1978: Turn to Industry
September 8, 2024
By AHNZ
On 21 May, 2024, the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, Shane Jones, was addressing a private meeting of seafood industry representatives on planned law changes. Jones has made many such exciting addresses in his various capacities. In Blackball he wore a miners helmet, in Westport he wore a captain’s hat. I wouldn’t be surprised if his marine polemics had him employing one of those big yellow souwester fishing hats as a prop. One of the most crowd-pleasing things Jones belted out to his aggrieved audience was to refer to High Court Justice Cheryl Gwyn as a “Communist Judge”.
One of the key bits of evidence that Cheryl, or anyone of her generation, is indeed a Commie is their answer to the 1978 call from Communist Command in New York to what they called the Turn to Industry.
Minister Jones’ political rhetoric at the private meeting was taken down by one of ‘his’ own bureaucrats in their notes. These were then passed on by another bureaucrat in a bundle of evidence before the Waitangi Tribunal which led to them being reported upon. The heat now came on. Not, however, upon a High Court Communist but the man who dared to point it out to people who probably knew anyway.
The media story became about Shane Jones daring to say anything critical of a New Zealand judge. The Mainstream Media attacked, the Bar Association pounced, Tova O’Brien stirred up up again, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins stormed, and Attorney General Judith Collins was called upon to discipline Jones. The story was all about how Jones had been letting New Zealanders know something they aren’t allowed to know rather than the knowledge itself. Or, to put it another way, how Jones’ message threatened the “comity” [overt conspicuous respect] between the Executive and Judiciary as set out formally in the Cabinet Manual: “The Cabinet Manual – the rulebook for ministers – states that ministers should not express any views that are likely to be publicised if they could be regarded as reflecting adversely on the impartiality, personal views, or ability of any judge.” – Stuff (August 2024)
This Comity is evidently not to be based on truth or reality, no genuine respect. Instead it’s a pact between arms of The State to not mess with one another’s power base. The old ‘I’ll scratch your back, you scratch mine.’ Jones is in the firing line because he has failed to pass in silence over the actions of one of New Zealand’s protected elites. Who she is. What she has been doing. Heather du Plessis-Allan can be relied on as usual to put this sort of Noble Lie into words unabashedly: “So there is no doubt it was a minister criticising a judge. That’s not on. Ministers must not criticise the judiciary because virtually our entire system relies on us having confidence in the courts. Hence, his [392]telling-off from Attorney-General Judith Collins.” Ref. Shane Jones and the ‘communist’ judge: He’s naughty but not guilty in court of public opinion, du Plessis-Allen, NZ Herald (8 September, 2024)
This “confidence” du Plessis-Allen writes about is not a virtue, it’s fake. A lie, or lie of omission, that she rightly says our entire system of government relies upon. The hypocrisy that characterises the way the New Zealand State treats its people has long since spread to the very heart of government too.
[Note: It looks like David Seymour is the only one to have pointed out that everyone is now accepts (or pretends to for now) that ‘Communism’ is a criticism] Ref. ibid
Two things strike me about all this. Firstly, if the Executive is required to fabricate a good reputation for the Judiciary and the Judiciary must do the same in return and if the Fourth Estate (aka Legacy Media/Mainstream Media) police it…..who is actually looking out for rotten actors in our polity?
“You Don’t Need a Conspiracy When Interests Converge” – George Carlin
“Speaking to reporters on her way to Parliament on Thursday, Attorney General Judith Collins said she had made it clear to ministers that they should not be attacking the judiciary.” – Stuff (August 2024)
“In the House on Tuesday, Jones said it was a “a matter of fact” and an “adjective”. It has previously been reported that when Gwyn was a young law graduate she belonged to a Socialist Action League group.”” – NZ Herald (August 2024)
“The first is that Gwyn was a member of Socialist Action for at least four years, after she graduated (and possibly for a decade before that). Her politics then were probably Trotskyite or communist. That does not mean of course she has the same views today.” – Kiwiblog (2024)
Secondly, if the Official Story we’re told to focus on is that Jones is bad and in trouble from Wrong Speak then there’s certainly a hidden story that’s not being talked about. What are the politicians, lawyers, broadcasters, and their legion of minions absolutely not talking about? Well- High Court Justice Cheryl Gwyn’s Communism of course!
“Turn to Industry”
New Zealand’s Socialist Action League (est. 1969) was a Trotsyist/Castroite faction of Communism and it took orders from higher up. The Socialist Workers Party in New York realised that it was going to be hard continuing as a reactivist movement now that the Vietnam War they were reacting to was done. Repairing to their holy texts, they dictated an adventure for all loyal members to infiltrate the workplace. Marx’s revolution not happening was surely the result of clever people like them depriving workers of their leadership, no? Kiwi Commies agreed they needed more ‘doers’ and less people playing Che Guevara dress-ups while bickering with each other in comfy coffee shops and student lounges.
