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Venezuela: The right-wing on the streets
Friday, 28 February 2014, 11:23 am | Fightback
Venezuela has experienced a wave of protests over the past few weeks. Demonstrations against the government, largely by university students, began after the hard-line opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez called for supporters to go onto the streets and ... More >>
Auckland & Wellington: Actions against Israeli whitewashing
Monday, 24 February 2014, 5:21 pm | Fightback
In the capital, Aotearoa BDS Network challenged a performance by Israeli dance troupe Batsheva (touring an event entitled Deca Dance as part of the NZ Festival). Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs describes Batsheva as “perhaps the best known global ... More >>
Obituary: Mike Kyriazopoulos
Friday, 21 February 2014, 3:27 pm | Fightback
Last month Fightback lost one of its leading members, Michael Kyriazopoulos. In Aotearoa he was known in the workers movement as Mike Kay. Mike came to us from England but he had a strong Greek heritage, and had close family living in both Israel and South ... More >>
Global Roundup: Venezuelans support Bolivarian revolution
Thursday, 20 February 2014, 12:09 pm | Fightback
Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H), formerly a part of Yugoslavia, has seen massive anti-government workers' protests. They started in the town of Tuzla as a protest by unemployed workers against privatisation of local factories, and ended up with the town's government ... More >>
Mainstream racism and white power groups
Tuesday, 18 February 2014, 5:37 pm | Fightback
On Waitangi Day 2014, the NZ Herald ran a “protest-free” edition, proudly announcing this editorial decision with an image of a raised fist. The Facebook page Wake Up NZ (with around 10,000 likes) reported the fist as a “white power” symbol, associated ... More >>
Wellington action: Don’t dance with Israeli apartheid
Tuesday, 18 February 2014, 4:53 pm | Fightback
This year’s NZ Festival includes four performances by the Israeli Batsheva dance company. Batsheva is an integral part of Israel’s Brand Israel public relations campaign. More >>
Deep sea drilling: The spirit of Mururoa?
Monday, 27 January 2014, 11:53 am | Fightback
In June 1973, the NZ Labour government sent two Navy frigates to the Pacific atoll of Mururoa to formally protest against France's testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere. The Spirit of Peace, the Fri and the Vega, also sailed to Mururoa to ... More >>
Wealth for World’s Workers: History of NZ’s labour movement
Monday, 23 December 2013, 4:38 pm | Fightback
1821 – The first recorded wage dispute in New Zealand was in the Bay of Islands in 1821. Māori timber-workers stopped work because they wanted to be paid ‘for their labour in Money, as was the case in England, or else in Gun Powder’. More >>
Christchurch event: History of New Zealand’s labour movement
Monday, 16 December 2013, 4:12 pm | Fightback
During a visit to New Zealand in the late 19th century the American labour activist Henry Lloyd declared: 'We think of New Zealand as a new country but the fact is that by 1890 New Zealand was one of the oldest of the modern societies in economic iniquity ... More >>
The climate crisis
Tuesday, 26 November 2013, 5:52 pm | Fightback
World production and consumption have been increasing rapidly in recent decades due to global ‘westernization’. While socially this can mean a higher standard of living for many in the developing world, the results are mostly negative on the local, ... More >>
Fighting Rape Culture in Aotearoa: A Survivor’s Perspective
Monday, 25 November 2013, 12:16 pm | Fightback
I would like to acknowledge that the last few weeks have been triggering and overwhelming for many survivors. I myself have had moments where I could not listen to the news and had to take days off work because it was overwhelming. I am thankful to everyone ... More >>
Pseudoscience on the left:Imaginary answers to real problems
Thursday, 21 November 2013, 4:23 pm | Fightback
Anyone familiar with the political Left will be familiar with well-meaning activists insisting that scientists and experts are “lying to us” about important features of our daily life, and only a dedicated band of outsiders know the truth. More >>
USA: Election breakthrough for a Seattle socialist
Monday, 18 November 2013, 11:34 am | Fightback
Socialist alternative candidate Kshama Sawant had a narrow lead over four-term incumbent Democrat Richard Conlin in an election for a seat on the Seattle City Council, as of November 13–a stunning result for a revolutionary socialist and a powerful symbol ... More >>
Some questions regarding rape culture in Aotearoa/NZ
Monday, 18 November 2013, 11:13 am | Fightback
This week has not been a particularly pleasant time to live in Aotearoa. The revelation by TV3 that there has been a youth gang working at intoxicating and raping young girls and then bragging about it on the internet obviously sent some major shock ... More >>
Aotearoa: Socialist solutions needed to fix housing crisis
Wednesday, 13 November 2013, 11:26 am | Fightback
New Zealand is in the midst of a housing crisis. This crisis was created by decades of neo-liberal policy including the deregulation of housing consent and planning, the sell-off of state housing stock, and the failure to close tax loop-holes. More >>
Stop Rape Now: National day of action against rape culture
Thursday, 7 November 2013, 2:41 pm | Fightback
Recently, an organised criminal group called Roastbusters were exposed as a gang-rape organisation who targeted intoxicated and underage girls, then publicly shamed them online. More >>
Stop Rape Now: National day of action against rape culture
Thursday, 7 November 2013, 2:41 pm | Fightback
Recently, an organised criminal group called Roastbusters were exposed as a gang-rape organisation who targeted intoxicated and underage girls, then publicly shamed them online. More >>
Union movement gathers for ‘Fairness at Work’
Wednesday, 30 October 2013, 5:42 pm | Fightback
132 delegates, representing nearly 300,000 union members, met in Wellington on 9-10 October. The Council of Trade Unions Biennial Conference 2013 examined the issues facing working people in New Zealand since the last gathering in 2011, and debated ... More >>
Bid for recognition of first official climate change refugee
Wednesday, 30 October 2013, 5:20 pm | Fightback
Ioane Teitiota is currently appealing a High Court decision that refused him refugee status on the basis of climate change predictions. Teitiota came to New Zealand from the Pacific island of Kiribati in 2007 on a work visa that has recently expired. More >>
Education and Capitalism: The Massey-McDonald’s partnership
Thursday, 24 October 2013, 4:47 pm | Fightback
Massey University has formed a partnership with McDonalds Restaurants that will allow a number of McDonald’s store managers to cross-credit their prior learning towards an undergraduate business degree. More >>
