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…
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 statement of the banal. We live in one such period…
The pathological entitlement of the supremacist
Originally published at Counterpunch. In recent days, the CPAC conference has brought us a number of most unusual spectacles. It has brought us (1) the militantly tawdry respawning of Donald…
Liberal Capitalism is Dead
From its beginnings out of the European Enlightenment, Liberal capitalism was based on a promise of progress through justice predicated on equality before the law. In light of the fact…