-
By Daphne Lawless The election of former Labour Party leader Phil Goff as mayor of Auckland on October 9, by a margin of 75,000 votes over his nearest challenger, will at best have provoked “half a cheer” from people who want a sustainable, equal, democratic and liveable future for Auckland. The mayoral election was probably
-
Article by Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics, University of Birmingham. Reprinted from The Conversation. A young man, wearing a white helmet and a distinctive yellow-and-blue badge on his arm, digs for four hours in the rubble of a building destroyed by a Russian-regime airstrike in Idlib Province in northwest Syria. Finally, he sees what
-
This article by Debbie Brennan was originally published by the Freedom Socialist Party (Australia). Debbie represents Radical Women in CARF and is a community member of the National Union of Workers. Contact Freedom Socialist Party of Aotearoa at freedom.socialist.aotearoa@gmail.com or Freedom Socialist Party of Australia at freedom.socialist.party@ozemail.com.au. “I’m back — but not alone.” Pauline Hanson, leader of the extreme-right
-
By Ian Anderson, student (expanded from a short piece published in Salient Magazine, itself originally adapted from an MA thesis on ‘publics’ and ‘nonpublics’ in Aotearoa/New Zealand). The housing crisis is a key site of struggle over inequality in Aotearoa/New Zealand. As many increasingly note, an increasing proportion of people do not own the homes they
-
Fightback stands for liberation for women and gender minorities, including appropriate support for survivors of sexual assault. This piece on one survivor’s experience of sexual violence, and recovery, was submitted to us by Hannah Beatie. When FRIEND asked me why I was giving away all of my stuff, I replied that I needed a change. Actually,
-
Book title: Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and Civil War Authors: Robin Yassin-Kassab, Leila Al-Shami Publisher: Pluto Press Released: 2016 Review by: Ani White To myself and others in ‘the West’, Syria’s internal crisis has often appeared a confusing mess with no sides worth taking. Competing bombs (Assad bombs, US bombs, Russian bombs) and competing sects (Alawi, Sunni,
-
E ngā mana, e ngā reo e ngā karangarangatanga maha, tēnā koutou. Welcome to the Youth Issue of Fightback Magazine, Redefining Activism. There is a well-known whakatauki (Māori proverb) that says: ‘Ko te mahi a te tamariki, he wāwāhi tahā.’ This is often understood as meaning that the activities of children break the
-
Charlie Prout is a 22 year old student completing a BA in Sociology and Political Science. He has an interest in communicating big complicated issues to the public in simple ways. Youth cannot get involved in economic activism without a dialogue of an alternative system. I sat down with Dr Dylan Taylor, Lecturer in
-
Brodie Fraser Political participation is an important facet of democracy. In recent years there has been a rise in the study of alternative forms of political participation. There are a number of reasons for this, however the main one is global trends of declining political participation. This is said to be a “crisis of Western
-
Tyler West I entered the loose assortment of radicals who make up the New Zealand far left (or at least, left-of-parliament) in the aftermath of Occupy, which probably makes me among the newest batch of young activists. My first exposure to politics was being mistaken for an Occupier and (nearly) bottled while in
Socialist media project based in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia
Become a Patron
Syndication
Subscribe to RSS feed
FightBack 
You must be logged in to post a comment.