Platform
According to the party's official website,
| “ | The Workers Party of New Zealand is a socialist political party active in campaigns nationwide. We aim to build a new political movement based on the interests of workers in New Zealand and internationally. Our activities include organising in workplaces, campaigning against imperialism and fielding candidates in local and general elections. | ” |
The five-point policy platform of the Workers Party is as follows:
- Opposition to all New Zealand and Western intervention in the Third World and all Western military alliances.
- Secure jobs for all with a living wage and a shorter working week.
- For the unrestricted right of workers to organise and take industrial action and no limits on workers' freedom of speech and activity.
- For working class unity and solidarity – equality for women, Maori and other ethnic minorities and people of all sexual orientations and identities; open borders and full rights for migrant workers.
- For a working people's republic.
The party's magazine The Spark states that the party wants: "A world without poverty and war, a world of material abundance where human potential can be expressed in full," adding that "While these ideas appear untenable today, they were the notions that inspired revolutions in the 20th century."
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