For many observers of American politics, the rise of Donald Trump has been a thoroughly discombobulating experience. A generation of analysts, brought up on a diet of Washington Consensus policies, could be confident that the Republican Party pre-Trump was neoliberal in the strict sense. [...]
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Something had changed. For years, Wollongong had been a place without hope, without purpose. Empty warehouses, boarded up factories, vacant blocks of land where once had stood thriving plants – these dotted the town’s landscape, a landscape still dominated by the steelworks, the vast [...]
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Fear. It pervades the modern political scene, sinking its way into every pore of the body politic. It is impossible to comprehend the upsurge of right-wing populism in the United States, Europe and recently South America unless one also understands the constituent role played by fear. One [...]
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… Here lies in ruin
The masterpiece of gods, the tower of Asia.
To her defence allies had come from far,
From the nine mouths of frozen Tanäis,
And from the birthplace of the dawn, where Tigris
Pours his hot stream into the ruby sea;
Hither had come [...]
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The law oppresses us and tricks us, The wage slave system drains our blood; The rich are free from obligation, The laws the poor delude.
— The Internationale adaptation of Charles H. Kerr translation from the original.
As these lines from The Internationale so graphically [...]
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There are few components of a capitalist society that penetrate as deeply and pro-foundly into the lives of the people as law. Whole swathes of social life, ranging from the labour–capital relationship, the make-up of the family, the regulation of crime and the relationship of citizens to [...]
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It is hard to escape the feeling that, for better or for worse, we are living in a transitional age. Capitalism remains on its feet, but is looking ever more unsteady as neoliberalism proves incapable of providing durable economic growth and good jobs. A particularly lethal cocktail of [...]
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