While Israeli attacks on United Nations Peacekeepers in Lebanon have been widely condemned, New Zealand has said nothing.THIS GOVERNMENT'S failure to adequately confront Israel'… Read More

 The National-led Government has been accused of waging a war against nature, but the answer is not another set of policies that also fail to address the crisis that we now confr… Read More

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 THIS FEATURE length investigation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through the medium of photos and videos po… Read More

Stuff has declined to publish a full-page advertisement that accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.IN HIS 1994 memoir You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, US historian Howard Zinn… Read More

JOURNALIST  Séamus Malekafzali joins Abby Martin to talk about Israel's invasion of Lebanon, the assassination of Nasrallah, and the potential for war with Iran. T… Read More

 Western political elites, including politicians in New Zealand, have condemned Iran's missile attack on Israel. They are the very same politicians who have defended Israel's gen… Read More

Zionists and their supporters are celebrating the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. But Hezbollah now knows that there can be no compromise with an enemy that has demonstra… Read More

  This week, 124 United Nation member states, including New Zealand, voted to require Israel to leave the territories it is illegally occupying. But four New Zealand… Read More

It would be a big mistake for Chris Hipkins to think that Labour can emulate the electoral success of the UK Labour Party. LABOUR PARTY leader Chris Hipkins has travelled to the United Kingd… Read More

Auckland lawyer and Zionist Juliet Moses shares a laugh with a fellow right wing fanatic about exploding pagers. The target of their 'mirth' is an Otago University professor. THE… Read More

 Apparently, there's a funny side to exploding pagers that kill and injure people. Just ask right wing journalist and Zionist supporter Sean Plunket...RASHIDA TLAIB IS the first… Read More

 Auckland lawyer Juliet Moses has defended and cheered Israel's terrorist act on Lebanese soil, that has killed nine people and injured over 3,000. Isn't it time that the Securit… Read More

During the presidential debate, Kamala Harris hammered the theme of change. But is she offering anything new? TO A corporate media all too often obsessed with easy headlines and tempting cli… Read More

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's support for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has had a mixed reaction from the American left. Has AOC sold out, as some of her critics claim?AFTER A… Read More

Over the years, there have been several attempts to establish a new political party to the left of Labour. In the face of a new neoliberal offensive from the present National-led coalition g… Read More

The denial of tea and toast to new mothers has prompted wider criticism of the Government's austerity agenda.  THERE WAS much outrage expressed in the social media over the weekend afte… Read More

While the old Soviet Union had its five-year plans, Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop wants a thirty-year plan for New Zealand. The alternative, which none of the parliamentary political… Read More

 Last week's radio survey revealed Newstalk ZB remains New Zealand’s top commercial radio station.  But its conservative views mean it's largely preaching to the converted. A… Read More

The new Human Rights Commissioner Stephen Rainbow has defended Israel's genocidal military assault on Gaza, but still thinks he will be 'a good defender of human rights.'THE COALITION govern… Read More

 The genocide being committed in Gaza by Israel is not an aberration, says Rania Khalek, it's the result of U.S.-led imperialism.THE US ruling class is sick.I often wonder, have they co… Read More

While Labour and the Green's might be critical of the coalition government's new sanctions regime for beneficiaries, the sanction framework was still in place when Labour left office in Octo… Read More

 The solution to New Zealand's energy woes is to re-nationalise the energy industry. So why are none of our politicians advocating it? ALTHOUGH IT hasn't been described as such in… Read More

 According to Auckland Zionist Juliet Moses, Israel's targeted assassination of journalists in Gaza is justified because they're not actually journalists.LAST WEEK, two Al Jazeera journ… Read More

While the United States continues its efforts to overthrow the democratically elected Venezuelan government, it is implicated in Israel's assassination of a political leader in another count… Read More

Nicolas Maduro has been re-elected President of Venezuela. The US-backed opposition and the corporate media have claimed the result was rigged, even though over 800 independent observers wer… Read More

The Minister for Social Development forgot an appointment this week. But, unlike beneficiaries, Louise Upston won't be facing any consequences for failing to show up.THIS WEEK, Minister for… Read More

A reactionary Democratic Party elite and their wealthy corporate backers have probably already given Donald Trump a second term in the White House. IN A COUNTRY where a former President… Read More

Are Donald Trump and his supporters looking to Adolf Hitler for inspiration? I SAW TWO talking heads on CNN this morning, a former Democratic Party strategist and a former Republican Pa… Read More

If Joe Biden remains the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, it may not be his age and apparent failing cognitive abilities that lose him the election. It may be his support for Israe… Read More

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UK Labour won a landslide victory, with just one third of the popular vote. It's a shallow victory and spells danger for Keir Starmer if his Labour Government fails to deliver for the workin… Read More

 Joe Biden's disastrous support for Israel's genocidal war in Gaza has already lost him electoral support. He can't afford to be dogged with persistent questions about his age and cogni… Read More

 2023 was the hottest year on record, but we're still not doing enough to fight climate change. Michael Roberts writes that our present economic system is dragging the planet over the c… Read More

Despite the best efforts of the right-wing media, Christopher Luxon and his National-led coalition government remain unpopular.DESPITE THE best efforts of the right-wing media to talk up the… Read More

Fault Lines is Al Jazeera English’s Emmy and Peabody award-winning documentary program.Fault Lines worked with journalists in Gaza over the course of several months to follow thre… Read More

Although she failed to bring about the fundamental economic and political change that she promised for New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern has been named the leader of a new project designed to 'cha… Read More

This week, Labour leader Chris Hipkins has suggested that a future Labour Government would not necessarily restore the climate change policies that the present coalition government is busy o… Read More

The job of Climate Change Minister Simon Watts is to peddle the fiction that his government is taking climate change seriously. But he's been called out by young activists from School Strike… Read More

 The Minister of Resources, Shane Jones, wants to 'turbocharge the economy' at the expense of the planet.  A lot of people don't agree with him.AS THE LEVEL OF protest against the… Read More

At nearly 500 pages, Mixing Pop and Politics is a big read, writes Vicky Wilson, but it's a reminder that music has always been political.  While there are still injustices in the worl… Read More

 With the National-led coalition intent on pursuing environmentally damaging economic policies, the time is now to propose an alternative that doesn't put the interests of an economic e… Read More

Is the leadership of Te Pati Maori really acting in the best interests of working class Maori?THE MANIFESTO of Te Pati Maori includes policies that many struggling New Zealanders would ident… Read More

ABBY MARTIN is joined by Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine, to discuss the mounting legal case against Israel, the ICC issuing arrest warrants, and her UN… Read More

While the Minister of Mining might want to use Blackball's past to justify his damaging mining policies of today, its history also offers a new way forward for the New Zealand left today. Bu… Read More

Is Marama Davidson the right person to co-lead the Green Party into the next election, given her cosy relationship with the previous Labour Government and her support for the incrementalist… Read More

UK economist and commentator Grace Blakeley is something of a rising star of the British left.  She is one of only a handful of economists who writes from a Marxist perspective and her… Read More

JOURNALIST ABBY MARTIN joins two propagandists for the Israeli Government on Piers Morgan Uncensored.Morgan is clearly shocked that the spokesperson for the Israeli Government, Avi Hyder, a… Read More

The New Zealand economy is in bad shape and the mood of the nation is increasingly sour. But while a growing number of New Zealanders are doing it hard, the corporate sector continues to mak… Read More

Julie Ann Genter's only 'crime' has been to upset parliamentary sensibilities. But with a recent poll revealing that more than half of all New Zealanders think the system is rigged in favour… Read More