The establishment media wants it one way, and the populist left another. Why is there so little straight reporting on Latin America?
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The future of democracy depends on developing a left-wing populism that can revive public interest by mobilising political passions in the fight for an alternative to neoliberal de-democratisation.
Australia has become less compassionate, more punitive and more ready to blame individuals for their alleged failings since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
With more and more street artists partnering with corporations, it’s important that they don’t compromise their moral standing to earn a living.
A surprise near-tie has put everyone in Argentine politics on high alert. Is the Kirchner legacy in danger?
The next step in South African students’ fight against high university fees could be taken beyond campuses. The final battle will be fought at the country’s National Treasury and Reserve Bank.
Could the surge of worker and popular resistance worldwide provide the global trade union movement with an opportunity to take the lead in developing a broad coalition of social forces?
By championing economic growth, the Sustainable Development Goals are a barely disguised defence of the market fundamentalism that underpins business-as-usual. But in an age of planetary limits, sustained economic growth is not the solution to our social and environmental ills, but their cause.
To make a meaningful difference to climate change, businesses will have to break out of a cycle of exploiting the earth’s resources in ever-more creative ways.
Christopher Wright speaks with Canadian journalist, author and activist Naomi Klein about capitalism's impact on the environment and how it has influenced our responses to climate change.
Abbott’s claim that people in remote communities are making a “lifestyle choice” reveals an underlying view that social circumstances are the responsibility of individuals, rather than societies.
After years of austerity, European citizens are organising resistance and voting against the politics of fear. Will they learn from Latin America’s painful experience?
David Cameron has told company bosses that firms should give their staff a pay rise. Certainly a raise in wages would be long overdue. The small average wage increase over the past year or so (1.8% between…
The revelation of the leaked Luxembourg tax files and the related reporting of the extent of the tax avoidance industry in the UK should come as little surprise. Tax legislation, and its enforcement in…
Are we consumers or are we citizens? Clearly most of us are both. In a capitalist economy people get much of what they need through competitive markets. Yet we also live within a society and have reasonable…
Sovereign debt, crises and default have been regular features of the Argentine economy for years – but the latest debt crisis, involving the government and the so-called “vulture funds”, has thrown up…
The most important finding in the final report of the Royal Commission into the Home Insulation Program is the one the Abbott government is least likely to heed. One of the two crucial flaws Commissioner…
If you want to know why we in the UK see more security cameras on street corners than other nations, and why politicians are fending off accusations of spying on their own citizens, then turn your eyes…
We propose things which people regard as being on the edge of lunacy. The next thing you know they’re on the edge of policy. – Madsen Pirie, President of the Adam Smith Institute, 1987 In a speech in London…
The complex web of teacher trade unionism in the UK is about to become even more convoluted and competitive. One of the headteacher unions, the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), has announced…
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Politics, Massey University
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Emerita Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Adelaide
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Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor of Political Economy, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor, Social Work, Dalhousie University
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Dean, Institute of Human and Social sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Birmingham City University
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Professor of Global Politics, University of Southampton
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Postgraduate Associate at the Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor in American & Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Brock University
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Professor of Organisational Studies, University of Sydney
