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  • The ongoing attack on workers’ rights

    Joel Cosgrove, Fightback member. It’s ironic that the Employment Relations (Continuity of Labour) Bill is being put forward by National backbench MP Jami-Lee Ross. The bill which allows employers to bring in temporary staff (scabs) to work when workers are on strike is  being put forward by an MP who has no history of actual Read more

  • Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists in Egypt: Stay in the streets … all power to the people

    Originally published by Revolutionary Socialists (Egypt). July 3, 2013. Every Egyptian should be proud that millions went out into all the streets and squares of Egypt. Not only are they making their own history, but the history of all humanity. They have confirmed that all power lies with the revolutionary people, not with the Brotherhood and Read more

  • Review: Five Broken Cameras (Palestinian documentary)

    Directors: Emad Bernat, Guy Davidi Distributed by: Kino Lorber Release year: 2011 Review: Ian Anderson Screened as part of Aotearoa/NZ’s first national Conference on Palestine, Five Broken Cameras portrays the resistance of a Palestinian village (Bil’in) to the expansion of Israel’s Separation Wall and settlements. Strictly the wall is illegal in international law, and the Read more

  • Istanbul to Brazil: neoliberalism, democracy and resistance

    From a talk given by Andrew Tait. Originally printed by the International Socialist Organisation (Aotearoa). Three weeks ago, police moved in to clear a protest camp out of an inner-city park, to make way for a shopping mall. The protesters were a mixed bunch: leftists, environmentalists, even architects,who felt they had no other option than Read more

  • What is work? Wage labour, unpaid work and feminism

    Ian Anderson, Fightback coordinating editor. With contributions by Kassie Hartendorp. Labour, or work, is central to historical materialist (or Marxist) views of history. Stereotypically, this means only caring about men wearing overalls and working in factories. However, factory labour is only one form of wage labour, which in turn is only one form of labour. Read more

  • June issue of Fightback online

    Welcome to the June 2013 issue of Fightback, publication of Fightback (Aotearoa/NZ). Fightback is a socialist organisation with branches in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch. On Queens’ Birthday Weekend, 31st May-2nd June, Fightback held its annual public conference in Wellington. In this issue we include the text of two presentations given during the conference, Grant Read more