For centuries, capitalists have claimed that the working class need capitalism because it guarantees our freedom from tyranny and from encroachment into our personal liberties.  The capitalist free ma...

This article was originally published 4 August 2025 in Salient under the title “It’s Right to Strike!”. It has since been edited and updated. On 30 June more than 36,000 nurses, midwives, health care ...

Under the veil of an almost complete Internet blackout, the situation on the ground in Iran is impossible to meaningfully engage with at this moment. The mass protests seem to have quietened, though t...

Thousands of people braved sub-zero temperatures to join the demonstration

The following article was written after the 9 January Firefighters’ strike. The Ōtepoti Dunedin strike was attended by ISO members, including ISO editor Oscar Bartle, who conducted an interview with t...

The following is a statement from the Iranian Revolutionary Marxist Tendency (IRMT). The IRMT was founded in early 1979, initially under the name Iranian Socialist Workers’ Party.

rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century

The following is the minimally edited transcript of an interview conducted in October/November 2025. A short commentary article based on this interview was previously published on this website and in ...

The 23 October public sector strike was the largest industrial action taken in Aotearoa since the one-day General strike in 1979. On 28 October Te Whanganui-a-Tara branch of the International Socialis...

Compartimos para interés de nuestrxs lectores, una entrevista a Grant, de Aotearoa-Nueva Zelanda, quien es un activista socialista del sindicato de enfermeros Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) para conocer el impacto y la situación de la reciente huelga de trabajadores del sector público más grande de los últimos 40 años. Más allá de las importantes diferencias que mantenemos con la Organización Socialista Internacional (ISO), esta entrevista nos permite conocer y tener una visión de la situación de Aotearoa - Nueva Zelanda, la resistencia Māori, la cuestión palestina y la lucha de clases.

Transgender-questioning youth in Aotearoa will now be denied access to the “pause button” of puberty blockers – denied the option to delay their puberty by a few years while they come to grips with an...

To quote from the 2025 Aerospace Summit website, New Zealand is a “global space leader”. Our low population density and open skies make us the perfect arena, in logistical terms, for testing and launc...

On 19th March around 40 people rallied outside the Court of Appeal in Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington in support of Uber drivers. The rally called by First Union, which has more than a thousand Uber ...

In a historic victory for the left, Catherine Connolly won the presidential election in Ireland, becoming the first left candidate to win a majority of votes in a national election. Green Left’s Isaac...

In the late 1950s in Fiji, the cost of living was rising. Indigenous Fijian workers, along with the formerly indentured Indo-Fijian workforce, chafed under the exploitation of the colonial, capitalist...

Papers released earlier this year have revealed the government’s plan to cut words in te Reo Māori from primary school curricula. According to a Ministry of Education report in August, te Reo Māori wi...

Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist and the Democratic nominee, will be New York City’s next mayor, after trouncing former Governor Andrew Cuomo in a primary and general election double whamm...

New Zealand’s streets filled with nurses, doctors, teachers, healthcare assistants, public workers, and firefighters on October 23 in a massive one-day strike demanding that the government fully fund ...

The following is a lightly edited version of a public talk given to the Tāmaki Makaurau branch in March 2025. If you are attending a meeting of the International Socialist Organisation then we are goi...

ISO writer Romany Tasker-Poland talks to ALRANZ co-President Alma de Anda about the misleading anti-abortion organisations springing up around the country. Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zeala...

The demonstration is one of the most tried-and-true tools in the collective political toolbox. A well-placed, well-timed protest can do anything from disrupting industry, to undermining a country’s po...