General Election
Sir, — New Zealand’s political system is based on the paradox that a minority have voted for the ruling National Party while the majority favoured something different. They cannot conscientiously be pro-Govern-ment but fortunately there is an alternative. The Socialist Unity Party stands for a change in kind of our economic system. Far from being controlled from Moscow, the way to socialism the S.U.P. Programme states: “can be helped by a study of the experiences in countries where socialism has been won, but this can only be a general guide from a particular set of circumstances.” People have the democratic right to
organise at grass-roots level for “New Zealand as they want it” around common needs, consciously linking local and domestic topics with political and international realities. — Yours etc.,
MICHAEL N. RHODES December 21, 1978.
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Press, 28 December 1978, Page 10
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