The US-NZ occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan

The rollback of civil liberties and workers' rights at the hands of 'anti-terrorism' legislation

The theft of the seabed and foreshore from Maori, and the danger of bourgeois Maori in the 'Browntable' taking a stranglehold on protests against this theft

The declining real average wage in NZ over the past two decades

The decay in social services over the same period, especially in the health and education sectors

Moves toward a free trade deal with the US that would see the rollback of state funding for drugs and labour rights legislation

The anti-union provisions of the Employment Relations Act and the continued existence of an alliance between the unions leaders and the Labour government, which keeps a lid on effective action against all the above issues in NZ

These are probably the half-dozen burning issues for us in the Communist Workers Group. Be interested to hear what the Marama-Iti meeting had to say about them, and what plans were made for tackling them.