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  • “I am writing this as a flare in the dark, to signal to other women. We are isolated, but not alone in our experience. Many women have experienced abuse from male partners, ‘comrades’, ‘friends’ in the radical left.”

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  • CONTENT WARNING: this article discusses topics that can often be difficult including sexual and relationship abuse, suicide, and addiction. EDITED 2021/07/21: Author’s identifying information removed at their request. Men who think they don’t have anything else to learn [are] very dangerous men. Jennai Bundock1 2015 We believe in the need for a transformation of men…that

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  • This piece by Derek Johnson was originally delivered on the Where’s My Jetpack podcast: jetpack.zoob.net This piece will be printed in Fightback’s upcoming magazine issue on Climate Change and Ecosocialism. To subscribe with PayPal or credit card, click here. A study by the United Nations has found climate change could drive 122 million more people

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  • A statement approved by the Fightback Editorial Board and sent to the National Secretary of Organise Aotearoa, 14th January 2020.

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  • By Ani White. This article will be published in Fightback’s upcoming magazine issue on Climate Change and Ecosocialism. To subscribe through PayPal or credit card, click here. New Years’ Day 2020, Ōtepoti/Dunedin (Aotearoa/New Zealand) Ironically, my first real-life encounter with the Australian bushfires – not mediated by Facebook, Twitter, or a press article – is

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  • Jane F. McAlevey, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (Oxford University Press). Reviewed by DAPHNE LAWLESS. From the new issue of FIGHTBACK magazine, “Trade Unions for the 21st Century”. To order a print copy for $NZ10 + postage, or to subscribe in electronic or print format, see here. Jane F. McAlevey,

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  • by BRONWEN BEECHEY. From the new issue of FIGHTBACK magazine, “Trade Unions for the 21st Century”. To order a print copy for $NZ10 + postage, or to subscribe in electronic or print format, see here. Can you briefly introduce yourself and why you feel passionate about hospitality workers’ rights? My name is Chloe Ann-King and

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  • by DAPHNE LAWLESS. From the new issue of FIGHTBACK magazine, “Trade Unions for the 21st Century”. To order a print copy for $NZ10 + postage, or to subscribe in electronic or print format, see here. Under capitalism, we’re all supposed to dream of being “the boss” – as opposed to an exploited worker obeying the

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  • Guest post by an anonymous bus driver. For Wellington bus drivers it is “TIME” to take action, like Auckland drivers have just done. For the record, earlier this year, our concerns were forwarded onto the head of the Trade Unions, Tramways Union Secretary and the Transport Ministers office, with the reassurance from these parties, that

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  • The new issue of FIGHTBACK magazine will soon be sent out to our electronic and print subscribers. Please enjoy the Editorial from this issue. To order a print copy for $NZ10 + postage, or to subscribe in electronic or print format, see here. “The emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working

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