Anti-Capitalists standing in 8 electorates

In this election the only party which will be challenging the capitalists across the country will be the Anti-Capitalist Alliance. Moreover, our candidates don’t just pop up at election time. They are involved in campaigning all year round for the rights of workers and against all forms of oppression and discrimination.

The five-point platform of the ACA forms the basis of our election campaign. (See below candidates list). These are the core ideas on which we want to build a new political movement. In addition, we will be challenging the propaganda of the capitalist parties, taking up immediate issues which confront workers and generally promoting the idea that we need to get rid of capitalism and establish a working people’s republic.

Workers desperately need a political movement of our own. A movement which puts our interests first because it is a movement by, for and of us. Since the system we live under, capitalism, is based on our exploitation, such a movement needs to be explicitly anti-capitalist. It needs to aim for the overthrow of the capitalist system and its replacement by a new truly socialist society, based on organising production to meet the human needs of all rather than private profit for a super-rich few.

That’s the kind of movement the Anti-Capitalist Alliance is trying to build from one end of New Zealand to the other, especially in workplaces and working class communities. One part of building such a movement is running in elections, to challenge the parties which defend and manage exploitation and oppression and to get our ideas out to the widest possible audience.

The Anti-Capitalist Alliance Candidates

Auckland ph 0211867450

Mangere Mark Muller —Storeman, delegate & executive member National Distribution Union 0211222789

Mt Albert Daphna Whitmore —Nurse, delegate NZ Nurses Organisation 0211867450

Hamilton ph 8565412

Hamilton East– Jared Phillips—Sessional Assistant (Tutor), Association University Staff member

Wellington ph 0274918749

Wellington Central Stephen Hay—,VUWSA campaigns coordinator, Unite union volunteer organiser 0212104414

Mana Jasmine Freemantle—tutor, Volunteer organiser for Unite union

Christchurch ph 021443948

Christchurch East Paul Hopkinson—Teacher, member PPTA 021454037

Wigram Sam Kingi—Factory Worker, Unite union volunteer organiser 0211250819

Christchurch Central Byron Clark—Laid-off factory worker, Unite union volunteer organiser

WHAT WE STAND FOR:

1 Opposition to all New Zealand and Western intervention in the Third World and all Western military alliances.

2 Jobs for all with a living wage and shorter working week.

3 For the unrestricted right of workers to organise and take industrial action and no limits on workers’ freedom of speech and activity.

4 For working class unity and solidarity – equality for women, Maori and other ethnic minorities and gay men and women; open borders and full rights for migrant workers.

5 For a working people’s republic.

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