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  • For our fourth magazine issue of 2015, Fightback is publishing an international-themed issue. This includes a number of reprints from international sources, aswell as original content. As we go to print, images of dead Syrian refugees have prompted international outcry, with some concessions won already – the New Zealand government recently announced plans to let 100 more refugees in. Fightback supports international working-class solidarity,

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  • Crowdfunded special edition of Fightback magazine (subscribe here), dedicated to radical writing by women and gender minorities. All contributors were paid. Editorial Not All Men, Bella Wallace Judgementality and the “neutral, objective” voice of whiteness, MZ Chatting “Pasifika” and “Feminism”, Malia Grace We talk a lot about the struggle, Sian Torrington Policing the colonial project of

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  • Article originally published in Fightback magazine’s special issue dedicated to paid radical writing by women and minorities. By Falenaoti Mokalagi. Content Warning: sexual assault. Yesterday a son of Samoa was jailed 25 years after the fact I sat next to your daughter Samoa Birthed in Aotearoa I READ OUT ALOUD  the impact of this son

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  • Article originally published in Fightback magazine’s special issue dedicated to paid radical writing by women and gender minorities. Save Our Homes is a research and praxis collective based in Tamaki Makaurau. We believe that liveable housing is a human right and should be accessible to all. We run a website saveourhomes.co.nz as a resource and

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  • Article originally published in Fightback magazine’s special issue dedicated to paid radical writing by women and gender minorities. By Vita. Aotearoa’s sexual services industry is yet again in the international media spotlight, this time because our country’s sex work lobby-group, the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective, described New Zealand as “the best country in the world”

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  • By Ian Anderson, Fightback. It’s not news that New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has arbitrarily announced a ‘flag debate,’ consisting of two referenda in November-December 2015 and March 2016. Or rather, the ‘flag debate’ is news; reports circulate daily on the latest developments. However, in all the debate about which design is best, or

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  • Article originally published in Fightback magazine’s special issue dedicated to paid radical writing by women and gender minorities. Anne Russell is a public health student with an ongoing interest in the politics of intimate relationships. A welcome narrative has recently sprung up about how society needs to teach men (and others) not to rape or

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  • Fightback Christchurch would like to welcome all those interested to be involved with our recently formed, regular, radical study group. Fightback is acting as facilitator for the study and discussion of radical theory – both leading and presenting discussions, and inviting participants to recommend and lead study of ideas they have found useful or profound.

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  • Article originally published in Fightback magazine’s special issue dedicated to paid radical writing by women and gender minorities. By Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho. The influence of Marxist theory and particularly Marx’s theory of alienation and capitalist political economy on the Māori sovereignty movement during the 1970’s is important to examine and I would also like to consider

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  • Originally published in Fightback magazine’s special issue dedicated to paid writing by women and gender minorities. Maria is a freelance writer currently living in Chicago. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a minor in Communication. She blogs about environmentally friendly tips, technological advancements, and healthy

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