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Working class unity needed to defend rights and living standards This article is adapted from an article by Jared Phillips, Fightback member. Originally published in The Socialist, magazine of the Socialist Party of Australia. Several recent events have elevated the issue of racism in New Zealand. In one case a nationalist MP belonging to the Danish People’s Party
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Byron Clark “Not fit for purpose.” That was the verdict on New Zealand’s health and safety system that the Independent Taskforce on Workplace Health and Safety delivered to Labour Minister Simon Bridges at the end of April. The taskforce discovered a number of “significant weaknesses” in laws, rules and regulations which were behind the country’s
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The first McDonalds strike ever in Wellington happened today. At 8am 5 of the 7 workers on shift came off the job and joined the picket line that had been set up outside Bunny St McDonalds. It was a noisy, lively affair, with Fightback member and Wellington Unite Union organizer Heleyni Pratley leading the way
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Ian Anderson In April, Victoria University of Wellington Students Association (VUWSA) launched its “Fairer Fares” campaign, lobbying the council to reduce public transport fares for students. VUWSA has conducted well-attended student forums on the issue, and the campaign has received coverage on TV One’s Seven Sharp. Salient, Victoria’s student magazine, ran a debate on the
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Daphne Lawless will present on Ecosocialism at our upcoming conference, Fightback 2013. It seems to be common sense that socialism and green politics go together. “Green is red”, wrote English socialist Paul McGarr more than ten years ago. On the other side of the aisle, the Right often refer to the Green Party as “watermelons”
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What do you get when you cross the Big Rick ‘Space Jesus 2013’ tour and the Fightback 2013 conference? A Big Rick fundraiser gig for the Fightback 2013 conference! With Big Rick will be the boisterous Spinhorn Cassowary, the joyous Dick Whyte, the delirious Wasps and the pumpin DJ ISO to finish off the night
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Welcome to the May 2013 issue of Fightback, newspaper of Fightback (Aotearoa/NZ). Fightback is a socialist organisation with branches in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch. Over Queen’s Birthday Weekend, the 31st of May to the 2nd of June, Fightback will be holding its annual public conference in Wellington. Turn to the back page or visit
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This piece was originally posted by Socialist Aotearoa On Thursday 16 May the Council of Trade Unions (CTU) National Affiliates Council meets in Wellington. On their agenda will be the latest attacks on workers’ rights being pushed through by National and the CTU’s newly launched campaign Why Cut Our Pay. The cuts are targeted attacks
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Polly Peek As a socialist and mental health consumer, I was recently excited to discover ‘The C Word,’ a blog on the Changing Minds website. Changing Minds is a consumer organisation based in Auckland. Engaging in systemic advocacy and activism, the group acts as a network of mutual support for people who have used mental
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