Australian Issues
Howard’s Grave Diggers - Michael Connors writes on Australian unions and their challenges
The Gap Between Work and Choice - David Peetz analyses Work Choices and its effects on workers
The Workers Audit -
An audit of Qld finances by a group of "angry workers" to expose the
inaccuracies and misrepresentations in the current (July 2012) Qld Govt
audit of finances
Socialism/Marxism
Why Socialism? - Albert Einstein’s Monthly Review article expressing his belief in socialism
The Tempest of History - Terry Eagleton's engaging article on the need for socialism
Does Ecology Need Marx? - Martha Jimenez writes about the ecology and Marxism
Revolution is the Only Answer - An interview with John Bellamy Foster on ecology and Marxism
Why Socialism Did Not Fail - Sharat Lin analyses why socialism did not fail in the USSR
Wage Robbery - or How Surplus Value is made - A
short article published in a 1965 edition of the BLF journal,
explaining surplus value and class politics. An excellent example of
political education in a workers journal.
Problems and Analysis of Capitalism
Speculation in Iron Ore Prices
- A two part article in Spiegel Online from 1st June, 2010 on the
speculation in iron ore prices being driven by multinational iron-ore
miners in Australia and the finance capital behind them - and the
danger that this could lead to another dangerous "speculative bubble"
Marx's Economics: A Dual theory of value and growth ? - from a book chapter by Michio Morishima
What Keeps Capitalism Going? - Michael Lebowitz’ essay on why capitalism continues to grow
Somewhere a Banker Smiles - Joe Bageant writes about the wealthy, ruling elite under capitalism
The Capitalist Workday - Michael Lebowitz writes about work under capitalism and socialism
Housework Under Capitalism - Cindy L’Hirondelle examines the free labour of housework
State, Capital and Economic Policy - Chapter 1 State Management of Labour Power - an extract from the book by Suzanne de Brunhoff
State, Capital and Economic Policy - Chapter 2 State Management of Money - an extract from the book by Suzanne de Brunhoff
Gold: Durability of a Barbarous Relic - an essay by Peter Cochrane in 1981 on gold as a measure of value.
From the Gold Standard to the Floating Dollar Standard - an essay by Ramaa Vasudevan from Colorado University in 2008, - an appraisal in the light of Marx's Theory of Money.
Employees each mine a $1 million seam - an
extract from an article in the Australian Financial Review, May 2011 by
Adrian Rollins on the capital generated by each mining worker in
Australia
Book Reviews, Art & Culture
Still Working - Review of the book, Modern Times, Ancient Hours, by Pietro Basso
Revolutionary Art - Dedication speech by Mike Alewitz for the Labor Art and Mural Project
Dialectics for the New Century - Introduction to new Bertell Ollman book on dialectics
|
