Socialist Worker (Aotearoa) Explained
Socialist Worker (SW) was a socialist organisation based in New Zealand (Aotearoa).
Socialist Worker began to grow modestly through work done in workers' organisations such as the Solidarity Union,[1] Unite Union,[2] the Climate Change Coalition Climaction,[3] the anti-war movement and the Venezuela Aotearoa Solidarity Team.[4]
Socialist Worker had a regularly updated blog called UnityAotearoa.[5]
SW's national conference in February 2007 adopted a new ten point "Where We Stand" programme.[6]
SW was part of the International Socialist Tendency (IST). On 1 May 2007, it presented a May Day Statement to the IST, calling for a positive engagement with the Venezuelan Revolution.[7]
A number of SW members split from the organisation in 2008 to form Socialist Aotearoa.[8]
SW voted to dissolve itself at its conference in January 2012.[9]
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- Web site: What is Solidarity Union, and what does it do?. Solidarity. 24 May 2011.
- Web site: Home. Unite. 24 May 2011.
- Web site: Climaction . https://archive.today/20070701124246/http://www.climaction.org.nz/ . 1 July 2007 . dead.
- Web site: Home. Venezuela Aotearoa Solidarity Team. 24 May 2011.
- Web site: Home. Unity. 24 May 2011.
- Web site: WHERE WE STAND: Socialist Worker's ten-point programme. 11 March 2007. Unity. 24 May 2011.
- Web site: May Day statement by central committee of Socialist Worker-New Zealand. 6 May 2007. Unity. 24 May 2011.
- Web site: Open Letter to Socialist Aotearoa (May 2008). Workers Party New Zealand . 1 May 2008 . 6 September 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100724085635/http://workersparty.org.nz/resources/open-letter-to-socialist-aotearoa-may-2008/. 24 July 2010. dmy.
- Web site: Resolution of 2012 conference of Socialist Worker . 29 January 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130504223334/http://unityaotearoa.blogspot.co.nz/2012/01/resolution-of-2012-conference-of.html . 4 May 2013 . dead . dmy .
