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AWSM Newsletter: Solidarity March 2026
Our latest newsletter Solidarity is now available:
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Anarchy Is Not What You Think It Is
For most people, the word anarchy conjures chaos. Burning cars, smashed windows, shouting crowds, the collapse of all restraint. It is a word carefully trained to frighten. Politicians invoke it as a threat, newspapers as a warning, and police as a justification. Anarchy, we are told, is what happens when order disappears. But we are…
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Homes for People, Not Profit: Why Basic Income Won’t End Homelessness
Scoop ran a piece on homelessness and basic income in Aotearoa by Basic Income New Zealand, which does something important – it acknowledges that poverty and housing insecurity are not marginal issues but central political questions. The mere fact that guaranteed income schemes are being discussed in relation to homelessness signals how deep the crisis…
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Another Year, Same System
The New Year arrives each January like an official decree. It is announced by fireworks and by media outlets rehearsing the same tired narrative of fresh starts and personal reinvention. The calendar flips, the numbers change, and we are told that something has begun anew. But for the working class, for the colonised, for those…
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Against the State, Against Electoral Illusions
For much of the socialist movement’s history, the question of the state has acted like a fault line running beneath every strategy, every party, every programme. Again and again, the Left has been pulled back towards the idea that emancipation can be delivered through the machinery of government, that the capitalist state can be captured,…
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The Employment Relations Amendment Bill – A Class War on Workers in Aotearoa
The Employment Relations Amendment Bill currently before Parliament represents one of the most aggressive and naked assaults on working-class power in Aotearoa in a generation. While it has been framed by government ministers and business lobbyists as a necessary “modernisation” of employment law, its real function is far more transparent. This is not about flexibility,…
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“For No War But the Class War”: Reflections on the Inaugural Meeting of the Network of Anarchist Internationalists
The inaugural meeting of the Network of Anarchist Internationalists (NAI), held on 9 November 2025, is to be welcomed. It arrives at a moment when the world is being marched towards deeper militarisation, permanent war, and the normalisation of mass death as a background condition of capitalism. The importance of this meeting is not that…
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A World of Plenty, Organised for Poverty
Extreme inequality is no longer a trend that economists cautiously warn about or a distant moral concern for charity campaigns. It is now the defining feature of global capitalism. The latest World Inequality Report, discussed by Michael Roberts in “Extreme Inequality – and what to do about it”, confirms what working people have long known…
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The Odds Are Better with Revolt: Why Anarchism Beats Lotto Every Time
Last night’s massive Lotto draw was one of those oddly unifying moments in Aotearoa when, for a brief period, the country holds its breath together. The anticipation, the chatter in dairies, the queues for tickets, and the speculative fantasies people share about what they would do with the winnings all point to something far more…
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Symbolic States, Real Genocide: The Empty Politics of Palestine Recognition
The New Zealand government, like many others across the imperialist West, has refused to recognise a Palestinian state. At first glance, this appears to be a diplomatic slight or a moral failure. In truth, it is far deeper, it is the calculated refusal of a settler-colonial state to recognise the legitimacy of another colonised people’s…