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  Communist Party of New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Communist Party of New Zealand was a Communist political party operating in New Zealand.
The Communist Party of New Zealand was established in March 1921, and consisted of former members of the New Zealand Marxian Association (established in 1918).
The members who established the Communist Party were supporters of the Russian Bolsheviks, and remained hostile to those who did not echo this support.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communist_Party_of_New_Zealand   (387 words)

  
 International Socialist Organization (New Zealand) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The founders of the ISO in New Zealand, notably Brian Roper, had developed sympathies with the International Socialism current of Trotskyism while living overseas.
As a result of its own development, the Communist Party of New Zealand was also attracted to the International Socialism current, and developed links with the British Socialist Workers Party, the leading representative of that current.
This meant that there were two competing representatives of the same political ideology in New Zealand, which led to the SWP brokering a fusion between the two groups.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/International_Socialist_Organization_(New_Zealand)   (238 words)

  
 spnz
New Zealand is a small country, slightly larger geographically than the United Kingdom; but, at the end of the 19th century, when socialist ideas first penetrated the country, the population was still less than two million, of whom most were workers, small-scale farmers and Maori tribespeople.
Indeed, evidence of the Socialist Standard in New Zealand early last century, was the discovery, some years ago, of a bound volume of the first six years (1904-1910) of the journal in the Wellington Branch public library.
John McDonald, a member of the Socialist Party of Canada was also invited, in 1921, to New Zealand to speak, not by the Marxian Association, but by the Wellington branch of the newly-formed Communist Party of New Zealand.
www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/nov04/spnz.html   (1825 words)

  
 World Socialist Party - History
The new SPNZ tried to get workers to recognise that it was the private ownership of the means of production that was the cause of their problems, and that only Socialism was the solution.
On the political field, the Party exposed the claims of Labour to be able to govern in the workers' interests, and of the Communist Party that socialism was being built in Russia, both of which were popular views at that time, but are now discredited.
The Communists were easy meat as at that time, they were ultra-patriotic and advocates of increased production, at least until 1947 when it was decreed that "American imperialism" was the main threat to the British Empire, which seemed to upset them.
www.worldsocialism.org /nz/auckland/hist.htm   (1180 words)

  
 IALHI News Service: Socialism in New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Writings on the left in New Zealand have tended to follow two paths: to minimise the influence of socialism or to push a particular line of thought.
On the Left: Essays on Socialism in New Zealand, edited by Pat Moloney and Kerry Taylor, published by University of Otago Press, explores the distinctive character of New Zealand socialism.
Kerry Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in New Zealand History and Politics at Massey University, Palmerston North.
www.ialhi.org /news/i0212_2.html   (414 words)

  
 POLITICAL PARTIES - COMMUNIST PARTY - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
The party issued a manifesto based on the 1903 Bolshevik one, which emphasised the socialist revolution, the overthrow of the power of the capitalists, and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
The Labour Party did not proceed along the road to complete socialism as far or as fast as the Communists wished, and as the Communist Party was losing ground in the unions, its members began to contest parliamentary elections.
The party candidates have never been close to winning a seat but their numbers have steadily grown from three candidates in the 1946 elections to 23 at the 1963 elections where 5,167 votes were cast for them, being 0·26 per cent of the total votes cast.
www.teara.govt.nz /1966/P/PoliticalParties/CommunistParty/en   (809 words)

  
 REX CHELL HOLLISS 26
The main factor was the necessary concentration of the CPNZ Central Committee on giving communist leadership in the class struggle within New Zealand, in line with Lenin's thesis that the internationalist duty of communists is expressed first and foremost by bringing the socialist revolution closer in their own countries.
This new formulation by Alia and Co is in essence identical to the "state of all the people" that the Khrushchevites claimed to be constructing as a more "democratic" replacement for the dictatorship of the proletariat of the Stalin era.
Stalin suggested to Hoxha in 1947 that the Communist Party of Albania be re-named the Party of Labour to clearly reflect this lack of proletarians in the country and consequently the party.
harikumar.brinkster.net /AllianceIssues/ALL38REXH.html   (17811 words)

  
 New Zealand - Topix.net
Government is to reach out to South Africans living in New Zealand to enhance the relations between the two countries.
Rookie New Zealand golfer Brad Iles continued his excellent start to the professional ranks, firing a third round 67 today to set up another healthy payday at the Johnnie Walker Classic in Perth.
Tucked behind a small green ridge just north of New Plymouth, the men of rig 19 are fitting a device to stop an explosion of natural gas from racing up the hole and destroying their machinery.
rss.topix.net /rss/world/new-zealand.xml   (302 words)

