Archive for October 2008
On selling revolutionary papers in Dunedin
Dunedin is a good place to do paper sales. This has always struck me as being quite interesting, considering the relatively low level of political activism and class struggle here compared to other centres. Whenever I hit the streets in my Karl Marx t-shirt (with the words “I’d rather have a revolution than a Labour government” written on it) and a stack of Sparks, I end up selling quite a few and getting a lot of positive responses.
I did a paper sale today with a comrade from Christchurch called Phil, who’s in town for a week or so. After a few initial probems (I always get messed up on Saturday thanks to the bus timetables being different to during the week… I have no excuses, I’m just bad with stuff like that!), we met up in the wee alleyway between George St and the New World shopping centre to sell our papers, hand out leaflets with the Workers Party election manifesto on them and generally preach the good news to people walking by.
All Things Bright and Beautiful – Workers Party radio ad
Now that my organisation, the Workers Party of New Zealand, has secured enough paper members to register as a political party, we get $10,000 to spend on whatever election stuff we want and we also get free airtime on the radio and TV channels. This is a video put together to go with our radio ad.
This is the first time in history that a revolutionary communist option has been on every ballot in the country, and it’ll be the first time New Zealand’s radios and TVs have had anti-capitalist material playing on them. So this is a pretty big deal.
The song was written and performed by Don Franks, our candidate for Wellington Central. Vote Workers Party – workers should be running the country!
The video can also be viewed at the Workers Party website – http://workersparty.org.nz/2008/10/09/all-things-bright-and-beautiful-2/
