Weaponising Progress
Living the values articulated in speech has never been a strong suit of progressive forces, much less to say the anti-capitalist left. Proof of this fact abounds amongst the global…
Culture wars defend the minority of the opulent from the majority
Originally published at Counterpunch If dispassionate debate of ideas is the theoretical means by which policy is formed in liberal democracies, in these increasingly hostile and desperate conditions of late…
Culture war and conspiracism as election strategy
Originally published at Overland 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…
Totalitarian attacks on reproductive justice
Originally published on Counterpunch Reproductive justice has always been a bugbear for reactionaries and totalitarians. A woman who enjoys bodily autonomy and controls her own womb is free of the…
Marxism against Marxism
Well, it’s that time once again for ‘Marxism vs. Anarchism’ debates, and the further polarising of the left. This essay queries the necessity of this approach. It does so not…
Completing the democratic revolution
In the global North, we are indoctrinated from an early age in the ideological morés of liberal capitalist electoralism, the basis for what Francis Fukuyama infamously described as the ‘end…
Rising above the thinking behind Climate Change: World-Ecology and Worker’s Control
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them.” – Albert Einstein In even attempting to enter discussion around global warming, we are immediately confronted…
Murdoch and the IPA Politicise Freedom in Battlelines for Next Year’s Elections
Originally published on Counterpunch. 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…
Challenging the entrepreneurial discourse around women home-based workers’ empowerment
This article explores dominant entrepreneurship discourse and practice surrounding informal women home-based workers, and their relationship to goals of individual empowerment. We argue that conventional neoliberal entrepreneurship discourse conflates empowerment…
The personal is political. The private isn’t
As Carol Hanisch pointed out in her eponymous 1970 essay, the personal is political. Many of not most or all of the issues and problems women face within the personal…