The End of Capitalism: Ooh La La

Nina Eichacker | May 27, 2020

Run the Jewels dropped a video for their new single “Ooh La La” on April 27th, 2020, and in the days since I’ve watched and rewatched the video more than 16 times, not counting several stretches of listening to the single on repeat. It would be lying to say it hasn’t driven me to [...]

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A Four-Day Week with No Pay Cut: For a Workers’ Answer to Unemployment

Janet Burstall | May 25, 2020

The most optimistic assessment by the Reserve Bank is that it will take a “few years” to reverse “much” (i.e. not all) of the increase in unemployment from the Covid-19 lockdown. The wages vs jobs trade-off debate is back with a vengeance.

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COVID Life and the Asset Economy

Lisa Adkins | Martijn Konings | May 20, 2020

Following the 2007/08 financial crisis the creation of a less unequal and fairer world appeared to be a major prospect. As is by now all too familiar, after the financial crisis, instead of becoming more progressive, societies turned out to be more unequal, with inequalities and asset-based [...]

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Jack Mundey: Why the inspiration lives on

Lee Rhiannon | May 18, 2020

In the early 1970s Jack Mundey led a union of builders labourers that took strike action and imposed bans on developments that were then worth around $5 billion. At the time, Jack and his union, the Builders Labourers Federation, were intensely vilified. Death threats were common. The BLF [...]

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Crown, Sceptre and Capital: State Capitalism and Monetary Sovereignty After Coronavirus

David Karas | May 14, 2020

Apparently, a virus named after a crown not only euthanized neoliberalism but also resuscitated the Nation-State. Some tremble at the sight of Leviathan, others hope to demolish a neoliberal fortress, which at its core, had always been a social slaughterhouse. After a decade which [...]

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History, Class Consciousness, and the Scandal of Philosophy

Cat Moir | May 6, 2020

The publication of Georg Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness in 1923 created a rift in the international Marxist movement unlike any other. The book challenged key tenets of an emerging Soviet orthodoxy, including the moratorium on ‘bourgeois philosophy’, the dogma of party [...]

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We have a world to win! Capitalism, coronavirus and the struggle for the new normal

Chris Hesketh | April 27, 2020

As another week in lockdown passes, people are understandably worried about their future. The economic results of this global pandemic are set to rival the Great Depression of the 1930s with the global economy predicted to contract by 3 percent according to the International Monetary Fund. [...]

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