“In 1978, the SWP leadership decided that the key task was for party members to make a turn to industry. This turn entailed party members getting jobs in blue-collar industries in preparation for, the SWP leadership projected, increasing mass struggles.” – Wiki
“They were members of the Socialist Action League (SAL), a group formed in the late 1960s out of the student anti-Vietnam War movement. In the late 1970s, SAL decided to refocus its organising efforts, shifting focus from the university campus to the industrial workplace. ‘We must make the industrial workers our milieu’, the SAL National Convention agreed in 1976. ‘We must make their factories, their unions and their communities our base of operations.’” – The ‘turn to industry’: what happened when left activists joined the working class?,
“True to slavelike form, the SWP’s New Zealand affiliate, the Socialist Action League followed orders from New York. Virtually every member of the SAL (the majority of whom were university educated), went to work in railway workshops, biscuit factories, fish processing plants and meat works. The SAL set up branches in some provincial towns, including Invercargill and Hastings. The “turn to industry” policy was the reason a Phd in Sociology like Keith Locke spent several years working in the Woburn Railway Workshops and at Gear Meatworks.” – Cheryl Gwyn-The Lost Years, New Zeal (2006,) Wayback Machine
“She spent some time as a knife hand at the Hawkes Bay Farmers’ Meat Company before taking up a role in 1985 as an Investigating Officer in the office of the Race Relations Conciliator.” – Law Society (2019)
While it lasted this Turn to Industry adventure put a forensic fingerprint on the work history of every Communist. High Court Justice Cheryl Gwyn, for example, as a highly qualified law graduate (1979) headed off for 6 years to be part of the work chain at the Whakatu Meat works in Hawkes Bay. Ref. Christchurch Press, New Zeal
According to the same source, Gwyn was also a key player in Communist politics during the early 80s before finally getting her ‘real’ job.
“The Communist Judge”
Not too many factory workers go from slinging meat to lawyer then partner at Chapman Tripp. Next, Russell McVeagh. Then Deputy Secretary of Justice and Deputy Solicitor-General during the Labour 5.0 Ministry. Gwyn did. She was now in charge of Employment, Human Rights, and Treaty Issues among other things for Helen Clark’s Ministry’s Crown Law. Ref. New Zeal
Gwyn notably popped up again in 2014 at the end of National 4.0’s term as Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security and served until 2019. Judging from John Key’s press release she had been put there for the mutual interests of himself and the Opposition’s Phil Goff: “This inquiry process began after a series of political claims that I had personally been involved in directing the NZSIS to release information..These claims are proven to be entirely incorrect by the Inspector-General’s inquiry…I’m aware that current NZSIS Director Rebecca Kitteridge has also apologised to Phil Goff, which is appropriate.” – John Key, Beehive (2014)
So it appears the NZSIS was getting a bit big for its boots and The House put the spooks back down a peg or to using Gwyn. According to this cartoon comment (left) there wasn’t much else of interest for the politicians. However Gwyn had an enjoyable time, I’m sure, beating back the police state that had hounded Lefties like Nicky Hager (2014.) A convenient confluence of interests.
“When I was first appointed to the role, my sister said to me, “So, are you like M?” And my response was, “No, I’m the one who tells M to pull her head in.” Gwyn told TVNZ. Yep, she was having a blast making cops’ ears burn. Ref. One News (2016,) Auckland University Library
Job done, Jacinda Ardern’s Labour 6.0 sent Cheryl off to even bigger things with a place in the Judiciary: “Cheryl Gwyn will resign as Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security after being appointed as a High Court Judge, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed” – 1News (2019)
Honourable Justice Gwyn’s behavior must have made a lot of Communists happy when she dropped a bombshell of New Zealand’s response to the mass import of Australian criminals, the 501s. “Honourable Justice Cheryl Gwyn issued a 45-page judgment on Monday in the case of a deported drug dealer identified only as “G”, finding that special conditions put upon him were a violation of the Bill of Rights Act because they amounted to double jeopardy.” Ref. Crown to appeal against bombshell High Court decision opposing 501 monitoring, NZ Herald (2022)
Gwyn’s next bombshell was to thwart the Executives plans that the Marine and Coastal Areas Act would secure fisheries for industry. This was in March 2024 leading up to Jone’s May 2024 utterance, “Communist Judge.” Instead, she opted to re-interpret the law with weight toward the Treaty of Waitangi and give the fishing rights to a Maori tribal collective: “Justice Gwyn rejected both arguments, granting three of the customary marine rights for up to 3km out to sea and two of them to reach out 10km.” Ref. High Court grants more coastal rights to Māori amid political sensitivities, Newsroom (2024)
In his frustration Jones can perhaps be forgiven for feeling that Gwyn’s judgements are tapping into her Communist sentiments. A good Commie frustrates police, gets apologies for their mates, sides with criminals, privileges minorities, and jams up capitalists.
Various Ministries have used Cheryl’s gifts and rewarded her with more power every step of the way. What is she is using her power to promote Communist revolution? Nobody can talk about it or stop it. Jones gets burned just for calling a spade a spade. It highlights a great weakness in the New Zealand state that this lady can do as she likes and nobody can do anything about it. What’s next? Retirement as a judge doesn’t come until 70 or 72 so Gwyn is probably immovable until 2030.
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Image ref. Mark Winter, Alexander Turnbull Library (2014)
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