Alliance Party Announces Full Set Of Democratic Socialist Policies For Election ‘26

Over the next two weeks, the Alliance Party will be announcing detailed alternative policies to the establishment consensus in New Zealand politics.

Alliance Leader Victor Billot says that the forthcoming policies will confirm the Alliance as the only political party in the election presenting an unapologetic, fully costed, democratic socialist programme.

He says the Alliance stands for a country that works for working people.

“For forty years, working people in Aotearoa have watched successive governments manage the same broken economic model,” says Victor Billot.

Wages and living standards have stagnated or declined for the working-class majority who keep our society functioning, he says.

“The political establishment offers minor tweaks while essential services crumble, housing remains unaffordable, and our health system plunges further into crisis.”

Mr Billot says the Alliance policies are ensuring working people can achieve a secure life for themselves and their families.

The Alliance platform sees housing, decent work, and transport as public goods rather than market commodities.

Key Alliance principles include:

• Economic Justice: Shifting the tax burden off work and onto wealth in a cost-of-living crisis.
• Public Ownership: Expanding state and cooperative ownership of essential services and infrastructure to benefit everyday New Zealanders.
• Extending Democracy: Extending democratic decision-making directly into workplaces and local communities.
• Quality Public Services: Reversing the shameful underfunding of key services like health care.