Class Wars: The Teachers Fight Back

Class Wars: The Teachers Fight Back

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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

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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!

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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

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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

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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.

Long Past Time For Climate Justice

Long Past Time For Climate Justice

Runaway climate change is the greatest crisis of the 21st Century. It has been inspiring in the past few months to see new movements forming to take a stand for our planet — especially young people, as our generation have by far the most to lose from this fast-approaching disaster. But we can never truly prevent environmental meltdown unless we challenge this problem at its root; unless we challenge the system which is the fundamental cause, both of climate change, and of the extreme inequality in today’s society. We need to overthrow capitalism.