Elliot Blade
Elliot Blade
"Marxism Alive"
In 2009 Delahunty addressed an openly Marxist conference organized by the neo-Trotskyists of Socialist Worker.
From Socialist Worker’s UnityBlog
Speakers from the Alliance Party, Green Party, RAM-Residents Action Movement, Socialist Worker and Workers Party have been confirmed for Marxism Alive, an upcoming educational forums hosted by Socialist Worker-New Zealand. (See list of speakers and topics below.)
Marxism Alive will run from 10am-5pm on Saturday 27 June, @ Socialist Centre, 86 Princes Street, Onehunga, Auckland.
The current global economic crisis will loom large in our discussions. The left has to put forward an ideological, political and organisational challenge to the corporate market if we’re to avoid the crisis being dumped on grassroots people.
Here are the discussion topics and confirmed speakers (we are waiting further confirmations):
Session 1: The great implosion: Economic crisis & its impact on NZ Speaker: Vaughan Gunson (Socialist Worker)
Session 2: Is National the new natural party of government? Will Labour return to social democracy? Panel of speakers: Sarita Divis (Alliance Party), Daphna Whitmore (Workers Party), Grant Brookes (Socialist Worker).
Session 3: Transitioning to a human centred economy in Aotearoa Panel of speakers: Catherine Delahunty (Green Party), Elliot Blade (RAM-Residents Action Movement, David Colyer (Socialist Worker).
Session 4: An International for the 21st century: building a global broad left movement Speaker: Bronwen Beechey (Socialist Worker).[1]
Socialist Aotearoa May Day letter to Helen Kelly
A 2008 letter to CTU President Helen Kelly;
- We would like to extend our solidarity to our hard working junior doctors, whose organisation, the New Zealand Resident Doctors' Association, finds itself attacked by the representative of the Council of Trade Unions for giving "unions a bad name" in the media.
- It is our belief that the job of unions is to represent their members, and not the ruling political party of the day. In that, the NZRDA is to be congratulated for standing up for its workers rights, and it is the CTU leadership that needs a lesson in giving the union movement a good name by supporting rather that attacking those who are in struggle.
- Signed-
- John Minto, Editor of Workers Charter, Unite Workers Union
- Simon Oosterman, Union Organiser, Social Justice activist
- Elliot Blade, University of Auckland Greens on Campus
- Joe Carolan, Socialist Aotearoa
- Meredydd Barrar, Citizens Against Privatisation
- Kathryn Tucker, Unite Union Waikato/Bay of Plenty, Socialist Aotearoa
- Tom Buckley, Union Organiser, Socialist Aotearoa
- Luke Coxon, Union Organiser
- Oisin O Connell, Worker, Socialist Aotearoa
- Danielle Cullen, Worker, FINSEC member
- Richie Steward, Personal Capacity
- Nico Woodward, Nurse, Socialist Aotearoa
- Gary Cranston, Worker
- Heather Lyall, Mother [2]