Socialist Worker (Aotearoa)

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Socialist Worker members marching against the Israeli invasion of Lebanon on 5 August 2006 in Queen Street, Auckland.

Socialist Worker (SW) was a socialist organisation based in New Zealand (Aotearoa).

SW evolved out of the group known as the Socialist Workers Organization, the successor organisation of the Communist Party of New Zealand.[citation needed] It had two main branches in Auckland and Wellington, but activists in most other cities in NZ.[citation needed] Recently,[when?] it began to grow modestly through work done in workers' organisations such as the Solidarity Union,[1] Unite Union,[2] the Climate Change Coalition Climaction,[3] the anti-war movement and the Venezuela Aotearoa Solidarity Team.[4]

Many of its key activists were involved in the Residents Action Movement,[citation needed] which polled over 87,000 votes in the 2004 Auckland Regional Council elections.[citation needed]

It published a quarterly themed journal called 'UNITY', and its activists contributed to the monthly Workers' Charter paper.[citation needed] It also had a regularly updated blog called UnityAotearoa.[5]

SW's national conference in February 2007 adopted a new ten point "Where We Stand" programme.[6]

SW was part of the International Socialist Tendency (IST). On 1 May 2007, it presented a May Day Statement to the IST, calling for a positive engagement with the Venezuelan Revolution.[7]

A number of SW members split from the organisation in 2008 to form Socialist Aotearoa.[8]

SW voted to dissolve itself at its conference in January 2012.[9] Its ex-members went on to participate in the EcoSocialist Network.[citation needed]

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