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Joel Cosgrove Most mainstream reporting on events in Mali included various tropes, such as that Europe is under threat from Islamic fundamentalism, that the invasion of French troops was about freeing the local people, and the involvement of French troops was defended as being an undesirable but necessary outcome resulting from a bad situation. The
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Joel Cosgrove With the dismissal of the Maori Council’s water rights claim to the Supreme Court and the submission of the Anti-Asset Sales petition for a referendum, one phase of the broad campaign against the sale of assets has ended and the next has begun. Within the initial campaign against asset sales there were three
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Its time for the Government to listen to the majority of Aotearoa/NZ. Want to organise a protest in a smaller town? Contact Joe at 029 4455702. Auckland- Britomart 2pm. Wellington- Pigeon Park, 2pm Tauranga- Red Square, 10am Napier- War Memorial Square, 2pm Christchurch- corner Deans Ave & Riccarton Road to Hanmer Hot Springs Hotel, 2pm
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Fightback is a Marxist organisation that houses a range of anti-Stalinist historical perspectives. In this article Mike Kyriazopolous argues for a third camp position on 20th Century history, which can be summed up as “neither Washington nor Moscow but international socialism.” Readers with a knowledge of the history of Trotskyism will know that the USSR’s invasion of Finland on
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by Ian Anderson Working people are encouraged to accept the idea they should give a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay. The problem with this is that within the capitalist system – even in the most developed economies – workers do not receive fair wages. This is because the economic basis of capitalism
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In 2012, Fightback (then the Workers Party) held a conference in Wellington with over 120 attending. Over the weekend comrades discussed topics including tino rangatiratanga and socialism, safer spaces in political organising, industrial struggles, and the student movement. This year’s conference will be held on Queens Birthday Weekend, 31st of May to 2nd June, at
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Grant Brookes One in five New Zealand children were living in poverty in 2011, says the Ministry of Social Development. Other organisations put the figure at one in four, or 270,000 kids. The Ministry of Health reports that over 20 percent of households with school-age children do not have enough food. Over 1.8 million food items
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Byron Clark After touring a number of film festivals and picking up the Art Cinema award at Cannes, Chilean director Pablo Larraín’s film No has arrived in New Zealand for a limited theatrical release. This is Larrain’s second film looking at Chile’s tumultuous political history; 2010’s Post Mortem was set during the 1973 military coup
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Counter-protest against Right Wing Resistance “White Pride” rally
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by Daphne Lawless As Alec Hardison says on the hit TV show Leverage: “it’s the age of the geek, baby”. Information technology workers are increasingly important and increasingly recognizing their own importance. Here’s why. What makes Marxism different from other schools of thought which seek to understand and to change the world is that it
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