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By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 13 June 2023 Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/06/12/cvzr-j12.html In an extraordinary act of retroactive censorship, the state-owned broadcaster Radio New Zealand (RNZ) announced that it has “corrected” 16 of its online articles ...

On June 7, the New Zealand primary teachers’ union NZEI announced that a majority of its membership of about 30,000 teachers had voted to accept a below-inflation pay deal that the union stitched up with the Labour Party-led government.   ...

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By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group There is growing opposition to hundreds of job cuts that have been announced at universities across New Zealand. In response to declining enrolments and years of funding cuts by the Labour government, Otago ...

By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/06/01/sthg-j01.html On May 28, the primary teachers union NZEI cancelled a strike planned for May 31, which had been voted for by a majority of 30,000 teachers. The union bureaucracy ...

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The unions are presenting teachers with one below-inflation agreement after another in an effort to wear down their resistance and force them to accept a wage-cutting deal.

North noted that terms associated with Trotsky’s work, such as “the death agony of capitalism, world socialist revolution, the globalisation of the class struggle, the bankruptcy of the bourgeois nation-state, are eminently applicable to our own time.”

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