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By Byron Clark, Fightback Christchurch member. Public protests against the GCSB bill will take place around the country on July 27th. [Auckland event] [Hamilton event] [Wellington event] [Nelson event] [Waihopi Spybase event] [Christchurch event] [Dunedin event] The spectacle of Kim Dotcom going face to face with John Key to make a submission on the
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Transcript of an interview on Democracy Now AMY GOODMAN: In the aftermath of the Zimmerman verdict and the mass protests around the country, we turn right now to Dr. Cornel West, professor at Union Theological Seminary, author of numerous books, co-host of the radio show Smiley & West with Tavis Smiley. Together, they
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Ian Anderson, Fightback. Middle-brow sections of the capitalist press have criticised ‘millenials’ in recent months, and millenials in turn have responded through blogs and other media. Also termed Generation Y, the ‘millenial’ generation broadly covers people born between 1980 and 2000 – “teenagers and twenty-somethings.” In May, Time Magazine ran a cover story describing millenials
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Byron Clark, Fightback. The past few years have seen the US led “war on terror” morph from a bloody ground war in Iraq and Afghanistan to something resembling a Hollywood techno-thriller. Three years after soldier Bradley Manning was arrested for leaking an enormous trove of classified documents via Wikileaks, another whistle-blower has revealed that American
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Ciaran Doolin, Fightback. Obama came to power in 2009 after a campaign replete with pledges to return the US to being a nation that respected the civil liberties of its citizens and the human rights of its enemies. Those who assessed Obama’s rhetoric as simply vacuous politicking have since been vindicated. Obama has dramatically expanded
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6pm, Sunday July 21st WEA Rooms, 59 Gloucester St, Christchurch [Facebook event]
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A significant amount of unpaid work (housework, care for children, the sick and elderly) is performed mainly by women. Understanding unpaid work is necessary to both socialist and feminist organising. Presented by Marika Pratley, Fightback member. 6pm, Wednesday July 24th 19 Tory St [Facebook event]
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On February the 6th, 2012, vigilante George Zimmerman killed African American teenager Trayvon Martin. It took 44 days and mass protests to initiate prosecution against Zimmerman. On the 15th of July 2013, George Zimmerman was acquitted. In a piece reprinted from Socialist Worker, (US) Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor analyses the racism underlying the killing and the verdict. SHOCK, HORROR and
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Welcome to the July 2013 issue of Fightback, publication of Fightback (Aotearoa/NZ). Fightback is a socialist organisation with branches in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch. Labour, or work, is at the centre of a historical materialist (or Marxist) view of social relations. Ian Anderson, Fightback coordinating editor, considers the nature of unpaid labour such as
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