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Revolutionary socialists active in Aotearoa for workers’ power and liberation from oppression. Founded 1993.
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Issue 25 Editorial | Vote Out the Government – Build a Socialist Alternative Image description Toitū te Tiriti protest gathering at Parliament, Wellington. A crowd of people are carrying Te Kara and Tino Rangatiratanga flags. The beehive building is in the background behind some trees. Overlaid text: “Vote Out the Government – Build a Socialist Alternative”. ISO fist logo and website (iso.org.nz) is in the top left corner. Image description Text post with red background and white text: The words on the cover of this issue of The Socialist urge readers to Vote Out the Government and Build a Socialist Alternative. This is a call to action: a call against abstentionism from voting, and crucially, towards a view of politics where voting once every three years is a minuscule portion of one’s political activity. Heading into the 2026 General Election, the wish at the forefront of the majority of the working class is quite simply: we need to change the government. We need to vote out the right-wing bloodsuckers who are preying on Māori, on women workers, and the working class as a whole. And they’re right to want this. The current coalition government is fiercely reactionary, and its base is made of wealthy capitalists who want nothing more than to see an increasingly desperate pool of workers who will fight amongst themselves for the scraps of the wealth that they themselves produce. Header text: “international socialist organisation aotearoa.” ISO logo in the bottom right. Image description Text post with red background and white text: Binning the current parasitic lot may only introduce a spineless batch of “centrists,” but a centrist government which sees workers as at least part of their political base, and will occasionally act to appease that base, will shift the conditions under which we organise in our favour. Not far, perhaps, but given that our task is to organise a fragmented and atomised vanguard of the working class, we ought to take any action that can shift our line forward, however modest. Any meaningful change will be built by the social movements that can grow and challenge the restraints of those conditions. Obviously, though, a change of governm Red tinted image of Toitū te Tiriti protesters at Parliament. Text: “Issue 25 Editorial | Vote Out the Government – Build a Socialist Alternative” by @isoaotearoa
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📰 October 2026 issue out now! Issue 25 of The Socialist looks toward the upcoming New Zealand general election, noting the relevance of this election for a battered working class, while recognising the necessity of building working class strength beyond the election regardless of the election result: “Vote Out the Government! Build a Socialist Alternative!” Articles include: “Labour Pitches Right In Wellington,” “Genocide Versus the ‘Basics’,” and the critical necessity of “Revolution in New Zealand.” The Socialist is available from ISO members, in our meetings, and at stalls and rallies. A subscription option is also available on our website (🔗 link in bio) Image description: cover of “The Socialist”, the newspaper of the ISO. Black and white image of Christopher Luxon with his eyes crossed over with black marker. Red and blue images of protests in the background, in addition to the Beehive. Text of title of the issue and highlighted articles are also on the cover. Cover of “The Socialist”, the ISO newspaper, with an image of Christopher Luxon. by @isoaotearoa
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WHERE WE STAND | The political views of the International Socialist Organisation Aotearoa (Updated Jan 2026)

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Image 1: Dark red background with white text. Header at top reads “international socialist organisation aotearoa”. Title reads “Where we stand”. Text at bottom reads “socialism, workers’ power, liberation from oppression, revolution not reformism, internationalism, tino rangatiratanga, environment, revolutionary organisation.“

Image 2: Red tinted background image of raised fists. Header in white reads “international socialist organisation aotearoa”. White footer has ISO raised fist logo in red on left, “where we stand” red text on right. Body text reads: socialism. Capitalism is a system of crisis, exploitation and war in which production is for profit - not for human need. Although workers create society’s wealth, they have no control over its production or distribution. A new society can only be built when workers collectively seize control of that wealth and create a new state in which they will make the decisions about the economy, social life and the environment. Continued in comments. White text on dark red background reads: international socialist organisation aotearoa. where we stand. socialism, workers’ power, liberation from oppression, revolution not reformism, internationalism, tino rangatiratanga, environment, revolutionary organisation. by @isoaotearoa
