By M. Peterson The long-awaited changes to New Zealand’s disability funding system were announced yesterday by Louise Upston. The Minister for Disability Issues claimed that the government has taken time to work through reforms aimed at creating a more consistent, […]
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By Elliot Crossan New York City is the beating heart of the global capitalist system. It is the wealthiest city in the world, home to more billionaires and millionaires than any other city by a significant margin; the diplomatic centre
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By Elliot Crossan It’s a tale of two cities; a tale of two countries. On 10th June, the National Business Review (NBR) released its 2025 Rich List profiling the richest people in Aotearoa. A few days later, rangatahi in Auckland
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By Elliot Crossan The eyes of the world are on Donald Trump once again. The world’s most successful attention-seeker has us all transfixed. It’s a story that has been all too familiar since the real estate mogul-turned-demagogue launched his first
System Change Aotearoa was invited by the New Zealand Federation of Socialist Societies to contribute to the ‘What Is to Be Done?’ edition of the Commonweal journal. Elliot Crossan submitted the following article in January on behalf of our organisation. The
What Is to Be Done? Taking the Fight to the Coalition in 2025 Read More »
Elliot Crossan interviews Nadia Abu-Shanab Last week, Israel unilaterally ended its ceasefire deal with Hamas just two months after it was signed. 730 Palestinians have been killed and 1,367 injured in Gaza since. Nadia Abu-Shanab is a member of Justice
By M. Peterson 2025 has already been a turbulent year, and looks set to continue that way. It began in January with the wildfires that engulfed Los Angeles county, killing at least 29 people and forcing more than 200,000 to
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By Evelyn Henare Last week, myself and many others watched in horror as members of Destiny Church, a far-right, fundamentalist cult led by self-appointed Archbishop Brian Tamaki, attacked a Pride event in Auckland. This violent attack has left much of
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By Elliot Crossan Being a revolutionary can be a lonely experience. To look at the world and see all the oppression, the injustice, the various crises faced by our society — it is overwhelming. To sit scrolling through horrific images
An Ode to Solidarity and Organisation: Review of Pride (2014) Read More »
Submissions have reopened on the Treaty Principles Bill after a record-breaking number of submissions crashed the Parliament website. If you have not done so already, you now have until 1pm on Tuesday 14th January to submit. System Change Aotearoa made
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