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Workers Party application to register
Workers Party application to register with Electoral Commission
The Workers Party has today made an application to the Electoral Commission to register as a political party able to contest the list vote in the upcoming national elections.
In the 2002 and 2005 elections (standing as the Anti-Capitalist Alliance) it has contested a number of electorate seats in the main centers, and will be doing so again this year.
In the coming election the Workers Party will be campaigning on issues that are of importance to working people, such as abolishing GST (not just on food), jobs for all with a shorter working week and no loss of pay, no restrictions on the right to strike, and scrapping undemocratic laws such as the Electoral Finance Act and the so-called "Terrorism Suppression" Act.
The Workers Party also stands for workers power and a working people's republic. All Workers Party candidates pledge if elected to parliament to live on the average worker's wage and to fight for the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement with an economic system based not on private profit and private ownership, but on human need.
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A list of 2008 Workers Party electorate candidates announced to-date is also available on the party blog at http://thespark.org.nz
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