Monthly Archive: January 2012

30 Jan

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From Global Justice to Occupy Everywhere

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Overland Journal has produced a special online edition, discussing the Occupy movement. Elizabeth has an article on the antecedents to Occupy in the Global Justice Movement and the Zapatista uprising.

Filed under: Anti-capitalism

26 Jan

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Invasion Day

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A number of myths have shaped Australia’s national identity in profound ways. The possibility of a vast inland sea saw many early settlers search the interior of the country unfruitfully, often meeting an untimely death. The kernel of this myth was a 1798 report to the Colonial Office by First Fleet botanist Joseph Banks: It […]

Filed under: Indigenous politics, racism

16 Jan

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Chris Berg’s libertarian dreaming. Or, when ‘liberty’ for the few means tyranny for the many

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General Augusto Pinochet — champion of liberty Do you remember 1989? That was the year that a series of East European Communist regimes fell in the context of a wave of popular protest. It was a tremendously inspiring time, a real indication that ordinary people could be the subjects, rather than objects, of history. But […]

Filed under: neoliberalism, state

10 Jan

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New revolutionary rehearsals. Part two: From democratic to social revolution

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Bolivia’s water wars  SPECIAL GUEST POST BY COLIN BARKER In the last post we published the first half of Colin Barker’s new introduction to the South Korean edition of Revolutionary Rehearsals, looking at the trend towards ‘velvet revolutions’ or ‘negotiated transitions’ in the neoliberal era. In the second half he looks at how the contradictions of the neoliberal […]

07 Jan

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New revolutionary rehearsals. Part one: The limits of neoliberal ‘democratisation’

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SPECIAL GUEST POST BY COLIN BARKER For those of us drawn to Marxist politics in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collection of essays edited by Colin Barker called Revolutionary Rehearsals was a brilliant riposte to ideas that history had ended with the victory of liberal capitalism and that “there is […]