Chris Trotter

Who is Chris Trotter?

Chris Trotter is a left-leaning political commentator in New Zealand. He is the editor of the occasional Political Review magazine, and is a regular speaker, orator and singer at left-wing, union and socialist events.

Trotter has worked for unions and was on the New Zealand council of the Labour Party. He writes the "From the Left" column in the Dominion Post, and has also contributed to the Independent Financial Review. He publishes a political commentary blog on the policy.net.nz website, and makes semi-frequent television appearances as a political commentator.

He has attracted criticism from other broad left critics who regard his knowledge of feminist, indigenous and LGBT politics to be insignificant, particularly insofar as their own distributive justice dimensions are concerned

Trotter is the author of No Left Turn, a political history of New Zealand.