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Partisan

One of our members’ ongoing projects is Partisan, an organising-focused, local left wing newsletter.
With a few new articles published every month, the aim is to inform readers of ongoing and upcoming actions around our city and publish writing and news on issues relevant to the Aotearoa and Wellington left.

Partisan's editing committee is led by Isla Batten Coogan and Jamie Morgan.
To get in touch, send them an email at [email protected]


Some Reflections on Imperialism
- Robert Reid

Trans people need Solidarity, now more than ever - Pat Biss

On the major anniversaries of two huge anti-imperialist victories , peace movement veteran Robert Reid considers New Zealand's place in imperialist and anti-imperialist struggles today.
The global fascist movement is using attacks on the rights of transgender people as a weapon in the class war.  As NZ's own far right try the same tactic, the union left needs to organise a proper response.
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The Mail Must Get Through
- John Maynard

The Airport sale debate exposes a deep flaw in Wellington's Democracy

Our friend and comrade John Maynard of the Postal Workers Union of Aotearoa is getting the word out about NZ Post's latest in a long series of anti-worker (and anti-functioning-postal-service) policies.

Read his statement on behalf of the union here:

Unelected, unseen and unaccountable officials may be forcing a right-wing agenda through what would otherwise be the most progressive Local Government in New Zealand.
We talked to three socialist councillors taking a stand for democracy and against the complete bureaucratic control of our city.
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Tory Whanau is a Neoliberal Failure. We need to back an alternative before it's too late

Wellington's supposedly "progressive" mayor has proved herself to be a right-wing and anti-democratic figure at every turn. As the next local election draws ever-closer, the left needs to find an alternative candidate or risk a right-wing takeover
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The Fight for Socialist Water


In our first ever anonymous submission, a writer involved in the fight against Wellington City Council's plan to privatise our water system talks about an issue that's gone under the radar  as of late and could be a real damage to the lives and livelihoods
of working people in this city.
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Is Kāinga Ora about to make 25 people homeless?

Residents in the Dixon Street flats deserve better. They deserve dignified, well maintained homes. What they're getting instead is utterly callous treatment from an organisation that's supposed to be helping them.
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The Month in Class Struggle

Partisan maintains a monthly bulletin on the events, meetings, protests and goings-on in the Wellington left...



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Kia Ora | The Editors

A quick message from the editors to introduce our newsletter and what it'll be.


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New Year's Revolutions

New year, new ghastly right-wing government. The left needs to be doing real, material organising more than ever, so why aren't we?
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