Grid of posts 2×3

  • Build bridges, not walls: How to make Auckland a more equitable city

      Peter Nunns is a contributor to transportblog.co.nz. This article will be published in Fightback’s upcoming magazine on Urban Revolution and Right to the City. To subscribe to the magazine, click here. As an economist specialising in urban issues, I spend most of my time analysing and debating how transport and housing policy can make society Read more

  • Eco-villages, transition towns and gardens cities

    Tāne Feary is an eco-activist who lives on Waiheke Island, Tāmaki Makarau / Auckland. This article will be published in Fightback’s upcoming magazine issue on Urban Revolution and the Right to the City. To subscribe to Fightback’s magazine, click here. This article introduces the Transition Towns movement and looks at eco-villages, exploring some possibilities for the Read more

  • Migrants are welcome – Leftist xenophobia is not

    By Daphne Lawless When I was a young Alliance activist in Wellington in the 1990s, I knew Frank Macskasy well as a staunch colleague in the fight against the neoliberal assault on workers. It’s very sad to see him now promoting the xenophobic agenda of Martyn Bradbury’s The Daily Blog, known as the “Breitbart of Read more

  • On Conservative Leftism: A Conversation between Daphne Lawless and Gregory W

    Reprinted from the Communist Rupture blog. Gregory W.: In the article, Against Conservative Leftism, you suggested that “21st century revolutionary classes will not look like those of the 1840s or even the 1980s,” and that “the left should seek to build on the new social forces and ways of living that neoliberal globalisation has thrown Read more

  • On the Oscar-nominated White Helmets Documentary

    Reprinted from The Syria Campaign.  Khaled Khatib is a White Helmet volunteer who worked on Netflix’s ‘White Helmet’ movie. It’s been nominated for an Oscar, results are announced on Sunday 26th. This is his story. Dear Fightback, I was 16 when the revolution started. In the first few years of the uprising I saw a lot Read more

  • George Soros, ‘Globalism,’ and Grassroots Revolt: How the Right Uses Conspiracy Theories to Appear Revolutionary

    (reposted from It’s Going Down. This article is from an anarchist viewpoint and thus Fightback does not necessarily agree with all its conclusions. However, it effectively demolishes many of the most important conspiracy theories on which modern fascism and Right-wing populism depend, and show why the Left must fight such ideas even when they claim Read more