While workers and toilers across Tonga grow sceptical of the king and demand change, the democrats sit on their hands. Yhis election, our message to Tongan workers and toilers is to vote for PTOA candidates, and fight for socialism.

Prof. Futa Helu: "The Tongan government is called a constitutional monarchy, but it is snowed over by cultural conventions, and it is the culture that is running the country now... I see the government expressing a feudal Tongan traditional conventional rule." (1997)

'Eseta Fusitu'a: "His [Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV] authority as King of Tonga far exceeds his authority in the constitution. Ninety percent of the King's authority is not in the constitution, it is in the culture." (1997)

Today, the Human Rights and Democracy Movement is split between the Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands, the People's Democratic Party, and the Tongan People's Party. We say: Tonga needs a socialist party!