A woman’s place is in the revolution
Nina Stacks reviews ‘Inconvenient Women: Australian radical writers 1900-1970’ by Jacqueline Kent and finds early writers faced familiar challenges.
Theory
Winning union elections won’t deliver socialism
Martin Greenfield responds to Daniel Friedman’s call for rank-and-file union tickets to capture the Labor Party for socialism.
Why a citizen army is relevant today
With the world seemingly headed towards a generalised war, Marcus Strom argues that democratic self-defence is our best option.
New ‘feudalism’, or capitalism renewed
Sally Ly from the Vietnam Marxists group looks at Yanis Varoufakis’s compelling thesis but finds it wanting.
Iran: a US war of imperial decline
Yassamine Mather examines the US war on Iran through the lens of American decline, warning that our enemy’s enemy is not our friend.
Iran and the US economy
Donald Trump has released an economic genie with his war on Iran. British Marxist economist Michael Roberts looks at repercussions for the US economy.
Capitalism fuels the cost-of-living crisis
Clever government reforms or inspired Treasurers can’t fix capitalism’s economic malaise. It’s hardwired into the system, says Don Sutherland.
Albanese still ‘living within the lie’
After the ‘rupture’ in international affairs described by Canadian PM Mark Carney’s ‘truth bombs’, Hamish McPherson calls for a working-class foreign policy.
Beyond spontaneity: why workers need a plan
A Marxist organisation needs a political program which contains both minimum demands and a maximum vision of the future.
Universal Basic Income and the left
ALP activist Alex Rooney raises concerns that support for a UBI focuses on state distribution at the expense of workers’ control of production.
Europe’s debt, war and decline
Australia’s ruling elite seems hopelessly tied to London and Washington. Abe David argues its time to cut the apron strings.
Historic achievement of Karl Marx
Karl Kautsky – before he became a ‘renegade’ – outlines here that Marx’s great achievement was uniting theory with the labour movement. We need that again.