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  • Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by UN Peacekeepers

    This article will be published in Fightback’s upcoming International-themed issue. By Cassandra Mudgway, PhD Student at University of Canterbury (UC). Vice President of the UC’s Feminist Society (UC FEMSOC). Twitter: @legallyfeminist Peacekeepers: Perpetrators Casual observation of media news stories would suggest that United Nations Peacekeeping operations have been at the centre of so-called “sex scandals” Read more

  • WGTN Event: Fightback Women & Gender Minorities Mag Issue Launch Party

    Earlier this year, Fightback put out a call for women and gender minorities to submit art/poetry/articles around the themes of socialism, feminism, anti-capitalism and decolonisation, after we recognised a lack of writers in this area of the socialist press. We had 89 awesome supporters pledge donations of a total of $2670 (!!!) that we split Read more

  • Audio: Where To For The Left (AKL event)

    Panel discussion with Sue Bradford (Left Think Tank), Michael Treen (UNITE Union), Daphne Lawless (Fightback) and Jonathan King (Auckland Action Against Poverty) Sue Bradford: Mike Treen: Daphne Lawless: Discussion: Read more

  • Greek crisis: SYRIZA’s dead-end

    By Daphne Lawless (Fightback Aotearoa/ New Zealand), August 21 2015 Greece’s sovereign debt crisis – in effect, the country’s bankruptcy at the hands of the European Central Bank and the German-led power bloc in the European Union – turned that country’s politics upside down. The Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) rocketed from 5% of Read more

  • GERMANY: Movements in the heart of the beast

    Guest article by JoJo, a Fightback correspondent based in Germany. In the last few months the development of the left in Greece has been watched with interest by leftists all over the world. The austerity policies against which the Syriza government and social movements tried to fight were imposed on Greece by the other countries Read more

  • Thousands rally against TPPA across Aotearoa

    See also Why the TPPA has stalled, and how it can be stopped Read more