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  • Pasefika Issue: Half Cast Away

    This article is also published in Fightback’s special Pasefika magazine issue. When I think back to my childhood, I am a Mowgli-like child sitting crossed legged in my Uncle’s living room. Second hand furniture surrounds me; a clutter of memories piled high in every corner of every room. My cousin’s 21st keys, family photos extending… Read more

  • Pacific Panthers and International Solidarity: An interview with Teanau Tuiono

    Fightback sat down with educator and Pacific Panther Teanau Tuiono to discuss his experiences, and lessons, as a political activist. How has your whakapapa factored into your political work? I had a bicultural upbringing. On the one hand I’m a first generation pacific islander in Aotearoa: my family migrated here from the islands for work… Read more

  • Socialists retain seats in Australian local body elections

    Article by Bronwen Beechey. Local body politics has been traditionally regarded as being about roads, rubbish and rates. However, empowering communities is an important factor in building resistance to neo-liberal capitalism. In Australia, a number of socialist councillors have been standing up for the rights of those usually ignored by local bodies. In Victoria, recent… Read more

  • 5 Myths about the Syrian revolution

    “The start of solidarity is correcting the narrative.” -Leila Al-Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab, Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and Civil War. Since the Syrian revolution began in 2011, a mixture of propaganda and conspiracy theories has obscured the nature of the conflict. As the Syrian conflict is the biggest refugee crisis in a generation, we… Read more

  • Green Vomit and statistical nonsense: the lies you hear about immigration and the Auckland housing crisis

      Article by Tim Leadbeater. Reprinted from the International Socialist Organisation (Aotearoa/NZ). A few days ago the Labour party announced a new policy of increasing police numbers by 1000. I groaned at this news but it didn’t really surprise me. Then yesterday I heard of the new Greens policy on immigration, with James Shaw calling for a drastic… Read more

  • Syria Solidarity: National day of action 29th October

    Civilians in Aleppo and across Syria are being intensively bombed by Russia with bunker bombs, phosphorous bombs, napalm, thermobaric and cluster bombs; and by the Syrian regime with chlorine containing barrel bombs; targetting homes, schools, hospitals, rescue teams, and underground shelters . Like many Syrian cities, Aleppo has been under a starvation siege. The regime… Read more