Part 2: Neither Horseshoes nor Fishhooks (book review: Three-Way Fight)
Art by Rafaela Gaspar Part 2 of a two-part review of Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, Xtn Alexander, Matthew N. Lyons, and Janeen...
Part 1: Neither Horseshoes nor Fishhooks (book review: Three-Way Fight)
Part 1 of a two-part review of Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, Xtn Alexander, Matthew N. Lyons, and Janeen Porter (eds)....
Fightback donating to causes
Kia Ora friends and comrades, Fightback has a substantial surplus thanks to all our fabulous paid subscribers, so we decided to donate a total of $1,200 to a...
Digital Fascism and Antifascism
Can antifascism still thrive online? by Byron Clark The internet is real life. That’s how an article in The Atlantic, published the morning after the...
The Poverty of Roland Boer’s Philosophy About Chinese Socialism (Book Review)
Art by Rafaela Gaspar. Review of Roland Boer, Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners, Gateway East, Singapore: Springer, 2021A...
Fear of a Māori Planet: Chris Trotter's single-issue retreat from the Left
Art by Rafaela Gaspar Guest article by Scott Hamilton Chris Trotter's long journey from the social democratic left to the far right is complete. In a January...
Against campism: For a new internationalism
Last year we released the pamphlet Against campism: For a new internationalism, which was initially paywalled. The pamphlet includes the following articles:...
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The unreality of Stalinist realism
Happy New Year! Thank you to all subscribers for supporting our work, and especially our paid subscribers (subscribe here). Our first article for the year is...
A telescope to a communist future? Review of Anton Pannekoek, The Workers' Way to Freedom and Other Council Communist Writings
A telescope to a communist future? Review of Anton Pannekoek, The Workers' Way to Freedom and Other Council Communist Writings, edited by Robyn K. Winters....
Fightback magazine archives free online
Fightback's print magazine ran from 2013-2022 under the banner of Struggle, Solidarity, Socialism.In 2023, we shifted to this online-only newsletter (save...
An autopsy on the 2023 Aotearoa/New Zealand General Election
There is no life in those eyes | Jakobandrewnz wikimedia commons By Ani White In the last days of the spooky season, Aotearoa/New Zealand looks set to face...
Palestine/Israel response: Two pamphlets on internationalism
Cover art by Rafaela Gaspar for Fightback pamphlet Against Campism - For a New Internationalism. As Israel rains bombs on civilians, international politics...
In 2023 the populist right is still a mess
Art by Daniel Vernon. Article by Byron Clark, originally posted on his Substack on September 14th. Back in 2020 I wrote an article looking at the various...
Reprint: Queer Endurance / Defiance’s statement on the 2023 general election
This is a reprinted press statement from Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington-based group Queer Endurance / Defiance (QED). This year’s election campaign has been...
Transphobic rhetoric is becoming genocidal
This article by Byron Clark was originally published on his Substack, the Feijoa Dispatch. “But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or...
The new faces of climate change denial
By Byron Clark Climate change denial, at least in its most explicit form - denying the reality of anthropogenic climate change - has all but disappeared from...
The Red-Brown "zombie plague" - Part 3
The Germs of Red-Brown Politics Image by Rafaela Gaspar. This article by Daphne Lawless was originally published in May 2018. We reprint it now as part of a...
The Red-Brown "zombie plague" - Part 2
Image by Rafaela Gaspar. This article by Daphne Lawless was originally published in May 2018. We reprint it now as part of a series of key perspective...
Co-Governance and its Opponents
Article and photograph by Byron Clark. Aotearoa is on a long road toward decolonisation. These islands became part of the British empire with the signing of...
The Red-Brown “zombie plague”: how fascist ideas are becoming popular on the Left – Part 1
Image by Rafaela Gaspar. This article by Daphne Lawless was originally published in May 2018. We reprint it now as part of a series of key perspective...
Against campism: What makes some leftists support Putin?
Image by Rafaela Gaspar. This article by Daphne Lawless was originally published in November 2015. We reprint it now as part of a series of key perspective...
Against “conservative leftism” : Why reactionary responses to neoliberalism fail
Image by Rafaela Gaspar.This article by Daphne Lawless was originally published in February 2016.We reprint it now as part of a series of key perspective...
SWERF and TERF: The Red-Brown alliance in Policing Gender
Image from Ted Eytan, Wikimedia Commons. This article by Daphne Lawless was originally published in Fightback's 2019 Socialist Feminism issue. We reprint it...