Areej’s Story of Survival and Hope
My name is Areej Abu Nasser, I am 26 years old, and I come from Jabalia Camp in northern Gaza. My family and I have endured unimaginable pain and loss. In...
Left Renewal article and webinar
We would like to call attention to an article and webinar by international co-thinkers Left Renewal, who have drawn on our work in developing their...
A Mother’s Struggle in Gaza — Sabreen’s Story
Sabreem’s family My name is Sabreen. I am a mother of three children: Osama and Jana, seven-year-old twins, and Khitam, who is five. I am also in my ninth...
Solidarity donations
Art by Rafaela Gaspar. We would like to thank all paid subscribers, and let you know what your subscriptions are going towards. Firstly, we have paid the...
Mapping the Conservative Left: Why Some Socialists Sound Like the Right
Image by Rafaela Gaspar. In 2016, Fightback published the article Against “conservative leftism” : Why reactionary responses to neoliberalism fail...
A Nurse Witness to the Genocide in Gaza
"When I look at the faces I treat, I know every wound is a living testimony of the crimes being committed against us." Balsam Tayah Baslam treats a patient...
A Father from Gaza Who Lost His Home and Mother Amidst Warhborhood to the Unknown: Mahmoud’s Story
A Father from Gaza Who Lost His Home and Mother Amidst War Mahmoud Alnuaizi Gaza, in ruins The Beginning of the Nightmare: October 7, 2023 On the morning of...
"They also forbade us from dreaming"
Haya’s daughter baking bread in Al-Mawasi My name is Haya. I am 32 years old and a mother of three. I am one of thousands who have been displaced again and...
From the Rubble to Hope
by Hamza Mohammaed Hama Mohamed in Gaza In the heart of Gaza, where life has become a symbol of resilience and struggle, I was born twenty years ago, a young...
A vision for radical recomposition: post-neoliberal and anti-fascist perspectives
Buaidh | wikimedia commons Daphne Lawless, 28 February 2025 (revised 14 May 2025) One of my political heuristics is that New Zealand politics is five years...
Ahmad and Samar's Journey to a Better Future
My name is Ahmad Johar, a 25-year-old, Palestinian from Gaza. I have lived through 5 wars in the Gaza Strip, each one harder than the previous, but the...
One Should Not Camouflage Capitalist and Imperialist China as “Socialist”
Variants of Chinese Type 07 military camouflage | Ultrasunyuan on wikimedia commons Reprint of a Spectre article by Michael Pröbsting. Every historic period...
Help Hasan & Duaa Rebuild Their Lives
Hasan & Duaa’s gofundme is available here Deep within the alleys of Gaza, a life story full of pain and challenges unfolded, where the heart of a young man...
Lana from Gaza: A Voice from the Rubble
Image from Lana Mohanad. This article by Lana Mohanad is part of a series highlighting voices from Gaza, supported by Feijoa Dispatch and FightBack. My name...
Victory! Articles on the Syrian Revolution
Image from Rafaela Gaspar for Fightback Fightback supports the Syrian Revolution, and we are thrilled to see the toppling of Bashar al-Assad, after 13 long...
How NZ First became the party of the conspiracist "freedom movement"
Winston Peters on Reality Check Radio (wikimedia commons) Byron Clark A few months before the 2023 election, Charlie Mitchell and Katie Kenny of Stuff asked...
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...