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Hone Harawira's Farewell Speech to Parliament Publication information Becoming a sustaining subscriber Table of Subscriptions to Fightback are avail- able for $20 a year, this covers the costs Contents of printing and postage. At present the writing, proof reading, layout, and 3 Editorial distribution is all done on a volun- teer basis. To make this publication 4 MANA and resistance to the next National sustainable long term we are asking for government people to consider becoming ‘Sustain- ing subscribers’ by pledging a monthly 6 Where next: Reflections on a defeat p6 amount to Fightback (suggested $10). Sustaining subscribers will be send a 7 free copy of each of our pamphlets to Hone Harawira’s farewell speech to Parliament thank them for their extra support. 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To financially support us please deposit to 38-9002-0817250-01 with your initials and surname (or anony- mous.) Large and small, regular and one-off donations are all appreciated and listed in Fightback from time to time. Fightback magazine is now in its 20th year as we continue the long-term fight for socialism. Readers and supporters may consider re- membering us in their will with assets or money that will help the struggle in the long-term. If this is you please put in your will ‘Fight- back, PO Box 10-282, Dominion Road, Auckland’ as well as what you would like to leave to us. 2 Fightback Issue 7 2014 Editorial Over the last few months, the organisation itself becomes a mainstream media has run a problem, if it comes to mean consistent smear campaign defending abusive behaviour. About against the MANA Move- This is another reason we need ment. As outlined in Nicky our own platforms; our own Fightback Hager’s Dirty Politics, media press, blogs, or own media. We led by the likes of Cameron need spaces to sincerely address Slater attack leading progres- problems of the left, not to tear Under our current system, democracy sive leaders in an attempt to comrades down, but to improve consists of a vote every 3 years. Most demoralise the base. While our work. of our lives are lived under dictator- Hone Harawira has long been The internet and social media ship, the dictatorship of bosses and treated as a threat, his team- offers unique opportunities. WINZ case managers. Fightback ing up with Kim Dotcom The internet is not a magic fix; stands for a system in which our offered special opportunities problems include surveillance, workplaces, our schools, our universi- for attack. Although there are the digital divide, and self-per- ties are run democratically, for social legitimate reasons to criticise petuating networks. We need need rather than private profit. Kim Dotcom’s involvement, as engagement in a range of forms, Fightback participates in the MANA Editorial a misogynistic profiteer, we including kanohi te kanohi (face Movement, whose stated mission is must see mainstream media at- to face) and paper publica- to bring “rangatiratanga to the poor, tacks on Dotcom for what they tions on the street. However the powerless and the dispossessed.” are; a xenophobic attack on a the internet has seen relative Capitalism was imposed in Aotearoa class traitor who sided with an media post-scarcity, in terms of through colonisation, and the fight indigenous fighter. content if not necessarily access. for indigenous self-determination is This brand of attack politics is In principle, anyone with an intimately connected with the fight increasingly displacing criti- internet connection can start for an egalitarian society. We also cal investigation. As covered a blog or post commentary on maintain an independent Marxist elsewhere in this issue (pX-X), social media. Fightback aims to organisation outside of parliament, to backdoor privatisation of public play a positive and critical role offer a vision of a world beyond the and Maori-owned media is one in this media ecosystem. parliamentary capitalist system. of a spectrum of tactics that Fightback recently launched Fightback stands against all forms of undermine critical journalism. Fightback Voices, a blog of oppression. We believe working-class In addition to defending public discussion documents for our power, the struggle of the majority media, we need a partisan organisation. Any member can for self-determination, is the basis media, one that stands with submit a discussion document, for ending all forms of oppression. the oppressed and the fighters and these propose courses of However, we also recognise that daily against the continued en- action for the organisation inequities such as sexism must be trenchment of routine brutality. as a whole, to be voted on at addressed here and now, not just after This is not to say socialists and twice-annual conferences. We the revolution. other progressives should be also participate in the MANA Fightback is embedded in a range of immune from criticism. There Movement, including the struggles on the ground; including are genuine problems in our newly launched MANA News building a fighting trade union move- movements that need to be website. ment, movements for gender and addressed. Sometimes the need sexual liberation, and anti-racism. to defend a ‘community’ or Fightback also publishes a monthly magazine, and a website, to offer Coordinating Editors Layout: a socialist perspective on ongoing Daphne Lawless, Ian Joel Cosgrove struggles. Anderson Assisting Editors Monthly magazine published Fightback stands for struggle, solidar- Proofing/Content Wei Sun, Kelly Pope, by: Fightback ity and socialism. Bronwen Beechey Grant Brookes, Byron Fightback Issue 7 2014, Vol.2, No 7, Issue No 16 Clark Fightback Issue 7 2014 3 MANA Movement MANA and resistance to the next National government Fightback is committed to the MANA politician”, said to be “even more popu- Zealand Election Survey, non-voters are Movement, however we are still in the lar” than he was three years ago. predominantly young, poor and Brown. process of assessing the 2014 elec- National won 61 seats in Parliament – John Key’s talk of focusing on “the toral defeat and future prospects. Grant enough to govern alone, based on the economy” is code for helping the rich Brookes (Fightback/MANA Poneke) provisional count. get richer. The suffering of the million offers one perspective. non-voters will increase. The election turnout, at 77 percent, appeared slightly higher than the 74 Four years of confrontation over nation- al standards, Novopay, charter schools Recently MANA leaders Hone percent of registered electors who cast a and executive principals have turned Harawira and Annette Sykes toured vote in 2011. But fewer people regis- teachers – especially those belonging the country, talking with members and tered to vote this time. So the percent- to the NZEI union – into implacable supporters about where next for the age of the population who voted in 2014 opponents of this Government. Key’s Movement after the election. is much the same as in 2011. That was the lowest election turnout since 1887. plan for further “education reform” is a The media called it a “landslide recipe for even greater tension. Lining Of the 3.4 million eligible voters victory” for National, a up ACT pup David Seymour for the as- in New Zealand, just over a “catastrophe” for the sociate education portfolio could be one million of them wanted opposition. John provocation too many. Key was labelled three more years of Key has also signalled “the biggest a “rock star National. But over 2.3 million – 70 percent of shake-up of the State Sector so far”. the people – didn’t vote This will mean renewed privatisation for that. and attacks on public sector workers. So teachers could be joined in struggle by John Key does not other groups – like nurses, who enter have the support of negotiations for a new national collec- the majority of New tive agreement in November. Zealanders. And popular opposi- The coalition deal with the Māori Party tion to National will ensure that some of the lucrative appears to be fruit carved off the state sector will solidifying. go to Māori service providers, widen- ing the rift between the favoured few There is the poten- around the tribal elites and the sufferers tial for resistance, at the flaxroots. leading to a change of Government in New anti-union laws set to be rammed 2017. Where will the through before the end of the year will resistance come from? deepen the divide between the Govern- ment and organised workers. Workers John Key has already outlined could expect to have to fight for their his three primary targets for rights after the election, said Council of the next National Govern- Trade Unions president Helen Kelly. ment: “the economy, reform- ing the education system and Key has also said he expects rapid changing the New Zealand progress on signing the unpopular Trans flag” (http://www.3news.
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