Grid of posts 2×3

  • Germany: Fighting Europe’s biggest hole

    Guest article by Jojo (Fightback correspondent based in Germany). For upcoming magazine issue on the Climate Crisis. When the Conference of Parties (COP15) took place in Copenhagen in 2009, the mobilisation of the climate movement focused mainly on appealing to the governments meeting there to stop climate change. Since these governments were obviously not questioning… Read more

  • Poem: Cassandra warns of climate change

    Poem solicited for publication in Fightback’s upcoming Climate Crisis magazine issue. Tam Vosper lives in Christchurch and is currently working on his Master of Arts (in English) at the University of Canterbury. He also, among sundry other distractions, reads and writes poems. For my discomforting prophecies I was harried past all asylum to the very… Read more

  • Editorial: Fightback ‘Internationalism’ Issue Out Now

    For our fourth magazine issue of 2015, Fightback is publishing an international-themed issue. This includes a number of reprints from international sources, aswell as original content. As we go to print, images of dead Syrian refugees have prompted international outcry, with some concessions won already – the New Zealand government recently announced plans to let 100 more refugees in. Fightback supports international working-class solidarity,… Read more

  • Contents Page: Voices of Women and Gender Minorities

    Crowdfunded special edition of Fightback magazine (subscribe here), dedicated to radical writing by women and gender minorities. All contributors were paid. Editorial Not All Men, Bella Wallace Judgementality and the “neutral, objective” voice of whiteness, MZ Chatting “Pasifika” and “Feminism”, Malia Grace We talk a lot about the struggle, Sian Torrington Policing the colonial project of… Read more

  • A Son Samoa (Voices of Women and Gender Minorities)

    Article originally published in Fightback magazine’s special issue dedicated to paid radical writing by women and minorities. By Falenaoti Mokalagi. Content Warning: sexual assault. Yesterday a son of Samoa was jailed 25 years after the fact I sat next to your daughter Samoa Birthed in Aotearoa I READ OUT ALOUD  the impact of this son… Read more

  • Enclosure and Resistance in the State Housing Struggle (Voices of Women and Gender Minorities)

    Article originally published in Fightback magazine’s special issue dedicated to paid radical writing by women and gender minorities. Save Our Homes is a research and praxis collective based in Tamaki Makaurau. We believe that liveable housing is a human right and should be accessible to all. We run a website saveourhomes.co.nz as a resource and… Read more