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What is Socialism All About?

Peter Lamb | November 29, 2022

One of the many things we can learn from the recent elections in the United States is that the socialist revival which began there a few years ago, spearheaded first by Bernie Sanders in the Senate and then by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) in the House, has by no means run out of steam. The [...]

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Labour, Value and Time: The Disabled Worker in the Academy

Elizabeth Humphrys | Jess Rodgers | November 22, 2022

Marta Russell (1951-2013), the US based writer, activist and leading critical thinker, argued that disability was not a medical condition or impairment, but a ‘socially created category derived from labor relations, a product of the exploitative economic structure of capitalist society’. [...]

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Alex Callinicos, Making History: Agency, Structure and Change in Social Theory

Brett Heino | November 15, 2022

One of the grand traditions of the Past & Present Reading Group is “the pitch.” As we near the end of our current text, those who have engaged with it are given the opportunity to nominate the next book that the group will tackle. At risk of doing an injustice to any selfless members of the [...]

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The Politics of Global Competitiveness

Paul Cammack | November 8, 2022

I published a book in 1997 – Capitalism and Democracy in the Third World. Now The Politics of Global Competitiveness  is the sequel. The first one was a critique of what was known as political development theory, arguing that it was entirely ideological in character. While writing it, I had [...]

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Recording of Wheelwright 2022: Jessica Whyte, ‘Economic Coercion and Financial War’

Lynne Chester | November 2, 2022

The 15th Annual E.L. 'Ted' Wheelwright Memorial Lecture, hosted by the Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, together with the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) and the Political Economy Student Society (ECOPSoc), was delivered by Jessica Whyte on Wednesday [...]

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Can divestment save us?

Swapnik Sanagavarapu | November 1, 2022

In recent years, the climate movement has adopted a strategy of pressuring institutions to divest from their holdings of fossil fuel related shares. Divestment is certainly an enticing proposition for otherwise powerless activists – the idea that such a simple financial decision could [...]

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Who wins and who loses from renewable energy transition?

Gareth Bryant | Devleena Ghosh | Priya Pillai | October 25, 2022

The crisis engulfing global energy markets is accelerating the turn to renewable energy, as wind and solar technologies are presented as the solution to all manner of social, political and economic problems. The European Union is looking to renewables as the answer to rapidly rising gas [...]

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Shortlist For The 2022 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize

Maria Tanyag | October 24, 2022

The selection committee for the Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2022 prize, as voted on by AIPEN members.

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