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  • Philippines’ Typhoon Haiyan crisis: For climate justice now! Fight, don’t be afraid! Makibaka! Huwag Matakot!

    Statement by the Partido Lakas ng Masa (Party of the Labouring Masses, PLM). Reprinted from Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal. November 10, 2013 — Partido Lakas ng Masa — The people are still reeling from the impacts of possibly the biggest typhoon to strike the country. Death toll numbers are rising rapidly. There is Read more

  • Aotearoa/NZ: Socialist solutions needed to address housing crisis

    The following article by CWI reporters in Aotearoa/New Zealand first appeared in the Australian magazine The Socialist. New Zealand is in the midst of a housing crisis. This crisis was created by decades of neo-liberal policy including the deregulation of housing consent and planning, the sell-off of state housing stock, and the failure to close Read more

  • Roastbusters, rape culture and the problem of criminality

    By Anne Russell. Reprinted from Scoop.co.nz. Trigger warning: rape, discussion of victim-blaming. Stop Rape Now Day of Action details here: http://tinyurl.com/md4cn7j It is, unfortunately, a truism that the older you get, the more of your friends have been raped. Although popular narratives suggest that rape victims are easy to identify, many of these friends will never Read more

  • Stop Rape Now: National day of action against rape culture

    Recently, an organised criminal group called Roastbusters were exposed as a gang-rape organisation who targeted intoxicated and underage girls, then publicly shamed them online. The police knew about this group’s action since 2011 but failed to stop them and claimed that they were powerless to act because none of the girls who were raped are Read more

  • November issue of Fightback online

    Welcome to the November 2013 issue of Fightback. In mid-October, the Walk Free Foundation released the first Global Slavery Report. Drawing data from UNICEF and the US State Department, the report estimated that around 30 million people are enslaved world-wide. No report is unbiased, and it is worth noting that the Walk Free Foundation was Read more

  • National youth wellbeing research highlights the impacts of increasing poverty

    Polly Peek A summary of the ‘Youth ‘12’ research carried out by the Adolescent Health Research Group based at Auckland University has recently been released, showing a number of positive health and social wellbeing factors improving for New Zealand teens, but also revealing concerning increases in poverty-related issues. The ‘Health and Wellbeing of Secondary School Read more