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  • Pasefika Issue: Untitled

    This article is also published as a part of Fightback’s special Pasefika magazine issue. When the first European ships travelled through the Pacific, their sails cut into the clouds of the skies. Papalagi, ‘cloud breaker’. In the lands of Samoa, our people prayed to these sailing gods, that they may not enter our shores. We Read more

  • An uncomfortable conversation: Greens still wrong about immigration

    Article by Ben Peterson, originally published on leftwin.org. The Greens new interpretation of their immigration policy has generated a lot of discussion on the left, both on this blog and elsewhere. James Shaw’s comments committing the Greens to halve immigration numbers have been controversial. In response, immigration spokesperson Denise Roche has offered a defense of Read more

  • Pasefika Issue: In/Visible

    This article is also published as part of Fightback’s special Pasefika Fightback magazine issue. Article by Luisa Tora, luisa.k.tora@gmail.com. I’ve been asked to discuss why the visibility of the Pacific lesbian community is important to me, and why I think this community is invisible. I’ve also been invited to speak about an exhibition that I am co-curating Read more

  • Pasefika Issue: Two poems by Tusiata Avia

    These poems are also published in a special Pasefika Issue of Fightback magazine. Demonstration The thing is even after all these years even after all you know after all the times you have visited classrooms , divided them into four pointed to one quarter and said: All you people have been sexually abused to get Read more

  • Editorial: Electoral Politics Issue

    Welcome to the summer 2016 issue of Fightback magazine. This year we have moved from a bi-monthly schedule to a quarterly schedule, focusing on planning themed issues rather than churning content out. We have grown our modest subscriber base to just over 100. If you would like to subscribe, please click here. We are proud Read more

  • Donald Trump and the ‘Populist International’

    Article by Annie Applebaum, reprinted from the Washington Post (where it was printed under the title ‘Trump is a threat to the West as we know it, even if he loses‘). This was written before Donald Trump’s shock election as US President, and the Washington Post is far from a typical source for a socialist Read more