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  • Book Review: Dialectics of Revolution by Kevin B Anderson

    Book title: Dialectics of Revolution: Hegel, Marxism, and its critics through a lens of race, class, gender, and colonialismAuthor: Kevin B AndersonReleased: 2020Review by: Victor Osprey What is Marxism? Is it a philosophy, a science – or both? What distinguishes science from philosophy, and is it a distinction as easy to determine as we might Read more

  • The wealthy backers of the alt-right

    By BYRON CLARK The growth of right-wing populism in the mid-2010s has frequently been misconstrued as a working-class phenomenon (or at least, a “white working class” phenomenon). Donald Trump’s supporters in the US however were wealthier than the average American voter and analysis of the Brexit vote in the UK found no real correlation between Read more

  • “Working-class millionaires”: the housing bubble, inequality, and NIMBYism

    By DAPHNE LAWLESS This article is for Fightback’s magazine issue on class. Subscribe to the magazine or e-publication here. In my article on the Auckland local body elections in 2016, I paid special attention to (now former) Auckland Councillor Mike Lee – a long-standing Left-wing activist who had distinguished himself by opposing intensified housing in Read more

  • Is there a ‘middle class’ or ‘Professional-Managerial Class’?

    By ANI WHITE This article was written for Fightback’s upcoming magazine issue on class. Subscribe to the magazine or e-publication here. A podcast discussion based on this article can be heard at Where’s My Jetpack. In common vernacular, the concept of a ‘middle class’ has currency. 70% of Americans think of themselves as ‘middle-class.’1 It Read more

  • Intersectionality and class

    By BRONWEN BEECHEY This was written for Fightback’s magazine issue on class. Subscribe to the magazine here. The concept of intersectionality originates from a 1989 article by Kimberlé Crenshaw, a law studies professor and one of the founders of Critical Race Theory. While Critical Race Theory (CRT) has become one of the latest spectres haunting Read more

  • Through the maze – accessing social housing in Aotearoa New Zealand

    by BRONWEN BEECHEY The author is a social worker working for an NGO in South Auckland. As of March 2021, there were 23,688 applicants on the waiting list for social housing in NZ, an increase of 45 per cent from the same time last year.1 To qualify for social housing, you must be a New Read more