First Secretary Rolfe R. Everson Ideology Socialism, Marxism | Founded 1930 (1930) | |
Leader none/membership conference Headquarters PO Box 1929 Auckland 1140 New Zealand Newspaper Socialist Review (1934), Socialist Comment (24 issues 1944-48), Socialist Viewpoint (1971-1982) | ||
The World Socialist Party of New Zealand was a political party in New Zealand. It was revolutionary and anti-Leninist. It was founded in 1930 as the Socialist Party of New Zealand.
It was affiliated with the Socialist Party of Great Britain and the World Socialist Movement.
In the 1940s it co-operated on Socialist Comment. In 1971 it contested its first parliamentary election. In 1975 it put up seven candidates.
The party last ran a candidate in the 1996 election, gaining a total of 27 votes.
Radio
World Socialist Party of New Zealand ran Radio Imagine 88.3 FM out of Manurewa, Auckland, starting as early as 2001.
References
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