  
 The Militant - September 2, 2002 -- Labour Party wins New Zealand vote
AUCKLAND, New Zealand--The governing Labour Party was returned to office in general elections in New Zealand July 27 with a higher share of the vote and three more seats in the 120-member parliament.
The vote for the National Party, the traditional party of the ruling class in New Zealand and the governing party for most of the post-World War II period, plummeted to 21 percent, its lowest since the party was founded in 1935.
The most notable outcome of the election was the resurgence in support for the rightist New Zealand First Party, which increased its share of the vote from 4 percent to 10 percent, and more than doubled its parliamentary seats to 13.
www.themilitant.com /2002/6633/663311.html   (1095 words)

  
 Introduction by Daphna Whitmore
It is based on a reply to a former member of the now-defunct Communist Party of New Zealand (in which the author earlier played a leading role) and whose letter contained criticisms of the standpoint of the Workers’ Party of New Zealand as published in the party’s monthly journal, The Spark of April 1994.
To us of the Workers’ Party of New Zealand, the main Marxist doctrines of prehistory are still, as elucidated in Origin, fundamentally correct, and serve as a scientific basis for understanding Maori prehistoric culture and society from the standpoint of Marxism as opposed to that of bourgeois anthropology.
The New Zealand Polynesians were experienced and sophisticated horticulturalists before the arrival of Europeans in the country.
home.clear.net.nz /pages/wpnz/maori.htm   (12257 words)

  
 Declaration of the 25th CPNZ National Conference: STALINISM: State Capitalism in Russia
In January 1992, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of New Zealand came to the conclusion that the “capitalist counter-revolution” in Russia had begun in the Stain era, not with Khrushchev in the 1950s as the CPNZ had previously asserted.
The CPNZ’s 25th National Conference in September 1993 passed a resolution condemning Stalinism as the “gravedigger of the Bolshevik Revolution” and the “builder of state capitalism” in the Soviet Union.
The CPNZ’s contribution to the growth of mass movements was based on the party’s commitment to helping the working class become the ruling class so it could pave the way to classless society.
home.mira.net /~andy/bs/1993nz.htm   (1459 words)

  
 Interview with Bill Bland, 10th July 1994
Then when the Communist Party Great Britain line came out they decided they'd been wrong, and so they changed their line to it being a just war on the part of the Allies.
When the Chinese party began to publish criticisms of the British Road, of the peaceful transition and also of the 20th Congress that there was any sort of movement within the party.
The New Communist Party was holding a meeting on Yugoslavia, and they had got together all the people who are supportive of the view of the Yugoslav government to present their case.
website.lineone.net /~comleague/intercom/blandint.html   (6755 words)

  
 What's New - New Zealand History website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand - Photographs, sounds, moving images, documents, graphs and maps are combined with text in Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
The first group of entries, about the people of New Zealand, and an overview, New Zealand In Brief, are just the beginning of what will become a comprehensive guide to the natural environment, history, culture, economics, institutions, peoples and social development of this country published over the next.
Anzac Day: A Guide for New Zealanders - Launched by the Ministry on 18 April 2005 to mark the 90th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings, this website includes information on the significance of Anzac Day, how we commemorate it today and a virtual guide of the Gallipoli peninsula.
www.nzhistory.net.nz /WhatNewContentFrame.html   (1144 words)

  
 POLITICAL PARTIES - SOCIALIST - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
The first socialist groups in New Zealand were formed in the late eighteen-nineties – Fabian Societies in Dunedin and Christchurch, a Socialist Church in Christchurch, and a Clarion Club and, later, a Socialist League in Wellington.
A political party, the New Zealand Socialist Party, was not formed until July 1901, following the arrival of almost 200 British socialists, the so-called “Clarion Settlers”, led by W. Ranstead.
The party never resolved the conflict between the moderates who were anxious to work for immediate reforms through Parliament, local bodies, and trade unions, and the so-called “impossibilists” who would accept nothing short of full socialism and “bloody revolution”.
www.teara.govt.nz /1966/P/PoliticalParties/SocialistnzParty/en   (722 words)

  
 V. G. Wilcox, Speech at the party school of the Kwangtung Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China
The Communist Party of New Zealand in its congress decision last year recognized this and we are fighting for the principles of Marxism-Leninism.
New Zealand is the country that Lenin described as the paradise of the Second International.
Revisionist leaderships of some Communist Parties must be forced, by the offensive of those holding firm to Marxism-Leninism, to allow their membership to read and study not only what revisionism today has to say about Marxism-Leninism and about those who oppose revisionism but also what Marxist-Leninists have to say.
www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/countries/aotearoa/1964wilcox.html   (6432 words)

