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Original article by Dounia Hadni here: http://www.liberation.fr/france/2016/04/17/nuit-debout-alain-finkielkraut-chasse-de-la-place-de-la-republique_1446766. Translated by Daphne Lawless for Fightback. For background information on the “Nuit Debout” movement, a movement currently occupying public squares throughout France and elsewhere in Europe, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuit_debout. For background information on Alain Finkielkraut, an anti-multiculturalist and Zionist writer, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Finkielkraut. Nuit Debout: Alain Finkielkraut chased away
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The upcoming issue of Fightback magazine will be giving a platform for young voices to talk about what activism means for us. The issue will explore narratives of survival and resistance under capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and homophobia/transphobia/biphobia/interphobia. It asks the questions: what do we see as “real” or “legitimate” activism and why? How do we
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Fightback previously reported on redundancies at council-funded Wellington company CallActive, managed by John Morrison. This week, Morrison’s new company Plus64 Connect is reportedly undergoing a new series of redundancies. This mass shedding of staff particularly relates to TrustPower contracts. Plus64Connect hasn’t folded, however with limited contracts this is still a risk. TrustPower is a NZ-owned
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This, the first issue of Fightback magazine for 2016, is based around the concept of neoliberalism. This is a term bandied about by political activists a lot in recent years — often, it seems, without a clear idea of what it means. Some even deny that it is a real thing, that it is simply “capitalism as usual”. We agree
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By Joe McClure (Fightback Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington) David Harvey, according to his website, is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the City University of New York. While this is not entirely accurate – his role does not include geography – he is nonetheless considered one of the foremost academic authorities on Marxism and how it
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By Ian Anderson, Fightback Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington. I’d like to thank Ben Peterson for responding to Daphne Lawless’ recent article Against Conservative Leftism, published by Fightback, with his own piece. While we may disagree on some points, I am glad he has taken us up on this debate. First I’d like to clear up a possible misconception
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Fightback supports the universal right to housing, including expansion of high-density, high-quality public housing, and strict price controls on privately owned houses. This article by Alex Johnston, reprinted from The Spinoff, makes a case for high-density urban housing in Auckland. Yesterday the democratic deficit present in Auckland’s local body politics was well and truly evident. In a
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By Neil Davidson. Reprinted from Salvage, and abridged by Daphne Lawless for Fightback’s upcoming magazine issue on neoliberalism. The neoliberal era can be retrospectively identified as beginning with the economic crisis of 1973, or, more precisely, with the strategic response of state managers and employers to that crisis. Previous eras in the history of capitalism
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by Ben Jacobs (Fightback member and public servant). Like many systems of thought, the theory and practice of neoliberalism don’t line up particularly well. In New Zealand, for example, the state plays a key role in propping up a system that preaches minimal state intervention. Public servants realised long ago that actually existing neoliberalism is
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by Fiona O’Callaghan Just over a year ago, I was living in a garage. It was renovated to the extent that it had been carpeted and the interior walls gyprocked (but not painted) and the entrance filled with a ranchslider. I had to go up to the main house if I wanted to use the
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