A Green Agenda Panel at the recent Historical Materialism Australasia 2015: Reading Capital, Class & Gender Today conference at University of Sydney (17–18 July) was chaired by Hall Greenland with speakers Ariel Salleh, Terry Leahy and Anitra Nelson.
My paper — a shortened version [...]
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In the 7th Annual Wheelwright Lecture, in September 2014, Leo Panitch let forth against the likes of David Harvey and Wolfgang Streek — including many in the audience — and stated the following, available in the Journal of Australian Political Economy:
It is important we not get [...]
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We’re all that’s left —
the ones parties would expel
for self-criticism,
the ones unions would quell
because we challenged,
the ones who knew always
that we were shitting
in our own nest,
the ones who presented the moral [...]
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In general, the laws of capitalism protect the interests of property owners and big bosses, particularly the one per cent. As capitalism expands and intensifies, the laws multiply. Writers have difficulty claiming copyright and earning their just rewards. Australian federal court judges [...]
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Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century was the diving off point for the opening session of the recent Historical Materialism Australasia 2014 conference in Sydney. Valuably, Piketty exposes increasing economic inequality, highlights the burgeoning filthy rich and argues that deep [...]
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