Some pakeha consciously ally with the exploiters and promote actions against workers of other nationalities. But in the final analysis, the vast majority of working people of all nationalities have no stake in racism and national oppression. The long history of oppression of national minorities in Aotearoa has given rise to deep sentiments for equality and liberation, particularly among Maori. Their struggles against national oppression strike at the root of the monopoly capitalist system. Women's oppression is built into monopoly capitalism.
Women fill many of the lowest-paid and tedious jobs in the economy.
Women have reduced access to education. Capitalism profits from the low-paid work of women and the unpaid work of women in the home. Women are exploited by capitalism as a sexual image in commercial culture. The billion dollar pornography and sex industry have reduced women to mere commodities. Women are subject to appalling violence - within domestic relationships, through a daily bombardment of denigration in the media and in social situations, to rape and incest.