The following is a lightly edited speech by IBT supporter Vera Ashborne at a rally for trans healthcare in Wellington, New Zealand on 11 February 2023. Audio of speech also available: Kia ora koutou, my name is Vera Ashborne. I’m speaking here for the International Bolshevik Tendency. We’re here...
Transphobia & Fascism
Wellington’s Civic Square was expected to play host to a gathering of anti-trans feminists, far-right activists and fascists on Sunday 26 March. Instead, the square was filled by thousands of trans and women’s rights supporters—the largest such demonstration in New Zealand history. The rally was organised by a united-front coalition...
Killing with Kindness
A curious contrast of perception grew up around Jacinda Ardern during the five years she spent as prime minister of New Zealand before her resignation in late January. Internationally she had been feted as a celebrity politician and liberal darling, the supposed “world’s anti-Trump” who capably steered New Zealand through...
Test Article – In Journal, Book, And Collection
This is a test article that has been connected to: Journal - "1917 No46" Book - "The Transitional Program" Collection "Origins of the Fourth International" For testing of "Also published in..." in the right sidebar. It has been entered as the last article in each of these. It has also...
Rearranging the Deckchairs
Every six to nine years, the small imperialist state of Aotearoa New Zealand replaces its centre-left governing coalition with a centre-right coalition, or vice-versa. The bell now tolls for the current Labour–Green government, an alliance between a party of the union bureaucracy that long ago traded in its social-democratic programme...