...
View ArticleNew Zealand: Matt McCarten on Unite and the prospects for a new left party
Matt McCarten (right) campaigning for better pay.December 7, 2010 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Matt McCarten is secretary of the New Zealand's fastest growing union, Unite....
View ArticleAotearoa/New Zealand: A new working-class, pro-Maori political voice
Hone Harawira speaks at the Mana Party launch.MANA- 1.(noun) prestige, authority, control, power, influence, status, spiritual power, charisma.May 11, 2011 – Links International Journal of Socialist...
View ArticleAotearoa/New Zealand: Call for international solidarity with Burger King workers
By Joe Carolan August 24, 2012 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Workers employed by the Burger King fast-food chain, organised by the Unite Union in Aotearoa/New Zealand, are...
View ArticleWhat might a socialist world look like?
November 29, 2012 -- Socialist Aotearoa -- Mike Treen, life-long socialist and national director of the Unite Union, describes what a socialist society might look like.
View ArticleUnite union leader on the struggle against climate change, and for socialism
Mike Treen on the picket line. If trade unions take up the challenge, they could become “the voice for a boldly different economic model, one that provides solutions to the attacks on working people,...
View ArticleInequality will be the issue for 2014
By Mike Treen,national director of the Unite union (New Zealand)January 14, 2014 -- The Daily Blog, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with the permission of the author --...
View ArticleAotearoa/New Zealand: Matt McCarten stuns friends and foes, joins Labour...
Matt McCarten and Labour Party leader David Cunliffe protest for workers' rights in 2010. Photo: Getty Images.March 4, 2014 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Long-time New Zealand...
View Article'Do unto apartheid Israel what you did to apartheid South Africa': trade...
Resolution on Palestine adopted by Unite Union (Aotearoa/New Zealand), posted at Links International Journal of Socialist RenewalJuly 18, 2014 -- Over 170 Palestinian political parties, unions and...
View ArticleAotearoa/New Zealand: The tasks before the left and labour movement
For more on the MANA party, click HERE. For more on Aotearoa/New Zealand, click HERE. By Mike Treen, Unite Union national director September 28, 2014 -- Daily Blog -- Anyone on the left would have been...
View ArticleMike Treen: A critique of crisis theory
November 10, 2014 -- Mike Treen, Unite Union national director, discusses why capitaism continues to have crises today and why they will continue with increasing severity until working people take...
View ArticleMike Treen: SYRIZA victory in Greece a blow to austerity
Crowd at SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras' victory speech, January 25, 2015. Photo by Vivian Messimeris/GLW.For more discussion and analysis of SYRIZA's victory, click HERE.By Mike Treen, director UNITE...
View ArticleThoughts on reform, revolution, social change and elections in light of...
Hugo Chavez and supporters at Chavez’s final campaign rally in Caracas on October 4, 2013, three days before his re-election as president.Click for more discussion of SYRIZA, Latin Americaand...
View ArticleMike Treen: Une critique de la théorie des crises
[English text and video at http://links.org.au/node/4156.] Mike Treen, directeur national du syndicat Unite, explique pourquoi le capitalisme continue à connaître des crises aujourd’hui, et pourquoi...
View ArticleAotearoa/New Zealand: Unite Union's fast-food workers take on corporations...
Unite fast-food delegates at a national gathering on February 14 take time out to picket a McDonald's store to launch the campaign publicly.For more on Aotearoa/New Zealand, click HERE.By Mike Treen,...
View ArticleTechnology, labour and welfare in the 21st century
By Mike Treen, Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
View ArticleMigrant labour, exploitation and 'free' markets
By Mike Treen October 27, 2016 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal— Currently, New Zealand has at least 150,000 people working on temporary work visas or as students with the right...
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