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  • Fightback ‘climate crisis’ issue released

    Fightback (Aotearoa / New Zealand) is an ecosocialist, socialist-feminist group that publishes a regular magazine. In 2015, Fightback stepped back from our monthly printing schedule towards less regular, themed issues; an issue on the Housing Crisis; on the fight for Secure Hours and a Living Wage; a successful crowdfunded issue dedicated to paid writing by Read more

  • Book Review: The FIRE Economy (Jane Kelsey)

    By Ian Anderson, Fightback (Aotearoa / New Zealand). Professor Jane Kelsey has made headlines in recent months combating the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), a secretive trade agreement that seeks to constitutionally embed neoliberalism. Her latest book, The FIRE Economy: New Zealand’s Reckoning, is a welcome explanation of the political-economic history that has led us Read more

  • Against campism: What makes some leftists support Putin?

    By Daphne Lawless, Fightback Tāmaki Makarau At the time of writing, Russian forces are intervening in the civil wars in Ukraine and Syria; supporting the rebellions in the eastern provinces in the first case, and dropping bombs in support of the government of Bashar al-Assad in the second. While he may have been a general Read more

  • Change Everything: Climate Justice Post-Paris (Oil Free Wellington)

    By Michelle Ducat, Oil Free Wellington. To be published in Fightback’s upcoming Climate Crisis magazine issue. Oil Free Wellington started in late 2012 when the government announced it has granted Texas-based oil giant Anadarko a permit to prospect for oil off Wellington’s coast in the Pegasus Basin. Anadarko had a 25% working interest in BP’s Read more

  • Christchurch Fightback Branch Launch + Potluck + AGM

    Fightback in Christchurch has been operating smoothly in an ad hoc way for a while now but it’s time to formalise a branch in order to have processes to keep our organising, activities, and upcoming events going smoothly. We’re opening this event up to non-members and close contacts who are interested in coming along, having Read more

  • Book Review: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate

    by Naomi Klein: Simon & Schuster, 2014 Review by Daphne Lawless (Fightback Auckland / Tāmaki Makarau) It’s quite depressing to note how long the facts have been out there that capitalism is – literally and figuratively – eating up the only planet we have. Scientists were telling US President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 that the Read more