Grid of posts 2×3

  • Mystery Morrison: The face of capitalist ‘local ownership’

    By Ani White (Fightback Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington) Meet John Morrison, also known as ‘Mystery Morrison.’ With his moustache, strong eyebrows, and sports background, Morrison has the bona fides of a Pākehā, Kiwi bloke. He’s the sort of guy you could have a beer with, assuming you’re also the sort of person he would have a beer with Read more

  • Against “conservative leftism” : Why reactionary responses to neoliberalism fail

    by Daphne Lawless. For Fightback’s upcoming magazine issue on neoliberalism. UPDATE 15/3/17: A German-language version of this article by Klaus Mahrer is now available. If you had told a socialist or a radical of a few decades ago that Marxist socialists would not only be defending the Union Jack-emblazoned New Zealand flag – a remnant Read more

  • Bernie Sanders and the Killer Mike factor

    Article by Alexander Billet, reprinted from Red Wedge Magazine. Originally posted on the 2nd of February 2016.  Let’s put something aside here. There is a very legitimate and challenging debate among an admittedly small radical left regarding support for Bernie Sanders’ run for the Democratic nomination. Anyone who says it’s not challenging, or that the Read more

  • ‘A Toxic Combination’– The health impacts of the TPPA

    Notes of a talk given at public meetings in Newtown, Lower Hutt, Otaki and Wainuiomata organised by TPP Free Wellington and the Horowhenua TPPA Action Group, January 2016. Reprinted from Grant Brookes’ NZNO blog. Kia ora koutou. Good evening. My name is Grant Brookes. I am a Registered Nurse, and the President of the New Read more

  • Fightback changes structure to prioritise media work

    On January the 16th-17th 2016, Fightback members convened at Tapu te Ranga marae in Wellington, to discuss the future of the organisation. This was a crucial conference for Fightback. Recognising how thin we are on the ground, Fightback members opted for a constitutional restructuring, dissolving the national representative committee and branches, in favour of a Read more

  • In defence of the ‘user pays youth generation’

    By Ian Anderson, Fightback. The Daily Blog’s Martyn Bradbury recently posted an article seeking to characterise John Key’s electoral appeal. Bradbury contends that Key appeals to a ‘user pays youth generation’: This empty aspiration appeals to a user pays youth generation who have no idealogical [sic] compass, and is best expressed through the naked narcism Read more