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  • Copyleft: Marxism, the internet and publishing

    by DAPHNE LAWLESS On 23 April this year, Lawrence & Wishart (L&W), publishers of the most well-known English translation of the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, issued a “take-down notice” to the Marxists Internet Archive (MIA – http://marxists.org). L&W demanded that MIA remove from their website all the works to which L&W Read more

  • WGTN conference keynote: Elections and community struggle (featuring Hone Harawira)

    Opening night of Capitalism: Not Our Future, a conference on struggle, solidarity and socialism. 2014 is a General Election year for Aotearoa/NZ. The last General Election saw the lowest turnout since women won the right to vote. This year, Fightback will be supporting the MANA Movement, whose stated mission is to bring rangatiratanga to the Read more

  • May 2014 issue of Fightback now online

    This issue of Fightback magazine comes out in preparation for our Capitalism: Not Our Future conference, to be held in Wellington over the first weekend of June 2014. Please check out the programme here.   If capitalism is not our future, what is? The bureaucratic states of Eastern Europe were a far cry from the Read more

  • New Zealand’s Union Movement: A socialist perspective

    By Committee for a Workers’ International. Abridged version of a full perspectives document to be found here. New Zealand employers are seeking to maintain their profits by increasing productivity. In most cases this means people working harder and faster for less money and fewer conditions. Very little is being invested by employers into research and Read more

  • Socialists and trade unions

    By Ben Petersen (Fightback – Wellington) Socialists have a long relationship with trade unions. There are exciting chapters of history where socialists have led important working class battles, such as the fight for the eight-hour working day. Today, socialists will often meet in union offices and often will seek to involve unions in our campaigns. Read more

  • Democracy, Freedom and the Realisation of the Imagination – or ‘What is Socialism’

    By Joel Cosgrove (Fightback – Wellington) (Notes from a talk in the “Introduction to Marxism” series) We spent last week talking about capitalism (a social/economic structure which is based on the production of things for profit). The flip side of a discussion of capitalism is a discussion of socialism. Clearly this is an hour long Read more