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Revolution in New Zealand by Oscar Bartle 
Full article on website (🔗link in bio) Image description Red graphic of a silhouette of a group of revolutionaries with flags and batons. Overlaid text: “Revolution in New Zealand”. ISO fist logo and website (iso.org.nz) is in the top left corner. Image description Text: As the centre-left and the right contend for parliamentary power in the 2026 general election, people living in New Zealand, especially the working class, are broadly dissatisfied. Despite this, revolution is not on the minds of the majority. New Zealand capitalism recently has been, by capitalist standards, fairly stable, with no major crises or upheavals. Class struggle is low. The unions are weak, highly cautious, and are overly influenced by the right-wing Labour Party. Internationally, and increasingly at home, the far right explains the deprivations of capitalism, with racism, bigotry, anti-migration, and even anti-socialist rhetoric. In doing so, they turn ordinary people against each other, annihilating solidarity and making capitalist exploitation easier. The socialist left, tiny and fragmented, is in no position to get our message out, let alone offer a serious political alternative. In this climate, it should come as no surprise that many do not feel that a fundamentally better world is possible. Fewer still have an understanding of socialism and believe revolution is necessary or even on the table. Header text: “international socialist organisation aotearoa.” Red footer with website (iso.org.nz) and ISO logo on the right. Image description Text: Capitalism is unsustainable. Capitalism is the system which fundamentally governs every country across the globe. It is a system of class domination and rule. A system where a tiny minority, the capitalists, get rich through owning and controlling production and property. They own large businesses, supermarkets, mines, factories, offices, and pay workers far less than the value they themselves generate. Then there are capitalists in non-productive markets, such as landlords, who hoard and restrict access to housing and land, extorting rent. Both sustain their class position through the exploitat Red graphic of silhouette of revolutionaries. Text: “Revolution in New Zealand” by @isoaotearoa
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ISO member Robin Wilkins on Labour's shameful tertiary education policy. Video description Man wearing a red coat with a black T-shirt underneath and grey-green pants speaks to the camera in multiple outdoor scenes with a greenery background. The video is dynamic with the speaker jumping into the frame and speaking while walking, standing, and sitting. by @isoaotearoa
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ISO Coordinating Committee member @oscar_bartle on @chloe.swarbrick's recent interview with @2youngtovote. The full interview can be found on the 2youngtovote YouTube and elsewhere. None of this is to say don't vote green. The greens are a very supportable option, and we have to kick this government out. What we are saying is that presently all the parties represent one or the other brand of capitalism. We're saying that voting can't be the extent of our political activity, and we need to build a socialist alternative. Video description Man with dark hair, glasses, and a beard, wearing a grey coat with a blue t-shirt speaks to the camera. He is indoors and has a while wall as a background. by @isoaotearoa
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✍️ Welcoming letters to the editors for issue 27 of The Socialist! Send us your questions, praise, criticism, or small conversation pieces. ✉️ Email contact@iso.org.nz with subject line “Letter to the Editors” by Sunday 1 November to be included in issue 27. Maximum 300 words. 📌 We may include letters received after the deadline in future issues. We reserve the right to exercise discretion in publication and abridging as necessary. - Image description: a mesh pen cup filled with red pencils against a white background. Title in black and red writing had the words “Letters to the Editors”. Text at the bottom with details as in caption. by @isoaotearoa
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The Battle to Bring In MMP by Alex Moore 
Full article on website (🔗link in bio) This image includes part of Office of the Clerk/Parliamentary Services’ image of MMP campaign materials which is licensed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives and/or the Parliamentary Corporation on behalf of Parliamentary Service for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. Image description Red tinted image of various campaign materials for and against instituting MMP in New Zealand. Six pamphlets, three for MMP (“Women and MMP”, “Vote for a better Future”, “Why you should vote for MMP”) and three against (“More MPs, More Costs”, “Tick the top box, Reject MMP”, “Am I mad or are the proposed electoral changes just plain stupid???”). Overlaid text: “The Battle to Bring In MMP”. ISO fist logo and website (iso.org.nz) is in the top left corner. Image