The broad left party question after Syriza
Mick Armstrong revisits the question of broad left parties to draw some conclusions after the experience of Syriza in Greece.
Podemos and left populism
Omar Hassan analyses why the promise of a radical, democratic alternative to bourgeois parliamentary politics has evolved into a hierarchical party which has abandoned any serious pretence of fighting austerity even before being tested in government.
Marxism and the natural world
There is a logic inherent in the humanism of Marxism that generates an overarching commitment to environmental conservation. Michael Kandelaars documents Marx and Engels’ emphasis on seeing humans as part of nature and the need to live harmoniously with the natural world. Purchase the print edition to read this article.
Ordering Australian capitalism: property, fetishism, debt and social order
Ben Hillier shows how the economic ordering of Australian capitalism helps consolidate bourgeois hegemony. Purchase the print edition to read this article.
Cape York: a history of Aboriginal dispossession and resistance
Rebecca Barrigos brings together research by social and oral historians who have recorded a terrible history of Aboriginal oppression in Weipa, Aurukun and Mapoon on Cape York Peninsula. Purchase the print edition to read this article.
Australian unions and the fight for equal pay for women
Katie Wood draws together a rich history of working class struggle for equal pay for women. Unlike some historians who present equal pay as a "feminist" issue won by women's mobilisations against men's resistance, she shows that it has been a union issue since the nineteenth century.
Radical Chinese labour in Australian history
Liam Ward has assembled a remarkable history of struggle by Chinese workers in Australia which has mostly been ignored or misrepresented.
Indonesian independence and Australian imperialism
Sam Pietch looks at the response of Australian governments, both Liberal and Labor, to the challenge of Indonesian independence in what they regard as their "backyard".