Dave Cuthbert

Template:TOCnestleft Dave Cuthbert is a New Zealand activist.

WCL

Dave Cuthbert was close to the Workers Communist League

The COST executive committee was elected after the initial May 1st 1981 mobilisation. It consisted of;

Lindsay Wright (chairman) Previously a research officer for NZUSA, on the central committee of the National Anti Apartheid Council and an official of the Committee on Vietnam. A former contributor to The Paper.
Geoff Walker Later a chairman of Wellington HART.
Campbell Duignan A HART activist, later VUWSA National Affairs officer and a confirmed member of the Victoria University Progressive Students Alliance, the student wing of the WCL. Later closely linked to the WCL in Dunedin.
Eileen Cassidy Named by the SIS as a probable WCL member. Her daughter Lindy Cassidy, was an open member of the WCL's predecessor, the Wellington Marxist-Leninist Organisation.
Dennis Rockell A former organiser of the National Anti Apartheid Council.
Dave Cuthbert A founding chairman of the NAAC, former president of NZUSA and a HART national councillor. Named by the SIS as a probable WCL member.
Ian Baxter No information.
David Stott Confirmed as a WCL member in 1984, ex NAAC central committee.
Davd Wickham Denies WCL membership, but a former partner was a WCL member. Former AUSA International Affairs officer, HART activist and contributor to The Paper.

later co-opted was Alick Shaw Open WCL member.

Dave Cuthbert, Chairman of the National Anti-Aparthied Coordinating Committee (NAACC) of New Zealand, addressing the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, United Nations, New York, October 30, 1972.