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  • Video: Green is Red – The case for eco-Marxist politics

    Presented by Daphne Lawless, at Fightback 2013 Wellington conference. Read more

  • Video: MANA’s Te Hāmua Nikora at the Ikaroa-Rāwhiti candidates debate

    Sunday 9 June, “Hei Waha” Debate, Taita Community Hall, Lower Hutt. Statement on poverty. Read more

  • Auckland: Better housing for workers needed

    Daphne Lawless, Auckland Fightback member. Preliminary feedback has just closed on the Auckland Council’s Draft Unitary Plan, a document which will have major impact on how working people in the Super City live, work and play. When the single Auckland Council replaced Auckland’s four cities, three districts and regional council in 2010, the law stated Read more

  • Fightback supports McDonalds workers

    Ian Anderson, Fightback Wellington branch member. Fightback actively supported unionised McDonalds workers as part of our 2013 winter conference. On the evening of Saturday the 1st of June, members and supporters distributed nearly 2000 leaflets across Wellington McDonalds sites; Newtown, the Basin Reserve, Courtenay Place, Taranaki Street, Lambton Quay, Manners Mall and Bunny Street (which Read more

  • Unite takes on McDonald’s in high stakes fight for low-paid workers

    Originally printed by Green Left Weekly (Australia). By Joel Cosgrove, Fightback member. After a relatively quiet couple of years, the Unite union, which organises fast food and other previously unorganised sectors, has burst into action with a vigorous industrial campaign against McDonald’s. The key demands are focused around winning a NZ$15 starting wage, an end Read more

  • Saturday night, June 1, Wellington – Fightback against McDonald’s!

    As part of its 2013 conference Fightback (Aotearoa/NZ) is supporting a Unite membership campaign to lift pay and establish guaranteed hours of work at McDonald’s workplaces. We’ll be distributing this leaflet to McDonald’s customers: WHY FIGHTBACK SUPPORTS MCDONALDS WORKERS Between 7pm and 9.30pm on Saturday June 1 Fightback members and other supporters of the Unite-led campaign will Read more