The Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney recently hosted a one-day conference on the Productivity Commission (PC). However, before proceeding to outline the activities, debates and interventions at the conference—with papers from the conference to be published, subject [...]
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The recent departure of the late Eduardo Galeano, author of the classic Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America), highlights more than ever, especially since the late 1990s, that Latin America has been at the forefront of experiments with alternatives to [...]
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In the first post of this series of three, Laurence Cox focused broadly on social movements and Marxism in ‘Thinking Marxism and Social Movements’. This second in the series aims to highlight and detail how we try, in our book We Make Our Own History, to offer a substantial [...]
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Hundreds of thousands of chiefly white middle class protesters took to the streets in Brazil on 15 March in an organised upsurge of hatred against the federal administration led by President Dilma Rousseff of the Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT). These [...]
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Melinda Cooper (University of Sydney), ‘Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism’
This is the fourth seminar in the series organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
Date and Location:
16 April 2015, Darlington Centre [...]
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The rule of law is often presented as preferable to the rule of men or the rule of force, and in the last couple of decades has become a central part of the common sense of global politics; an unquestioned statement about the world in which we live. To understand its appeal we need to [...]
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This is the first of three linked blog posts outlining the argument of We Make Our Own History: Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism, available from Pluto at a discount using the code “COX”.
We Make Our Own History – a book that took Alf Gunvald Nilsen and [...]
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As a part of the conference on ‘Financialisation, Crisis, Social Protests and Development Alternatives in Southeast Europe’, held at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara (14-15 February 2014), I had an opportunity to think and discuss on the context, potentials and limits of the [...]
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