Kia Ora! | The Editors

Tēnā koutou katoa! It’s the editors here, and it’s our pleasure to welcome you to this, the inaugural issue of Partisan.

This newsletter is a long time in the making. After many false starts, conversations and arguments over the time we've been part of things, it's become clear that a space needs to be created for socialists in Wellington to discuss the things that matter locally, from a Marxist perspective.
Our aim is not that this becomes a party newspaper, but a space where all manner of communists, socialists and fellow travellers in our city can let each other know what’s going on in the region, what needs our attention and what we can be doing to improve in our organisational efforts. 

Once a month, we'll publish a new slate of articles. There'll be stuff written by Te Nuku Mauī members, stuff sent in from the wider Wellington and Aotearoa left, and a monthy editorial column from us. We'll aim to cover upcoming demonstrations, discussions on policy and how that’ll affect our corner of the country, reflections on past work and the occasional historical ramble about what’s gone on in the past and how it relates to what’s happening now.
These of course will be supplemented by the occasional special update as short-notice actions are announced or events transpire that might demand a more immediate bit of writing.

Our hope as the editorial team on Partisan is that us and our newsletter will be a small part in a wider effort to build left wing community here in Wellington. To get people talking to eachother and working together as a movement and as a class on the things that matter, not just arguing with eachother as clique members on issues of semantics and sectarianism.

This website is able to stay online thanks to the generous contributions and many volunteer hours of our dedicated community of writers, rank-and-file union members , and guys who work in IT who had no idea what they were putting their hands up for when they let their comrades know they "knew a bit about computers."
Without you, none of this would be possible.
That being said - we are always on the lookout for anybody who’s got something to say or is willing to lend a hand with website maintenance, and encourage you to get in touch at [email protected] if you’d like to see your work here.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Love and Solidarity,
-The Editors.