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  • Christchurch event: Socialist Feminism Day School

    Fightback presents: Socialist Feminist Day School 2pm, Saturday November 16th WEA 59 Gloucester Street, Christchurch Schedule: Feminism 101 – Heleyni Pratley (Fightback) Men, anti-sexism and rape culture – Ian Anderson (Fightback) Why Marxists need to be Feminists  – Alison Pennington (Socialist Alliance, Australia) [Facebook event] Read more

  • A discourse on brocialism: On Brand, iconoclasm, and a woman’s place in the revolution

    A dialogue with Richard Seymour on the question of how to reconcile the fact that people need stirring up with the fact that the people doing the stirring so often fall down when it comes to treating women and girls like human beings. By Laurie Penny, reprinted from the New Statesman. It’s a good job I Read more

  • Union movement gathers for ‘Fairness at Work’

    Adapted from an article for Kai Tiaki Nursing NZ. By Grant Brookes, delegate for the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) and Fightback member. 132 delegates, representing nearly 300,000 union members, met in Wellington on 9-10 October. The Council of Trade Unions Biennial Conference 2013 examined the issues facing working people in New Zealand since the last Read more

  • Bid for recognition of first official climate change refugee

    Ioane Teitiota is currently appealing a High Court decision that refused him refugee status on the basis of climate change predictions. Teitiota came to New Zealand from the Pacific island of Kiribati in 2007 on a work visa that has recently expired. He has three children in New Zealand and argues that returning to Kiribati Read more

  • Palestine: Queer liberation vs Pinkwashing

    This talk by Ali Nissenbaum was originally delivered as part of Beyond, a conference organised by Queer Avengers. It is reprinted here from the Not Afraid of Ruins blog. Note: for the purpose of this article I’m using ‘queer’ as a broad term to describe all of us who are marginalised because our gender or sexual Read more

  • Love & Marriage: Queers, Capitalism and Equality

    After a six-and-a-half month passage through Parliament, marriage was finally legalized for same-sex couples in New Zealand in April 2013. Among the questions raised among left-wing queer and trans activists was whether to support marriage equality as a democratic right, or to oppose marriage in general. In October 2013, the Beyond conference organised in Wellington by the Read more