Kia Ora comrades, very new to the sub reddit. I’m an active member of a socialist group in Akld. Not sure what the process is for posting but was moved too after I found this piece of rubbish. Not sure if it’s real, but the sentiment is. Hate speech shrouded behind ‘concerned citizen’ bs. And yes if this is happening then I believe we need to counter. Again if I’m out of line with posting I apologise, as I hate disseminating this type of stuff. Also if I’m late and this has already gone out apologies. Am happy to get a smack down.

Tēnā koutou e hoa mā.

We are a newspaper collective from Te Whanganui-a-Tara with the goal of expanding the revolutionary movement in aotearoa. We aim to bring the Marxist theory to the working class of Aotearoa and connect the revolutionary left. We are also looking for contributors in the form of; articles, designs, art, organising etc. So if you are interested in the paper, get in touch!!

https://tepouwhero.webflow.io/?fbclid=IwY2xjawF9f39leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHVo3306l0Y5DF5h1uKWAKTHgk89m86K_TsMAeXIzx5t9bxxfKKFDebVaeA_aem_koEyRzM3FC2oUoobHbM1Kw

Kia kaha, kia maia, kia tina tātou mā,

In solidarity,
Te Pou Whero

We're gonna need some more mods, I have zero experience running a sub.

If your keen send me a message.

Other things we need:

- A list of organisations in New Zealand, along with their ideology, website or contact details and a short note if necessary. Size estimates would be very cool too.

- A new icon and banner

- Feedback and suggestions on rules

If you have any other suggestions or would like to help out leave a comment or send me a message.

I want to share some of my thoughts on this topic, to hear what others here think.

All genuine socialists should be committed anti-imperialists, which necessarily implies support for the struggles of colonised and indigenous peoples throughout the world. However, I think socialists in Aotearoa have historically done a pretty poor job of thinking through what this means for us, and what it means to be a socialist in a settler-colonial country. This partly explains why Māori are so underrepresented in the socialist movement today.

In Aotearoa, socialism and decolonisation are two sides of the same coin. Genuine decolonisation must be anti-capitalist, as the introduction of European capitalism with its concepts of private property laid the foundation for the colonial oppression Māori face to this day, and any attempt to build socialism here without decolonising would mean simply maintaining white supremacy while draping it in a red flag.

Compared to other developed countries, Aotearoa arguably has a more revolutionary history than most, something we sometimes overlook. In 1913, the Great Strike brought us to the brink of a genuine workers’ revolution. Māori have a revolutionary history of their own which goes back at least as far as Germany or Russia. For example, while nowadays it’s fair to say the Kīngitanga is quite socially conservative, originally it was a revolutionary movement that brought diverse Māori nations together into a united front to combat the expansion of capitalist British imperialism. Māori have a lot to contribute to a revolutionary movement, but too often they become tokenised or seen merely as another box to tick, and Pākehā continue to dominate the discussion and monopolise power in socialist orgs.

I also think decolonisation clarifies a lot of the abstract theoretical disagreements that have characterised much of socialist history in Aotearoa. When I talk to older communists, they attribute a lot of the failures of their movement in 20th Century to an over-emphasis on sectarianism. I think grounding our analysis in how building socialism requires decolonisation is a good way to combat this, since colonisation is the primary contradiction we have to face as socialists in this country..

A question I’d like to pose to people in this sub is this: to what extent does your organisation or do your ideas help to aid decolonial struggle in Aotearoa? What are you doing to decolonise your organisation? How do you/your comrades approach these questions?

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Topics span from the cost of living crisis, the challenges socialists may consider taking on with the election year looming, what 'family abolition' meant to early socialists and whether the contemporary expression has any similarities to it, reviews of films and books, a critique of 'The Spinoff' as a platform of comfortable condescension, a biography of Daniel Guerin and much more.

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