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Is all politics dirty? Does voting change anything, and is it enough? If socialists view parliament as a part of capitalism, why do we engage in elections? Monday | September 15th | 6pm | 19 Tory St [Facebook event]
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By Nic Wood, reprinted from Ours. I’m queer. My ideas about what it means to be and belong as a queer person have changed a lot since I ‘came out’ in my teenage years. It’s interesting for me to reflect on this in the context of an election, because the notion of ‘belonging’ is intensified and highly visible
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This special, expanded election edition of Fightback magazine comes at what seems to be a turning point in the 2014 election. The shockwaves from Dirty Politics, Nicky Hager’s exposé of the possibly corrupt relations between National Party cabinet ministers and the tabloid attack blog “Whale Oil”, are still reverberating. Labour and the left opposition parties
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Mike Treen, General Secretary of UNITE Union. (Reprinted from The Daily Blog, originally published in 2013). Can a party that wants fundamental changes in society be a minor part of a coalition government? My conclusion is no, after having been a participant in the Alliance Party’s implosion after attempting to do so from 1999-2002 as
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Fightback supports Internet MANA as an alliance between radical indigenous and progressive tau iwi forces, challenging the neoliberal consensus. Party founder Kim Dotcom recently hinted that Julian Assange may be speaking at an upcoming Internet Party event on September 15th. Assange is sought for questioning for rape. Providing a platform for Assange, and other men with
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Joe McClure, Fightback Labour and National both have unpromising records when it comes to immigration policy. National, represented by Minister of Immigration Michael Woodhouse, has suffered a series of embarrassments this year. Groups of Filipino workers employed in Christchurch were found to be victims of exploitative company Tech5, which was keeping them in cramped conditions,
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Jared Phillips (reprinted from socialistvoice.org.nz) In May, the US government brought criminal charges against five Chinese military officials for hacking into the systems of US energy and steel companies. They stole trade secrets and conducted economic espionage. The Chinese government retaliated by urging domestic banks to remove high-end servers made by IBM and replace them
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By Ben Peterson (Fightback Ōtautahi/Christchurch) Nicky Hager’s Dirty Politics just blew up the election. The material comes largely from Cameron Slater’s leaked emails, but it covers much more than his personal activity. It outlines the activities of central National Party figures, up to and including Prime Minister John Key himself. But the real importance of
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by Daphne Lawless As we go to press, the election campaign has been turned upside down by a new book by investigative journalist Nicky Hager. Dirty Politics is based mainly on a leak of 2 gigabytes of emails and Facebook messages from “Whale Oil”, the vicious right-wing scandal-mongering blog edited by Cameron Slater. The book lays
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National today appears to be seeing a level of popularity unheard of in the MMP era. But behind the polls, the reality is much more mundane. Most political polls exclude undecided voters and those planning not to cast a ballot, yet these groups can occasionally make up as many as 15% of respondents. At the
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