Zohran’s policies of free public transport, free childcare, rent freezes, unionism, government backed supermarkets appeal because late stage capitalism is crushing people.
Zohran has offered actual solutions by subsidising those costs of living in a way that makes living possible.
Class based Economic Justice, not middle class intersectional identity politics will win the Left elections.
This is socialism that recognises the role of the State is to subsidise the basic cost of living, not throw people to the wolves of rampant free market capitalism!
Zohran understands that people yearn for material upgrades, not endless identity politics!
Not one poor family is sitting around the kitchen table cancelling each other for misusing pronouns, they are trying to work out how to pay the bills, and when the working poor turn to us on the Left for solutions and see only alienating identity politics dogma being served up as a solution, they turn away in anger at us.
I’ve only been pointing this other since 2016.
Meanwhile the planet burns.
If we’ve all finished alienating possible voters with pure temple politics, how’s about some good old fashioned Broadchurch class solidarity instead?
- Free public transport
- An Iwi back 3rd Supermarket chain.
- First $20 000 tax free
- GST off essentials
- Free Dental
- Free Health
- Free Education
Left Universalism is our goal, subsidising the biggest costs for the people is the solution.
The entire system is rigged in favour of the wealthy, why not rig it so that it subsidises the living costs of the poor?
A targeted Capital Gains Tax in return for 3 free GP visits is a great start.
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Although he is not the only Jewish politician to do so, Bernie Sanders is the most prominent Jewish American politician to endorse Zohan Mamdani.
Bernie Sanders explains the current US Government shutdown.
By illegally withholding funding for food insecure American families, Donald Trump is trying to blackmail the Democrats to vote for a budget that cuts funding for subsidies for healthcare insurance for millions of Americans.
Already, in anticipation of a Democrat surrender to Trump, insurance compaies are sending out notices of insurance premium increases
Democrats Are Last Line Of Defense’: Bernie Sanders Roaring Speech In US Senate On Shutdown
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxbAPHeiivI
@2:53 Minutes:
….We have a president who is illegally, illegally, withholding $5.5 billion dollars in emergency SNAP funds, nutrition funds, from 42 million Americans, including 16 million children.
@6:16 minutes:
Right now, millions of Americans are receiving notices from insurance companies.
And their insurance premiums are rising precipitously, double, and in some cases triply.
Well the man won by espousing a number of – for America – radical if sensible social Democrat policies, and of course gasp a bit of identity politics.
Doctors have questioned how Labour’s 3 free visits will be obtained. How would they cope with a totally free policy .The same could be said for Dentists.Both nice to have but only a dream as is the case with most of Greens policy bag
If there is a good return why has our brilliant Maori business people not gone into the grocery trade .
Trevor, Drs also say National are underfunding health and staff are underpaid. No you listen to them then?
Your argument is make it so less people can afford anything and the problem goes away. Kind of like sabotaging any increase in state provided accommodation and figuring there won’t be any homeless.
Landlord rebates are “nice to haves”. Imagine the money spent on this that could be used for 3 free Dr’s visits for “ALL” new Zealanders rather than rebates for the already wealthy. National’s policies will bankrupt the country( treasury confirms this) yet Greens policies will keep people healthier. You really are a moron Trevor.
Your last comment makes you racist.
No, ‘a targeted CGT for 3 gp visits ….’ is a poor start and you know it.
Who cares what the liberal party does, and pushes. As long as we drag the debate towards sensible economics for working people. And the CGT is a only a small pull towards it sure – but it’s not Nash type bullshit of be more right wing to stop the far right.
What the NZ Left must learn from Mamdani win
By Martyn Bradbury -November 6
Solidarity, Unity, Courage,
(Labour, Greens, TPM take note).
Bernie Sanders is the most prominent Jewish American to endorse Zohan Mamdani, but he is not the only one.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/mamdani-earns-endorsement-influential-orthodox-jewish-community-faction
What the left must learn ? How to identify and fight their enemy not embrace it and reverse the systematic capture of democratic politics by corporate interests.
Timid incremental do nothings won’t cut it any longer. The public have had a guts full.
Here in New Zealand, the Labour Party and its ally the Greens should have been the vehicle for bold change. But instead they’ve both largely stayed the course. When Labour took office in 2017, there were high hopes for a transformational government. Yet Jacinda Ardern and her successors ultimately shied away from any fundamental challenge to the economic status quo. They tinkered around the edges of problems, unwilling to upset the powerful or depart from orthodoxy.
Even when Labour admitted certain markets were broken, for instance acknowledging the supermarket duopoly that was overcharging Kiwis for food, it refused to take decisive action. A Commerce Commission inquiry into supermarkets resulted in gentle recommendations and a voluntary code of conduct, but no real crackdown on the grocery giants’ excess profits.
The Government balked at imposing windfall taxes on the booming banks or power companies. Its much-vaunted KiwiBuild housing scheme collapsed far short of targets, and it never embarked on a serious state house building program. Time and again, opportunities for bold intervention were passed up. It often seemed Labour was more afraid of annoying corporate interests than of disappointing its own voters.
In the end, the Labour-led Government managed a broken economic system rather than transforming it. And during a mounting cost-of-living crisis, “managing” wasn’t enough. By 2023, many traditional Labour supporters felt little had changed for them. And they were right. The party had kept the seat warm, but it hadn’t delivered the economic justice it once promised.
https://nzagainstthecurrent.blogspot.com/2025/11/time-for-new-zealand-left-to-get-with.html