The United States of America currently lies stricken in multi-faceted economic, political and social crisis. More than 100,000 Americans have been killed by COVID-19 in a once-in-a-century pandemic. Unemployment has sky-rocketed, with over twenty million people now out of work. Widespread [...]
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Regulation Theory & Australian Capitalism: Rethinking Social Justice and Labour Law.
Please join Brett Heino, together with Joellen Riley Munton and Eugene-Schofield Georgeson, for the launch of the paperback version of his book Regulation Theory and Australian Capitalism: [...]
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Readers of Progress in Political Economy might at first wonder how a review of a book about criminal law and procedure in colonial New South Wales (NSW) found itself on this blog. However, anyone who reads Eugene Schofield-Georgeson’s By What Authority? Criminal Law in Colonial New [...]
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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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