Weaponising Progress
Living the values articulated in speech has never been a strong suit of progressive forces, much less to say the…
Category: Writing
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…
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…
Marxism against Marxism
Well, it’s that time once again for ‘Marxism vs. Anarchism’ debates, and the further polarising of the left. This essay…
Completing the democratic revolution
In the global North, we are indoctrinated from an early age in the ideological morés of liberal capitalist electoralism, the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ideological coping mechanisms in the end-times
End of days-type periods are hardly unknown throughout history; the fact that empires rise and fall is a truism, a…