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New Zealand cities have so many good things going for them, but they’re let down by inadequate housing and transport. Mouldy old homes rent for exorbitant sums. Traffic-clogged roads are unpleasant (or even unsafe) for anyone not in a car. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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Daphne Lawless reviews Feminist City: A Field Guide by Leslie Kern.
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In its fourth year of government, Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Ardern government continues in its failure to substantively deliver on its housing promises.
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Book title: Orbán: Europe’s New StrongmanAuthor: Paul LendvaiReleased: 2019Review by: Byron Clark While there has hardly been a shortage of strongman leaders for the right to admire in recent years, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has stood out. Last year Vox referred to him as “The American right’s favourite strongman”1 and British far-right figurehead Tommy…
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Book title: Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White SupremacyAuthor: Talia LavinReleased: 2020Review by: Will Howard Culture Warlords functions as a look at some hard truths of the world. It’s not very fun to be immersed in white supremacy, so I shy away from it. I let them have their corners, and…
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Book title: Troll Hunting: Inside the world of online hate and its human falloutAuthor: Ginger GormanReleased: 2019Review by: Karen Effie I like Ginger Gorman a lot. She would make a good, thoughtful friend. She’s open about her life and the difficulties she had with the book: the shaky boundaries between her and the trolls she…
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Book title: How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of ConflictEditors: Nina JankowiczReleased: 2020Review by: Daphne Lawless The authoritarian Russian state under Vladimir Putin is unquestionably an enemy of freedom and the working peoples of the world. It is hard not to cringe, though, when some American liberals try to…
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This article was written for Fightback’s magazine issue on the far right. Subscribe here. Written by Byron Clark. The UK based Hope Not Hate campaign have released their annual report on the state of far-right extremism. While the report’s focus in on Europe there is a New Zealand connection, with the report noting that the…
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This article was written for Fightback’s magazine issue on the far right. Subscribe here. Written by CA Monteath-Carr. In March of 2020, two nationalists and a libertarian sat down for “the ideological debate of the century: Conservatism vs Libertarianism.”1 The debate was not widely viewed, garnering less than a thousand views across YouTube, BitChute, and…
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This article was written for Fightback’s magazine issue on the far right. Subscribe here. Article by Byron Clark. On April 30, 2019, the website Right Minds, operated by Diewue de Boer, published an article headlined “Christian Man Threatened With Arrest For Anzac Day Sign”.1 The sign in question featured pictures of the man’s uncle accompanied…
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