The untold history of armistice and the end of World War I
Submitted by Jared on Nov 10 2018 04:20
‘The best antidote to ideology is detail,’ writes Paul Mason. And the detail that’s missing this Armistice Day is that working people, when they take power into their own hands, can end whatever catastrophe is imposed on them.
Living The Dream with the National Disability Insurance Scheme Ep 2
Submitted by With Sober Senses on Sep 28 2018 01:21
The second Living The Dream episode on the National Disability Insurance Scheme. This time we chat about how it has impacted those working in the sector and the shape and dynamics of care work. Hosted at The Word From Struggle Street
Living The Dream wth the Communist Party of Australia and Indigenous Struggles during the 1920s and 1930s.
Submitted by With Sober Senses on Aug 22 2018 23:37
What's the relationship between labour struggles against capitalism and Indigenous struggles against colonialism? How has Marxist and communist theory traditionally tried to understand this relationship? This episode of Living the Dream from The Word With Struggle Street examines these questions by looking at the Communist Party of Australia in the 1920s and 30s and its relationship, or lack there of, with Indigenous struggles.
Living The Dream with The Maritime Defence Committee during the 1998 Wharf Dispute
Submitted by With Sober Senses on Jul 10 2018 06:20
It's been 20 years since the MUA dispute. What went on and what lessons are there for class struggle today.
This is the latest episode of Living The Dream hosted by The Word From Struggle Street
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
Socialist Labor Party pamphlets
Pamphlets of the Socialist Labor Party adapted from
https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/s/soc_labor.htm
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.
