Skint 1.5 Smashed Avo
Submitted by With Sober Senses on May 24 2018 05:31
The smashed avo has become symbolic of a standard of living: the bundle of commodities that form the historically necessary level for the reproduction of a large swathe of the working class in the last 10 or 20 years, and which increasingly seems untenable in the future. Moralising about the spending choices of the young is thus part of a disciplinary manoeuvre aimed at increasing the acceptance for a lower standard of living: whether that lowering of standards of living happens through the apparently neutral processes of the capitalist mode of production, or from direct attacks from capitalists.
Living The Dream with the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Submitted by With Sober Senses on Apr 13 2018 01:32
Latest Living The Dream podcast - this episode is on the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Living The Dream is hosted at The Word From Struggle Street
Why I am a communist
Eleanor Robertson on the need for a communist, as opposed to liberal or reformist, approach to fighting oppression. This post first appeared on Medium.
Intersectional Identity and the Path to Progress
Eleanor Robertson looks at the debate over intersectionality and identity politics, and what these concepts can offer for a renewed version of class politics. This article originally appeared in Meanjin.
Get mad and get even
Eleanor Robertson critiques liberal forms of feminism, and offers some suggestions for what a class-struggle approach could look like. This article first appeared in Meanjin Quarterly.
Anti-Shorten: The ALP is still selling bullshit
Submitted by With Sober Senses on Mar 13 2018 04:34
A critique of the rehashed social democracy of the Australian Labor Party. Republished from The Word From Struggle Street - an anticapitalist blog from Brisbane
New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism
This is the first book to compile workers’ struggles on a global basis, examining the formation and expansion of radical unions in the Global South and Global North.
Socialist Comment and Review
Socialist Comment - publication of Socialist Party of Australia; and Socialist Comment and Review, joint publication of Socialist Party of Australia and World Socialist Party of New Zealand
Socialism or Chaos
Pamphlet of the Socialist Party of Australia, a companion party of the World Socialist Movement, published around March 1948.
Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red
The history of the left is usually told as one of factionalism and division. This collection of essays casts new light to show how the boundaries between Marxism and anarchism have been more porous and fruitful than is conventionally recognised.
