Grid of posts 2×3

Being kind? The Ardern government and COVID-19

Much of the praise for the Ardern government’s reaction to COVID-19 is justified. However, the existing deep inequalities in society are at least being maintained, and at worst being deepened. Read more

September 8, 2020
“Lawmakers, not lawbreakers”: Jacindamania as a bastion of the Third Way

Jacinda Ardern represents a form of centrist politics that has failed to address the challenges of our time. Read more

September 1, 2020
Left Populism at the dead end: where to after Corbyn and Sanders?

Why has the “Left-populist” wave of electoral movements reached such a dead end? And was it a wrong direction to start with? Read more

August 25, 2020
How the far-right found a home in the New Conservative Party

Rather than ignoring the fringe blogging of a young man who said his party was not pushing climate change denial hard enough while dismissing every mainstream party as “socialist” and throwing in some barely hidden Islamophobia, Ikilei had specifically sought out de Boer. It may be that the politics of New Conservative are not as… Read more

June 12, 2020
Death Star PR: Is all corporate media propaganda?

This article was published in Fightback’s Media Issue. Subscribe to the magazine here. NOTE: During lockdown, we may only be able to send out the e-publication. This is an abridged transcription from an episode of the politics and pop-culture podcast Where’s My Jetpack: jetpack.zoob.net. The episode was originally released on the 19th of August, 2019.… Read more

May 15, 2020
“Was the Russian Revolution a Carrier-Pigeon Revolution?”: Digital media and communication in the Victorian Socialists

By Ian Anderson, RMIT Doctoral candidate in Media Studies. This article was researched and written before the COVID-19 outbreak and implementation of physical distancing measures, which have affected the relationship between ‘IRL’ and online organising. Like many organisations, the VicSocialists have shifted towards online videoconferencing, for both public events and internal discussions. This article is… Read more

May 6, 2020