The long-delayed publication of the Iraq Inquiry fundamentally undermined the British government’s political, legal and strategic justifications for backing the US-led invasion of Iraq and highlighted former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s role in the run-up to the war. The media’s portrayal of [...]
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If all good progressive reasons for more Europe have slowly disintegrated in the ongoing austerity drive of the Eurozone, there is still the argument that you simply can’t go it alone in a globalised world. Climate change, migration, security and tax evasion serve as the killer [...]
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In my recent article in Critical Sociology I explore the role that passive revolution has played in the process of subnational state formation in Chiapas, Mexico. The concept of passive revolution, formulated by Antonio Gramsci in his Prison Notebooks, has been used by a variety of scholars [...]
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Opponents of the Iraq war often highlight the importance of oil when explaining why the invasion took place. While leaders at the time denied it was a motivation there is no doubt the country’s huge oilfields did offer possible post-conflict opportunities for the Iraqi industry and [...]
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A new report by the Evatt Foundation provides valuable information on the distribution of wealth in Australia. At a time when the major Australian political parties are clearly taking different positions on the importance of economic inequality, this is timely. The conservative Coalition [...]
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As we face the increasingly visible rightward political shifts in the US and Europe and the ramifications of these shifts in Australia the question of ‘what can be done’, and in particular ‘what can be done to transform popular discontent into practices of emancipatory possibility’ [...]
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When the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was negotiated in 1947, it would have been essentially inconceivable to all those involved that when it was replaced by the World Trade Organization (WTO) 48 years later, the multilateral trading system constituted by the latter [...]
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Recently, economic growth as a policy goal has (again) become highly controversial. Not only are welfare economists increasingly questioning the universal merits of maximising growth, since more GDP does not seem to lead to better lives for most people, but environmentalists and ecological [...]
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