Cross-posted at the Left Flank blog at Overland Journal What does the change in leadership of the Australian Greens mean for Left politics? At one level it would be easy to write off the shift as largely irrelevant, proof that there is an essential continuity in the party’s drift into the mainstream. Given Christine Milne’s […]
13 Apr
Comments Off on You are not who I thought you were: Race and ‘The Hunger Games’
This post was first published at Overland Journal earlier this week. In high school my English teacher gave advanced reading to students who were keen, and the first novel was To Kill A Mockingbird. Harper Lee’s book is a story of racism in the American South, as everyone knows, but it also included a salutary lesson […]
17 Mar
Comments Off on Call for papers: Historical Materialism Australasia mini-conference 2012
Following on from last year’s successful Capital Against Capitalism conference, this year will see the first official Historical Materialism Australasia mini-conference, to be held in Sydney on Saturday 21 July. Below is the call for papers. The website for the conference can be found here. The website for the Historical Materialism journal and book series can be found here. Historical Materialism Australasia […]
31 Dec
Comments Off on 12 months
Happy New Year to all our readers. Thank you for you thoughts and comments on Left Flank, in what was a year of revolutions and a return to politics from below in many corners of the world. Of course we’re not all politics here, just mostly, so here are other parts of our last 12 months […]
10 Jan
Comments Off on New year at the left flank and some little changes we’re making around here
We wanted to take this opportunity to wish all our readers a Happy New Year, and to thank you for reading, commenting on and getting interested in Left Flank in 2010. Starting just before the federal election was called in July, we’ve been very excited to get such a big reception and to see our […]
14 Apr
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