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  • Government shifts responsibility for enforcing welfare reforms

    Polly Peek, Fightback (Christchurch). Recently released details around how the government plans to see its latest round of welfare reforms carried out, show that the Ministry of Social Development is taking a hands off approach to the implantation of its controversial changes. The most recent benefit reforms, which came into effect on the 15th of Read more

  • Racist “Pakeha Party” ignores history

    Thomas Inwood, member of Fightback and Anti-Racist Action (Christchurch). A Facebook page for “The Pakeha Party” caused a stir in early July, quickly gaining more ‘likes’ than any other political party in New Zealand. While the founder, David Ruck, admitted that the idea was initially a joke between friends, the torrent of interest has resulted Read more

  • Government expanding surveillance powers

    By Byron Clark, Fightback Christchurch member. Public protests against the GCSB bill will take place around the country on July 27th. [Auckland event] [Hamilton event] [Wellington event]   [Nelson event] [Waihopi Spybase event]   [Christchurch event] [Dunedin event] The spectacle of Kim Dotcom going face to face with John Key to make a submission on the Read more

  • Cornel West: “President Obama is a global George Zimmerman”

    Transcript of an interview on Democracy Now AMY GOODMAN: In the aftermath of the Zimmerman verdict and the mass protests around the country, we turn right now to Dr. Cornel West, professor at Union Theological Seminary, author of numerous books, co-host of the radio show Smiley & West with Tavis Smiley. Together, they Read more

  • Millenial generation: Casualisation and resistance

    Ian Anderson, Fightback. Middle-brow sections of the capitalist press have criticised ‘millenials’ in recent months, and millenials in turn have responded through blogs and other media. Also termed Generation Y, the ‘millenial’ generation broadly covers people born between 1980 and 2000 – “teenagers and twenty-somethings.” In May, Time Magazine ran a cover story describing millenials Read more

  • PRISM, Tempora and the case of Edward Snowden

    Byron Clark, Fightback. The past few years have seen the US led “war on terror” morph from a bloody ground war in Iraq and Afghanistan to something resembling a Hollywood techno-thriller. Three years after soldier Bradley Manning was arrested for leaking an enormous trove of classified documents via Wikileaks, another whistle-blower has revealed that American Read more