Digital ID – The New Chains of Capitalist Surveillance

From Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement

Across the globe, governments and corporations are rolling out digital identification systems, facial recognition passports, biometric driver’s licences, app-based vaccine passes, QR-coded welfare access, and unified digital wallets. The language that accompanies these projects is familiar – efficiency, convenience, modernisation, inclusion. We are told that digital ID will make life easier, reduce fraud, and open new opportunities.

The DEI Illusion: A Capitalist Smokescreen

From Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement

Winston Peters recently made a speech attacking Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programmes in Aotearoa. The speech, filled with reactionary bluster, predictably framed DEI as a tool of woke overreach. But what neither Peters nor his liberal opponents will admit is that DEI is not a radical challenge to oppression—it is a corporate mechanism designed to sustain capitalism.

Beehive Design Collective: Reportback from 2023 Asia Pacific tour

From Beehive Design Collective
August 14, 2023

From February until May 2023, our family of Bees went to the Asia Pacific region to tour with the Beehive’s True Cost of Coal and Mesoamérica Resiste graphics, inspiring discussions about the intersections of colonialism, resource extraction, corporate globalization, workers movements and climate change. All in all, we did over 100 presentations at 70 different events, including an 8,000-person electronic music festival, a buddhist temple, bookstores, occupations, street parties, community centres, conferences, cafes, protests and 12 different schools, from middle schools to universities in Aotearoa, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea and Japan.

New Zealand: 2023 Tāmaki Anarchist Bookfair, March 17-18

We are super excited to officially announce the FIRST EVER anarchist bookfair in Tāmaki (Auckland)!

After having to postpone due to covid in 2020 we are back!

https://www.facebook.com/events/668986064702096

Featuring talks, workshops, stalls, music, games, books and more, this is a 100% FREE festival for everyone hungry for alternative ideas and building people power for change in a burning world. All are very welcome, whether you consider yourself an anarchist or not.

Anarchists and the Convoy 2022 Protests

From Aotearoa Workers’ Solidarity Movement (AWSM)

By Pink Panther

They call it Freedom Convoy 2022.

They claim it’s all about freedom.

A mishmash of groups who are fighting for contradictory “freedoms” have been camped in and around the New Zealand Parliament in Wellington since February 6th.

Zine: A Death in the Making

Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement (AWSM) an anarcho-communist group in so-called New Zealand offer a zine made by one of our members for distribution. In what we think is an outstanding piece of writing and art she has written of her experiences and how a belief in anarchism helps her cope.

Why We Don't Vote

via Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement

The right to vote is seen as a necessary prerequisite for freedom across the world. People have fought and died for the right to vote in elections. Women across the world fought bitter battles for the right to vote. So why are the Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement (AWSM) questioning this as a right worth having?

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