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  • Race & Reaction in New Zealand 1880-1950

    This article appears in Fightback’s June issue on Fascism and Anti-Fascism. Please contact fightback.australasia@gmail.com for subscription information. Race & Reaction in New Zealand 1880-1950: A Pre-History of the Far Right By TYLER WEST For the most part, New Zealand has missed the kinds of ultra-reactionary mass movements which typified fascist and otherwise hard-line nationalist politics Read more

  • What is fascism? An introduction

    This article by DAPHNE LAWLESS appears in Fightback’s upcoming issue on “Fascism and Anti-Fascism”. For subscription information, contact fightback.australasia@gmail.com. Part of the problem with any discussion of fascism today is the widespread ignorance about what that word actually means. This comes from decades after the defeat of the Fascist states in World War 2, since Read more

  • The Red-Brown “zombie plague” PART THREE

    This is the final part of a major article by DAPHNE LAWLESS to appear in Fightback’s June issue on Fascism and Anti-Fascism. Part one is here, part two is here. Please contact fightback.australasia@gmail.com for subscription information. Placard from a German Red-Brown party, Der III. Weg (“The Third Way”). The slogan reads: “For a German socialism!” Read more

  • The Red-Brown “zombie plague” PART TWO

    This is part two of three of a major article to appear in Fightback’s June issue on Fascism and Anti-Fascism. Part one is here. Please contact fightback.australasia@gmail.com for subscription information. How did we get here? For an infection to spread, you need both a germ (a virus, a bacterium, a spore or similar) and a Read more

  • The Red-Brown “zombie plague” PART ONE

    The Red-Brown “zombie plague”: how fascist ideas are becoming popular on the Left – PART ONE By DAPHNE LAWLESS This is part one of three of a major article to appear in Fightback’s June issue on Fascism and Anti-Fascism. Please contact fightback.australasia@gmail.com for subscription information. UPDATE 2018/08/13: A Spanish-language translation of this piece by Jaume Read more

  • FLASHBACK: Nazis humiliated in Wellington, November 2004

    The traditional-fascist National Front have recently attempted to hold meetings in Christchurch and Dunedin, New Zealand, protesting a fictional “white genocide”, which have been shut down by activist opposition. The following piece by Daphne Lawless originally appeared in the November 2004 issue of Socialist Worker Monthly Review (New Zealand) and describes a successful anti-fascist mobilization Read more