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  • The Whale Oil leaks: Anti-politics from above

    by Daphne Lawless As we go to press, the election campaign has been turned upside down by a new book by investigative journalist Nicky Hager. Dirty Politics is based mainly on a leak of 2 gigabytes of emails and Facebook messages from “Whale Oil”, the vicious right-wing scandal-mongering blog edited by Cameron Slater. The book lays Read more

  • National and its right wing friends

    National today appears to be seeing a level of popularity unheard of in the MMP era. But behind the polls, the reality is much more mundane. Most political polls exclude undecided voters and those planning not to cast a ballot, yet these groups can occasionally make up as many as 15% of respondents. At the Read more

  • Where Internet MANA came from

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  • Miriam Pierard of the Internet Party: speaking the language of youth

    Miriam Pierard of the Internet Party: “Speaking the language of youth” by DAPHNE LAWLESS, Fightback (Auckland)   Miriam Pierard, the 28-year-old Internet Party candidate for Auckland Central, is no stranger to Fightback – “a very good magazine”. She compliments us in particular on our “really amazing article” explaining our decision to support the Internet Party-MANA Read more

  • Unite against poverty wages and zero-hour contracts: An interview with Heleyni Pratley

    Heleyni Pratley is an organiser for Unite Union and a member of Fightback (Aotearoa/NZ). In May, Heleyni attended the first global conference on fast food organising. Fightback writer Ian Anderson interviewed her. FB: Can you tell us about Unite Union and how you first got involved? HP: Sure, so I got involved with Unite Union Read more

  • Hone Harawira: Burning the flag or accepting the evil

    Burning the Israeli flag in Auckland in protest over the murder of innocent civilians in Gaza is nothing to be ashamed of” said MANA Leader and Tai Tokerau MP, Hone Harawira. “Calling for both sides to stand down when one side is annihilating the other though, IS something to be ashamed of.” “On one side Read more