  
 Obituaries
She and Alec were in the thick of the extraordinarily turbulent Communist politics of the time - when China and the Soviet Union became sworn enemies, in the 1960s, the CPNZ backed China (the others formed the pro-Soviet Socialist Unity Party).
Don Ross told us: "Mollie had given her lifetime to the Communist Party and all the varied campaigns that it was involved in, alongside her late partner Alec Ostler, and following their departure from the CPNZ due to political differences, established with others the Struggle journal of which Alec was the editor.
Whenever I called in there to deliver new issues or collect money (or unsold copies) she was always ready to discuss the general state of the world, and point me in the direction of new reading material.
www.converge.org.nz /watchdog/96/9obitu.htm   (3703 words)

  
 Anti-Fascist Movement in Germany
Organ of the Communist Party of New Zealand
The Communist Party of Germany analyses the struggle against the spread of nazi terror in a report specially written for the New Zealand working class.
The Communist Party of Germany took part in all anti-fascist demonstrations, handing out large numbers of leaflets which showed that big business -- not foreigners -- are responsible for economic problems in Germany.
www.mltranslations.org /Germany/Hypocrite.htm   (797 words)

  
 Anarchism - Indvidualistic Middle Class Trend
Socialism therefore paves the way to communist society, where class differences fade away, leading to the withering away of the state because there won't be any class of would-be exploiters needing to be suppressed by the dictatorship of the proletariat.
But it is the Communist Party, not the anarchist movement, that has shown itself to be the "leader of the opposition" to the line of class collaboration being promoted inside the labour movement by the opportunist leaders of the CTU and Labour Party.
This would shut the mass movement off from the conscious, planned and centralised tactics which the Communist Party is able to introduce as a result of 70 years experience in using Marxist theory to analyse the lessons of the mass movement.
www.mltranslations.org /NewZealand/Anarchism.htm   (3733 words)

  
 Future New Zealand (Dunne) - Psychology Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This party should not be confused with the better-known Future New Zealand, a continuation of the Christian Democrats.
Future New Zealand was the name chosen by Peter Dunne for the party he founded after leaving the Labour Party.
The new party lasted only a short time before being overtaken by United New Zealand, established by a group of centrist MPs from both major parties.
www.grohol.com /psypsych/Future_New_Zealand_%28Dunne%29   (198 words)

  
 Keith Locke - Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Keith was the New Zealand's Herald's Backbencher of the Year 2002.
Primarily a movement activist, Keith was not a member of any political party at the time he went to Canada to study towards his Masters in Sociology at the University of Alberta.
Keith found himself facilitating contacts between a range of New Zealand groups (union, student, women's, peace, church and Maori) and their counterparts in the Philippines.
www.greens.org.nz /people/locke_k.asp   (1444 words)

  
 Scoop: 1 Million Withdraw From Chinese Communist Party
The direct cause of this wave of withdrawals is the “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party” published by The Epoch Times at the end of last year.
In New Zealand, The Epoch Times NZ is organizing a Press Conference at Aotea Square, Auckland on 26th April, 2005.
The significance of the campaign and the fate of the Chinese Communist Party are the hot topic of the world.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PO0504/S00274.htm   (859 words)

  
 AIM25: Institute of Commonwealth Studies: New Zealand: Political Parties Material
Both main electoral parties (the New Zealand Labour Party and the New Zealand National Party) feature significantly, with the most notable of the issues contested being the economy, especially from the 1970s as world events began to intrude upon New Zealand's previous policy of protectionism, and foreign affairs.
That nuclear technology and other environmental issues were becoming significant political factors in New Zealand in the 1970s is shown by the rise of the Values Party.
Outside the realm of electoral politics there are a variety of items produced by right-wing parties of various seriousness, including the National Front and the Imperial British Conservative Party, and a large collection of materials produced by various incarnations of the New Zealand Communist Party.
www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/16/7508.htm   (529 words)

  
 A.R.D. FAIRBURN- NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library
Auckland : Auckland District Party Committee, Communist Party Committee, Communist Party of New Zealand, 1936.
New Zealand poetry : a select bibliography 1920-1972; compiled by Father John E. Weir and Barbara A.
'New Zealand poets in retrospect : eight New Zealand poets, no longer living, are placed in social and poetic context.' Replay Radio, Wellington, 1986.
www.library.auckland.ac.nz /subjects/nzp/nzlit2/fairburn.htm   (622 words)

  
 Channelnewsasia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Some 198 top party officials are meeting in Beijing with hundreds of "leading cadres" for four days of closed-door talks aimed at bolstering the party's fading image.
Speculation has been rife that former party leader Jiang Zemin, 78, is refusing to stand down from his position as commander-in-chief of the military, preventing current party leader and President Hu Jintao, 61, from exercising effective power.
The party mouthpiece People's Daily failed to mention the plenum but prominently ran a story on Jiang signing an environmental regulation to the People's Liberation Army -- seen as a signal that he intends to hang on to his last official post as military chief.
www.channelnewsasia.com /stories/afp_asiapacific/view/107127/1/.html   (696 words)

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