Divisions in the Core of Global Capitalism? Italian Labour and ‘Free Trade’

Andreas Bieler | August 4, 2026

A focus on the mobilisation against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations between the EU and Mercosur and its implications for trade unions and other members of the labour movement broadly defined such as social movements and environmental groups.

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Geoengineering, climate overshoot and the politics of climate repair

Adam David Morton | July 28, 2026

When: 1 September, 12:00-1:30 pm

Where: Room 441, Social Sciences Building (A02), University of Sydney

Speaker: Dr Natasha Heenan

Following decades of climate denial, obstruction and delay, we find ourselves in an “overshoot conjuncture” where the absence of a [...]

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When Violence Works: Capital Accumulation and Political Order in Colombia

Manuela Mahecha Alzate | July 7, 2026

Did Colombia achieve economic success despite armed conflict and paramilitary violence? Or were they part of the same political-economic order?

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The Bailout State

Martijn Konings | June 30, 2026

How did we end up in a world where social programs are routinely cut in the name of market discipline and fiscal austerity, yet large banks get bailed out whenever they get into trouble?

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Japan’s New Arms Exports Double Down on a Broken Economic Model

Luciano Carment | June 24, 2026

What are the paradoxes at the heart of the "new" Japanese arms trade?

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