Matthew "Matt" McCarten is a New Zealand political organiser. He has been involved with several leftist or centre-left political parties, and is also active in the trade union movement. McCarten was originally a member of the Labour Party, but grew dissatisfied with the party's direction under Minister of Finance Roger Douglas. Douglas was a strong promoter of free market economics and deregulation, which McCarten and others saw as a betrayal of Labour's roots. Wikipedia
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