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  • First issue of ‘Fightback’

    Welcome to the first issue of Fightback, newspaper of Fightback (Aotearoa/NZ). Fightback is a nationwide socialist organisation with branches in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch. With this paper we plan to continue and develop our agitation for struggle, solidarity and socialism. The fight against asset sales is a key struggle in Aotearoa/NZ. In this issue Read more

  • Wellington event: Solidarity protest against police brutality at Sydney Mardi Gras

    Two incidents of police brutality were reported after Sydney Mardi Gras 2013, with Youtube footage showing one young man being violently assaulted by police and slammed onto the street. See the footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxtFtVfAeeE Aotearoa/NZ group the Queer Avengers oppose the police brutality seen at Sydney Mardi Gras and are standing in solidarity with the Read more

  • Happy International Working Women’s Day!

    Gender and women’s liberation is essential to socialist revolution, which is why socialists founded International Working Women’s Day in 1910. Below we link some material we’ve previously published on women’s liberation. Contemporary struggles Women, Class and Revolution, Kassie Hartendorp Don’t Talk to Me About Sewing Machines, Talk to Me About Workers’ Rights! A Call to Read more

  • Bolivia’s Red October: What Mana can learn

    Mike Kyriazopoulos reviews Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia, by Jeffery R. Webber This major study of the movement in Bolivia that delivered hammer-blows to the neoliberal project is rich in lessons for activists in Aoteroa. In tracing the movement’s origins, Webber notes how its indigenous activists are inspired by the tradition of the Read more

  • Wellington event: What is Capitalism

    In Wellington over 2013, Fightback are holding a series of monthly discussions. We’re kicking off with “What is Capitalism,” presented by Joel Cosgrove. 6pm, Wednesday 13th March, 19 Tory St Facebook event here Read more

  • Iceland’s “peaceful revolution” – Myth and reality

    Writers for Fightback Those following Occupy circuits, and other forums concerned with economic justice, may have heard notions of an “Icelandic revolution.” In this narrative, the Icelandic government refused IMF conditions, nationalised the banks, gave debt relief to its citizens, and ‘crowdsourced’ a constitution. With Icelandic activist Hordur Torfason soon to tour Aotearoa/NZ, this narrative Read more