Grid of posts 2×3

Fahrenheit 11/9 review: “There are many Americas”

By Ani White. Why is there a water crisis in Michigan? “We don’t have the power. We don’t run the factories.” I was worried that Michigan local Michael Moore might affirm the dominant ‘white working class’ narrative with this film. The above line, spoken by a black working class Michigan woman, abolishes that bullshit in Read more

December 1, 2018
Community, democracy and solidarity in doubling New Zealand’s refugee quota

This article will be published in Fightback’s December 2018 Migrant Refugee Issue. To subscribe to the e-publication or physical magazine, click here. Launched in 2013, the campaign to double New Zealand’s refugee quota – after three decades of stagnation – went from a radical ask to a mainstream success. In this article, the campaign’s founder Read more

November 29, 2018
“Workers in the most vulnerable part of the economy, they’re brave”: Organisation of migrant farm workers in Australia and Aotearoa

By Ani White. It’s an open secret that the conditions faced by migrant farm workers in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand are dire. In Aotearoa, a study conducted by Sue Bradford for FIRST Union and the Union Network of Migrant Workers (UNEMIG), released on UNEMIG’s fifth anniversary in August 2017, found evidence of dire exploitation of Read more

November 21, 2018
Singapore: The unseen migrant workers behind those skyscrapers

Sangeetha Thanapal on exploitation of migrant workers in Singapore Read more

November 13, 2018
Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe (Book Review)

Giovanni Tiso reviews a collection of migrants’ first-person accounts. Read more

November 9, 2018
New Zealand First and the global far-right

Is Winston Peters an alt right figurehead? Read more

November 1, 2018