What a new Radical Left Party would need to do

There was a meeting held last week in Auckland to discuss whether or not NZ need a new radical Left Party.

I’ve been cancelled approximately 17 000 times since 2016 for thought crimes against woke dogma, so I certainly wasn’t invited and Sue Bradford was.

Sadly for the NZ Left, middle class Identity Politics is now the main cultural influence over Left wing politics and hilariously the reviewer from the Identitarian Spin Off wrote…

A brave and cynical journalist might consider that the core of these groups always seem dominated by middle-class white people who are highly educated and love reading dense books that are really old and long. That journalist might wonder whether some of these groups are more interested in carrying out complex thought experiments and holding virtuous political opinions than actually engaging with the real world. 

…yeah, seeing as we have haemorrhaged cis male votes and driven them into the arms of the far right, insights like, ‘we got too many white cis males here, let’s purge them first and start the revolution highlights how fucked as a movement.

Sue was depressingly pragmatic and brought a dose of reality to proceedings.

There’s little chance of it happening she concluded.

She pointed out the desire to rip our leaders to pieces for woke purity tests will always cripple anyone from actually leading.

We need a radical review of capitalism, what we have is a radical interventionist culture war where the woke create regular purity tests.

I’ve set ups two small parties (and joined them together to officially make a 3rd one), so I have some ideas.

The true demarcation of power in a capitalist democracy is the 1% richest + their 9% enablers vs the 90% rest of us.

Identity Politics promotes pure temple politics and burns Broadchurch populism.

Broadchurch populism that promotes fully funded public services funded by taxing the rich.

It is an Economic and Social debate that allows any of the 90% to buy in.

Unfortunately the low hanging fruit of middle class identity politics trumps class.

The modern Left are great at Free the Nipple protests for Vegan Trans Ally Mummy Bloggers, not so good at challenging the neoliberal economic structure.

So how can we get out of the quagmire of alienating Identity Politics and into the Class Left Universal solidarity and Sanders/Corbyn populism?

5%

Look, you could big balls it. This new Left Radical Party with a focus on properly funding public services could aim for 5% Party vote to cross the threshold, but that takes a LOT of money, amazing organisation and real dedication. It’s fucking hard. There is a suggest to lower the MMP threshold, maybe you could try this if the entry was 3%, but 5% is a mountain so few Parties have managed to climb and sustain.

Win an Electorate

You could coalesce around an electorate and attempt to gain access to Political representation and any MMP coat tailing – but that requires an incredible candidate who can seriously aim

Use Woke tactics against the Woke:

One of the things the woke are amazing at is burrowing into command and control of protest organisations and taking them over while piously purging anyone who isn’t their definition of inclusive.

We saw them do it with the Auckland Pride Parade, the Auckland Students Climate Change, movement and we are seeing it inside the Greens right now.

Imagine the following:

A collective of class activists inside Labour, Greens and Maori Party who join a ‘Radical Economic Justice Front’.

This ‘Radical Economic Justice Front’ put together a 10 point radical economic policy promise and collectively push within Labour, Greens and  Maori Party to agree to adopt that 10 point policy platform if they win the 2026 election.

Bypass there alienating woke activists altogether and collectively work inside the Parties themselves by stacking local branches and pushing them to adopt The Aotearoa New Zealand Peoples Economic Justice Pledge which the ‘Radical Economic Justice Front’ would promote the hell out of and sell to voters.

The Aotearoa New Zealand Peoples Economic Justice Pledge

• Free Public Transport
• Free Dental
• First $20 000 tax free, lower GST to 10% while implementing Sugar Tax, Financial Transactions tax, Billionaire Tax.
• State Houses for life
• Massive rent to own building spree
• Ministry of Green Works
• 100% renewable cheap electricity
• Food security
• Radical environmental adaptation
• More schools, more hospitals, more education, more public health

Labour, Greens and Maori Party must work together if we have any hope of beating this hard right, racist, climate denying, beneficiary bashing, disabled abusing Government.

If we don’t work together we are doomed to have these vandals remain and cement into place their damage.