description Text: From 1853 until 1993, New Zealanders participating in national elections cast their vote under a First Past the Post (FPP) system, in which each voter chose their preferred candidate for the electorate they lived in. The “winner” of the election was the party that won the most electorates, even if they had not gotten a majority of the vote on a national level. There has been a consistent feeling in Aotearoa that FPP led to a government that strangled smaller parties and was not representative of the people. In 1887, a bill was put forward to institute a Single Transferable Vote (STV) system, where each person votes in the form of a ranked ballot. From 1908 to 1913, candidates had to get over 50 percent of the vote in their electorate to be elected. In their 1916 founding constitution, the Labour Party advocated for proportional representation, but this facet of their platform was quietly phased out when they started becoming successful under FPP in the 1930s. Header text: “international socialist organisation aotearoa.” Red footer with website (iso.org.nz) and ISO logo on the right. Image description Text: Anger towards the electoral system reached a boiling point when the National Party won the 1978 and 1981 general elections despite winning less of the overall vote than Lab Red tinted image of MMP campaign placards. Text: “The Battle to Bring In MMP” by @isoaotearoa
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@rosiematilda1 on the protests and strikes in Spain. Solidarity with the protesters, down with the landlords and property investors! Video description Woman with blonde hair speaking into a small handheld microphone while looking at the camera. She has an outdoor background of a painted green brick wall, a corrugated iron fence, greenery, and blue sky. by @isoaotearoa
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@oscar_bartle on the strikes and protests in France, and lessons for NZ. If you're interested in joining the ISO (the socialists) or want to learn more, message the page or email contact@iso.org.nz. Video description A man outdoors wearing a brown shirt and glasses speaks to the camera with a background of greenery and blue sky. Protest imagery and news headline appear throughout the video. by @isoaotearoa
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Genocide Versus “The Basics” by Serah Allison 
Full article on website (🔗link in bio) Original image credit: Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) in contract with APAimages, CC BY-SA 3.0. Wikimedia Commons. Image modified by the ISO. Image description Red tinted image of a building surrounded by smoke and flames in Gaza City, 7 October 2023. Overlaid text: “Genocide Versus “The Basics””. ISO fist logo and website (iso.org.nz) is in the top left corner. Image description Text: The National Party is the principal partner in this three-way unnatural disaster that is the current governing coalition of New Zealand. The Party’s website claims its focus is on “fixing the basics and building the future.” We might reasonably ask: what are these “basics” that they’re claiming to be “fixing”? Basic humanity, perhaps? If only. The United Nations has a “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” document, adopted in 1948, which it claims sets out “fundamental human rights to be universally protected.” We certainly can criticise the United Nations for a great many things, but in fairness this document contains some decent and positive statements which we’d agree with – such as “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person.” And “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” And “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.” Header text: “international socialist organisation aotearoa.” Red footer with website (iso.org.nz) and ISO logo on the right. Image description Text: Terms we might reasonably consider to be some of “the basics” of human life and dignity, and, given that New Zealand is a member of the UN, a part of the international framework to which you’d expect our government would subscribe. This coalition government came to power very shortly after the 7 October 2023 events that led to a three-year (and still counting) sustained onslaught against the people of Gaza which has quite clearly been, and continues to be, a genocide. What has this government done? According to John Hobbs, writing for E-Tangata, “The New Zealand government has remained silent on the issue Red tinted image of a building in Gaza surrounded by smoke. Text: Genocide Versus “The Basics” by @isoaotearoa
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This reel "How We Counter Fascism" by ISO Coordinating Committee member Serah Allison ( @lightersinapark ) is drawn from an article of the same title published in issue 24 of The Socialist newspaper. To read the article online or subscribe to the newspaper visit iso.org.nz or follow the link in today's story. Video description Woman with brown hair wearing a black T-shirt speaks to the camera. She has a background of houseplants and then a white wall. by @isoaotearoa
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