Weaponising Progress
https://neoliberalistan.net/2022/12/08/weaponising-progress/
‘Green Wall Street’: on the extractivist co-option of ecological politics
Where its capacity to betray any alleged values is concerned, the Australian Labor Party rarely disappoints. Since coming to power in the federal election in May, the ALP has once…
Culture wars defend the minority of the opulent from the majority
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In this latest Australian election cycle, history repeats itself with increasing intensity as policy debate is relegated to a relic of history in favour of strategies of dissembling, distraction and…
A world of slaves under his eye: totalitarian attacks on reproductive justice
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Murdoch and the IPA Politicise Freedom in Battlelines for Next Year’s Elections
Ongoing protests over Victorian state government lockdowns and vaccine mandates are emerging as fodder for ‘moral panic’ feeding into the 2022 Australian election cycle. A strategy as old as the…
Challenging the entrepreneurial discourse around women home-based workers’ empowerment
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Liberal Capitalism is Dead
As the radical historian Rudolf Rocker noted in the years prior to WWII, the promise of equality before the law under liberal democracy was shipwrecked on the rocks of class…