Socialism, Democracy and the Labour Party
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SOCIALISM,
DEMOCRACY and the LABOUR PARTY
· Is there anything
socialist or democratic about Labour?
· What would a
real socialist party look like?
· What would a socialist
government be like?
PANEL
Jill Ovens, Northern Regional
Secretary of the Service & Food Workers Union, Labour Party
member (speaking in a personal capacity).
Oliver Woods,
Auckland University Students Association Executive, Labour
Party member (speaking in a personal capacity).
Coral
Wynter, Member of Australia's Democratic Socialist
Perspective and Green Left Weekly reporter in
Venezuela.
David Colyer, Member of Socialist Worker
(never been a Labour Party member).
7:30pm, Wednesday May
30
Room 1, Unite Union, top floor 300 Queen St
Every New Zealand Labour Party member has a party
card claiming their party stands for "democratic socialist
principles".
According to Labours Constitution and Rules,
it aims:
To educate the public in the principles and
objectives of democratic socialism and economic and social
co-operation. These principles and objectives include: equal
access to all social, economic, cultural, political and
legal spheres, regardless of wealth or social position
People are always more important than property and the state
must ensure a just distribution of wealth The Treaty of
Waitangi should be honoured in government, society and the
family.
Seven years of Labour government has seen: growing inequality, soaring profits, while wages stagnate, house prices spiralling out of reach, rising fees for education, confiscation of Maori rights to the seabed and foreshore, plus more restrictions on workers' right to strike.
ENDS
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