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  • Racism in Aotearoa/NZ

    by Byron Clark On March 23rd Christchurch witnessed the spectacle of a white pride demonstration. In a Saint Albans park, with plans to march down Papanui road, approximately thirty people gathered. Mostly young men, they wore military style garb, many of them adorned with swastikas. Organisers of the demonstration advertised it as a family friendly Read more

  • Teachers and public education under attack

    Rachel Broad, Fightback Hamilton branch, Aotearoa/NZ. Originally published by the Socialist Party of Australia. Teachers in  New Zealand are facing a perfect storm. For the time being they have faced down government attempts to increase class sizes but have also had to contend with school closures and mergers in Christchurch and a move to introduce Read more

  • France’s occupation in Mali: Past and present

    Joel Cosgrove Most mainstream reporting on events in Mali included various tropes, such as that Europe is under threat from Islamic fundamentalism, that the invasion of French troops was about freeing the local people, and the involvement of French troops was defended as being an undesirable but necessary outcome resulting from a bad situation. The Read more

  • The role of the centre-left in the campaign against asset sales

    Joel Cosgrove With the dismissal of the Maori Council’s water rights claim to the Supreme Court and the submission of the Anti-Asset Sales petition for a referendum, one phase of the broad campaign against the sale of assets has ended and the next has begun. Within the initial campaign against asset sales there were three Read more

  • April 27th: National day of action against asset sales

    Its time for the Government to listen to the majority of Aotearoa/NZ. Want to organise a protest in a smaller town? Contact Joe at 029 4455702. Auckland- Britomart 2pm. Wellington- Pigeon Park, 2pm Tauranga- Red Square, 10am Napier- War Memorial Square, 2pm Christchurch- corner Deans Ave & Riccarton Road to Hanmer Hot Springs Hotel, 2pm Read more

  • Wellington seafarers on the invasion of Finland, 1939

    Fightback is a Marxist organisation that houses a range of anti-Stalinist historical perspectives. In this article Mike Kyriazopolous argues for a third camp position on 20th Century history, which can be summed up as “neither Washington nor Moscow but international socialism.” Readers with a knowledge of the history of Trotskyism will know that the USSR’s invasion of Finland on Read more