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  • Auckland Pride: No Pride in Prisons responds

    Article by Emilie & No Pride in Prisons concerning events at Auckland Pride 2015, reprinted from GayNZ. Trigger warning: Rape mention. I: ON THE EVENTS OF PRIDE 2015 Earlier this year, Auckland Pride Festival Incorporated (Pride Inc.) permitted the New Zealand Police Force and Department of Corrections to march their members in uniform and on Read more

  • Crowdfunding campaign meets goal!

    Fightback recently launched a campaign for paid radical writing by women and gender minorities. This campaign has now reached its goal of $2600, with three days to spare. This means we can pay all contributors a minimum of $100 per page. While Fightback can cover the costs of printing, we couldn’t have raised the funds Read more

  • Fightback Winter Conference 2015

    Fightback is a socialist-feminist, ecosocialist organisation (fightback.org.nz/about) that holds an annual public conference. This year we’re holding the public sessions at St Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington, on the 3rd-4th of July [Facebook event] If you’re interested in possibilities for transforming our exploitative, oppressive society on the basis of social and ecological justice, feel free to Read more

  • Reprint: Syriza’s Red Lines

    On Friday, Greece delayed its debt payment to the International Monetary Fund. Is a default imminent? Michael Roberts has worked as an economist for over thirty years in the City of London financial center. His new book,The Long Depression, is out next month from Haymarket. Article republished from Jacobin Magazine. In the early hours of Read more

  • Nationalism and the left: A reflection on Winston Peters and the Northland by-election

    Submitted to Fightback by David Comrade. In the run up to the Northland by-election I found myself at first surprised, then increasingly depressed, at the support given to Winston Peters by socialist friends on Facebook. While much of the support was grudging, along the lines of ‘I hate like Winston, but I hate National more’, Read more

  • WGTN Left Forum: Housing & Homelessness

    A discussion facilitated by Fightback. Joel Cosgrove on the causes of the current housing bubble. Kassie Hartendorp on queer youth homelessness. Kawika Aipa on homelessness in Hawai’i. Robert Whitaker on Renters United. Free entry 2-4pm, Sunday May 31st 17 Tory Street Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington [Facebook event] Read more