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  • Review: Black Faggot

    Reviewed by Ian Anderson Black Faggot, performed in Auckland for Pride and Fringe Festival, should tour everywhere. Playwright Victor Rodgers’ examination of the “gay Samoan male experience” is timely and important. It’s also a crowd-pleasing comedy, selling out for its first season. Direction, by Roy Ward, is spare and character-driven. Iaheto Ah Hi (Sione’s Wedding) Read more

  • Tens of thousands challenge asset sales

    This article by Jared Phillips, member of Fightback, was originally published by the Socialist Party of Australia.   At the beginning of 2011 the ruling National Party in New Zealand (Aotearoa) announced electoral policy for the partial sale of several major state assets including the Solid Energy coal company, Air New Zealand, and three major Read more

  • Solidarity needed: Stop increases to migrant seasonal workers health insurance

    The death this year of a Tongan worker employed under the Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme has sparked discussions between Tonga’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and the insurance company he paid for his health cover. The issue is whether the worker died because of a pre-existing condition or from a new condition or accident. The RSE scheme allows Read more

  • Final issue of ‘The Spark’

    The Spark February 2013 (PDF) The Spark has been the magazine of the Workers Party for a number of years. The Workers Party has decided to change its name to Fightback and as of next month The Spark will be replaced by a new paper which will share the new name of the organisation. On page 18 Read more

  • Annette Sykes: “We belong to the water and the water belongs to us”

    Fightback argues for nationalisation of resources, such as water, under community control. In 2011 a Waitangi Tribunal claim, on proprietary title to water, challenged government plans to sell off private shares in power companies – particularly Mighty River Power. Annette Sykes is a lawyer involved in the water claim, a Mana candidate, and long-time tino Read more

  • Book Review: Pirate Cinema, by Cory Doctorow

    Reviewed by Byron Clark Cory Doctorow is a blogger and activist for civil liberties in the age of the advanced information and communication technologies and the war on terrorism. His near future speculative fiction novels such as Little Brother set in an America obsessed with anti-terrorism, have examined these issues, his next young adult book Read more